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Qpython for android is very handy for getting an idea up and running quickly. There is a problem with its bluetooth permissions though which means that whenever any Bluetooth related function is run, a permissions error occurs. Sometimes the error message says something about Bluetooth requiring administrator permission to be used but in this case…
For a college project, I’m working on an automated product identification system for trolleys used in shops. As you can see from the above picture, this would involve mounting an antenna (attached to an RFID reader) on a trolley. All of the products in the shop would have small RFID tags on them and as…
In the last blog about communicating with the Intelleflex FMR-6000 RFID reader over a TCP/IP connection, I had a Python script sending a string and then printing the reader’s response. This opened up a lot of possibilities for doing interesting things like automating data readings and graphs. For an experiment, I wanted to place one…
This is the RFID reader that I am using for a college project. It can be quite labour intensive to make a lot of readings especially if the power is varied over time. The reader is connected to a computer via an ethernet cable. It has a fixed ip address that displays a webpage when…