First Look: RC522 RFID Reader/Writer ($4 on eBay)
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A first look at this RFID reader/writer module which can be bought for a few dollars on eBay. It's cheap but also quite complicated. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
The fact that this man has a magnifying glass and used it to actually zoom up rather than showing a completely blurry close up is worth a thumbs up alone
I built a Dalek once using RFID to identify it's master and guests. It had an airsoft cannon to pelt those who didn't "Identify" properly. It used a Raspberry Pi SBC for a main brain, an old Xbox Kinect for it's eyes and ears, and a bunch of micro-controllers for it's peripheral control systems.
That's dope asf tbh
#Whovian
Thanks for this Julian. This is helping me write a security system for my home where a person would scan an RFID tag to turn off the security features... while it is still all in the future: alarm, facial recognition and video documentation. This is all a hobby at this point, I'm just loving coming up with solutions for problems I want to crack.
love how you were able to show sources as to where you found each information step by step. A very helpful video. thank you
You've done an AMAZING job explaining this for a beginning hardware geek, like myself. Many thanks!!!
How much I love these of your tutorials! Thanks Julian.
This was one of the most concise and informative videos I've found on the use and management of these devices. It's given me a great first step and pointed me in the right direction to find out more. Thanks mate.
David Sharkey Thanks David
+Julian Ilett How can I deactivate a RFID chip?
You can't. There is no such "deactivation" in RFID Devices.
Disclosurer Radio Shouldn't reprogramming the chip with the wrong data accomplish your needs?
cut it in half lmao
Just randomly popped up in my recommended. I'm using this exact setup in my engineering class so thanks for the help. You probably just got me an A on my final.
Thanks for this extremely useful video! I've bought it with actually no clue on how to get it working, but now that i've seen your video i have much clearer information on how to use it! Thanks a lot. :)
Wonderful video, it gave me the perfect guidance as I set up my RC522 and began my RFID journey
most impressive instructions, made easier and simple. thank you. I will always keep watching and talking about your videos.
Beautiful in depth description. So great. Thank you!
Another really useful video. I too had a play with various cheap RFID, including the RC522. But in the end I settled on a PN532 based card, which is little more expensive, as it has compatibility with a greater range of tags, including NFC. Need more time to play with it though.
Hi Julian. Thanks for the stream of cool electronics you post :) Keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing this. I plan to try this out on reading microchipped animals for identification purposes.
Saw it on Seller alice1101983 and I do have it in my cart. Thanks for the short tutorial about it. As you said what to use it for other than the intended use. Put it on the bottom of a cup and data log your drinking habits. My first project with it is to datalog my life. Cheers
that is one hell of an awesome video, loved it. just got me one of those gonna try all kinds of automation things using nfc :)))
Thanks for that informative presentation. My own interest is to clone the RFID fob I have for entry into my apartment (which I've been informed will cost £60 if lost - apparently they need to "send an engineer" - lol).
better find where a controller is in your appartment. determine the model, find the manual, reset it to factory defaults, and program your own cards into it. you will end up with a master card which can be used to teach our own cards as regular entry keys. the master card or any teached in regular cards of your landlord will no longer work :) no extra hardware is required besides a couple of extra compatible cards. do not forget to give your new master card to your landlord after you end the rent.
Funky Dunky Why not just sell the masterkard to the most shady guy in the neighboorhood. You might get a bugs.
Always great watching your videos. Thanks!
Very good video! I don't think I've seen such an informative video from you recently, exploring something on a technical level and taking us along. I'm sure it's a lot of work to make, but hopefully you'll do something similarly in-depth every now and then... :)
OMG you just made my day, have been looking for an option for my garage...
Thanks for this great video - concise, and very useful
I particularly appreciate your approach to the problem using online ressources.
Thanks!
We have started to use them on our project: Automated Library Management System, wherein we would be using the tags for identifying book, tracking, security checks, smooth technical processing of the books, easy to locate books in library and also certain membership management techniques for library users.
I don't understand half of what I watched, but somehow I kept watching. Now at least I am more informed on RFIDs. Did not know they had a coil and chip inside them.
Haha! I just got these to play with as well. Got it all working and thought the same thing: I don’t know what I would practically use it for….
Thanks for the video!
Fantastic! Very in depth. Thx for your time..
Very interesting stuff. Have you used it to read any access cards of a coworker of friend? I wonder what kind of readable information you would see.? Nice job on this video, keep this kind of stuff coming.
The Dutch people who cracked it actually cracked the public transit card system by overwriting the cards with information about credit for public transit.
The balance information was saved on the chipkaart instead of on a central server?
Well you could use it for hidden doors or something like that - you could just put the electronics inside something - you could also add those rf-relay-buttons to it so you could control anything with it - youd need a way to power it tho
9v battery
This is interesting! Im planning to make an adoptation of this tech to our shared laundry room at my landlords houses. Or maybe some totaly unecessary stuff like a RFID startbutton to an old PC.
Outstanding and well done!
Link in description please! :)
I'm not too lazy to watch the video and look it up myself, but it would be nice to know exactly which one you've used. Great video! Thanks
You just gave me the best idea for a keycard based power button... get one of these, an arduino and a relay...
saved me trying - can use it the way I require
I would love a video that explains how to install one these say in a vehicle. Like the new cars that have the chip in the key. You could set the reader near the keys and only allow the car to start if the chip is in proximity. It sounds like a fun project and it could potentially keep your car a little safer from theft. If you really wanted to get clever you could install it on the power supply for the fuel pump rather then the ignition and place the reader under a cup holder or something so if you were parking your car in a bad area all you have to do is grab the chip outta the cup holder to disable the fuel pump. Just thinking out loud here but I could think of all kinds of fun things to do with rfid if it wasn't so complicated to set-up.
Please do more in depth videos about this it will be helpful.
Love this
It helps me know more about it
I wonder if I can use this to replace coin acceptor
Very interesting video. I always wondered what was in these little cards and chips. Thank you for your many interesting vids! BB
I bought a bunch of those blue RFID tags for my alarm system. Originally they were fine but over time they become very weak. You have to touch the alarm receiver in a very exact spot and with the flat side of the tag, otherwise it just won't work. Meanwhile the original tag (grey block) supplied with the alarm works fine. There's something definitely iffy about these blue ones.
love this channel!!!
Thanks!
Greatly appreciated!!
really good tutorial. thanks !!
Cool i just ordered 2 of these
Awesome Video and nice Information!!!
Thanks I learned stuff!
Julian, there are hundreds of uses for RFID tags, like for instance, chipping pets, (these are tiny glass capsules which are placed in the neck of a dog or a cat or other animals, and the chip ID can be read and pets are registered on a data base, so when lost and found they can be reunited with their owners, you could use them on cat flaps that reads the chip of your pet and only allows it the access to come into the house and other animals are denied access. You could mark your property, etc etc, I understand that such technology will be implemented on supermarket items such that a reader will read all the items in your trolley and produce a bill that you simply pay and walk out without having to take items out of your trolley on to a supermarket conveyor belt for scanning individual product.
You think they're going to put RFID tags on every banana ever sold?
Sure. They put stickers on all fruits now anyway. Why not a low cost RFID sticker just like the ones they put on other packages?
Skub Berson it’s not needed
Large retailers already use RFID for garment stock control. They can identify each garment as it comes in the back door and when sold. They can also tell if it gets nicked...
Can't believe there are so much information on just a 4 dollar thing.
Mechforce-USA Wait till they start to censor the internet!
Well done and explained thank you ;)
Thanks for sharing this. Just wondered would you be able to read data from any RFID tag?
Since you asked at the end of the video, you could use one of those to generate a grocery list if you hook it up inside your fridge. Then just write the information (name, type, expiry) and have it attached to the object so when it expires or is out of the fridge for a certain amount of time it would write it on a digital list for you to take to the grocery store. Even make it more advanced and have it search your fridge for ingredients when you find a recipe you want to make so you know If you have everything required!
Another idea I just had was if you felt like doing an air quality experiment but didn't feel like creating a webserver to compile the data to you could use a USB with a reader on it to read all your different stations and have them logged in that way.
love this arduino stuff
Great job!
Great video. I've worked with the exact same modules, but because their range is extremely low, I couldn't use them for my project. And at the end, you say it's complicated! Huh? These chips has lots and lots of awesome features. For example if you take multiple cards or tags close to it simultaneously, you can get the list of all of them and then decide which one do you want to communicate with. Or you can pace two modules in front of each other and have a wireless connection using NFC. Now, those are complicated buddy!
Just read the other posts and they have the same idea, well I shall continue on with the project.
Very nice. Thanks for the info. Don't know what to do with it but interesting know.
I know exactly what you mean about cryptanalysis papers Julian - I glaze over after the first couple of pages usually. I can recommend Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier though, even if you just use it as a reference. Also, you were right, The Imitation Game is definitely worth a watch. Loved it, thanks.
Great video.
Uses of RFID ( i dont know how many of are implemented), If you got any ideas feel free to add them as replys.
1. Package tracking.
2. Access control.
3. To store product info in package replacing barcode
4. Store indoor/outdoor location information such as lobby, stairs, elevator which can be used by blind and other disabled people. Put the cards/tags in location and a reader in cane/wheelchair will read it.
5. Pet control, get some RFID tags and install RFID reader in kitchen door to keep them away from kitchen, If you dont like pets in kitchen.
Very informative video. Would you happen to know if this device would read chips used for pet identification? One such chip is the ALLFLEX ISO FDX-B transponder. Thank you, Eric
Hi Julian, This was a great video and very informative. Thank you for it. Just want to ask how to make this reader to read more than one tag. If i stacked more than one cards within the range of reader reader won't detect any of those. Any solution?
very interesting - thanks
Hi Julian,
First thank you for the video, the explenations are great. I'm currently doing a small project on RFID but I'm a beginner in electronic stuffs, I would like to try this so I was wondering if you could give me the references of the components you use, for example I heard you use a "pro mini" I search for it but I don't know exactly which one to take.
Wonderful video, as always!
Have you thought about having two RFID Reader/Writers communicate with each other? Or even communicate with a phone, like Apple Pay ?
spent ages trying to get one of these working in conjunction with a data logging RTC/SD shield on a nano, both communicating over SPI. Turns out it doesn't have tri-state IO. When CS is high (chip disabled), it won't let any other device use the MISO line.
Took hours to fault find this!! You'd expect an implementation of SPI to be able to share lines. Surely that's the whole point of SPI!
Can't spare anymore IO on the Nano so going to have to try multiplexing the MISO line with a dedicated chip.
Content was informative
funny how i walked through exactly the same steps you did.. :D
This is awesome, where would one start learning on how to understand all of this?
I would like to know the same
Hi freind,This is grace from Greenrfid company,we are a card manufacturer in Shenzhen China.we can provide all kind of card to you. My Email is grace@greenrfid.com or leave your contact information.let's talk details.
i have this for good 40 days and i cant learn how to write id but i know to read and that is something :D
Funny that they published the paper of de encryption (hack) study done in Holland.
When everything transportation went digital in Holland, it automatically became a target for hackers.
It was published in a computer magazine how it was done as well.
the coil of wire is the receiver for the wireless power...
Just a note. "SDA" is the nomenclature of I2C communications which uses SDA, SCL, VCC and GND. It is another type of communications used by Arduino and Raspberry Pi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I²C.
my RFID/NFC project is for Scalextric Digital slot car racing. The Race Management Software needed a faster way to assign a car to a 'lane' and a driver to a lane. With an RFID sticker tag in the inside of every car and hand throttle, and each driver having an RFID card, the race setup process can be made a lot faster. Scalextric... it was never really for kids!
You can use it as a Time Clock like punching in for doing your hourly work punching out taking a break and be able to start your data out of that way you can just download it and basically they're just for the month or the week or whatever
tres classe merci pour la demos
just bought the same one two days ago
this could be to id and grant access like to TV by using relays and timing there usage. just a thought for a different use
I have one of those inexpensive RC-522 readers. While it reads the card and the keychain thingy that came with the package just fine, I can't really get it to work with other mifare cards (both 1k and 4k cards, and yes I'm sure they're mifare). I've done a lot of experimentation with the library from miguelbalboa, like trying to change the receiver gain registers and the pmos and nmos conductance, but no success yet.
Perhaps the supporting electronics to connect the RC-522 chip to the reader/writer coil is not up to specification, or perhaps even the RC-522 chip is fake?
So, I guess you get what you pay for...
I'd use it to tag animals, but it would require slightly larger coil antenna, or an extended range.
You could use it for gift cards, membership cards, ID cards, access cards, employee time sheet cards..
what is the putty you use on the back of the components to hold them down and in place while your working on them?\
thanks
One idea: Windows supports smartcard/RFID authentication. I don't know much about it, but you can require the presence of such a device to log in. With encrypted directories/drives it can make for an effective two-factor security system.
I found I could make several 'broken' cards usable by writing data to them with my Nokia Lumia and "NFC Interactor" app. Once done, I could read and write them with the RC522
You seem to know quite a bit about RFID and such. At work we have an door with a key pad. I'm pretty sure it reads RFID as well. I think my question is about the frequency of these things. They are not al on the same RF freq. Will these readers be able to get the frequency from the door and be able to write the access pin onto the card? do they make separate cards for each frequency? I don't know enough to even formulate the proper question. I would probably need to have the frequency the door keypads receives before I would go out and purchase a reader/writer, cards/chips?
Those RFID tags/readers as in this video all work at the same frequency(13.56MHz). Older RFID keypads(like 10 years ago) might use 125khz systems.
Hello! Do you need the keys to read/write the cards or the tags?? or you can just override any data between sector 1 and sector 15?? thank you from Argentina!!
_re: not sure what to use it for._
i have (eventual) plans on using it to automatically sense when the phone is docked into my smartphone robot.
Perhaps even automatically pick up the phone and dock itself, if you simply put the phone nearby (it'd trigger a search routine). Sortof like a robot comically trying to reattach it's own severed head.
One cool thing i've seen is people using RFID tags with cutting edge prosthetic arms. They put sticker-tags all around their house and the reader is in the arm, it tells the arm what context it's in. ie: There's a tag on the fridge door which automatically sets the fingers to "open the fridge" mode, one in the bathroom to set it to "hold toothbrush" mode. Handy stuff like that.
Grate video. Chip got i2c interface, but china modules routs only spi interface :(
About the compromised crypto, the guys doing it were PhDs, postdocs and researchers, with Bart Jacobs being the head professor. I worked at the same department two doors away from them. COincidently, the manufacturer NXP was from in the same city of Nijmegen. The whole (partly political) aftermath was 'interesting'. The group was at least capable of cloning access control chips, public transport chipcards and putting their public transport cards onto some spare sector of their passports etc. Fun times they were!
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You could use the keys as a wireless backup for data?!
(Now thats another use for it!)
It would have been nice if you had supplied the USB Interface device link for this project!
Hi,Thanks for your video , I have a question about tags! does each RFID system has own tags I mean every company writes own data to tags and it can not be understand by others?
I wonder if the communication problem has something do with the clock mismatch between the Arduino and the tags...?
Would you go into detail while using known key and blocking unknown keys. I can't seem to get any of my RFID tags to work even with the default program after removing factory default (FF).
hi, great video, but i am looking for a solution to my UHF range RFID reader....I want to connect it with the controller..pls help
The software didnt talk to me when I opened the serial monitor. Its just blank what do I do?
Julian, could you please attempt to get IRQ Interrupts working on this module and make a video about it? Thanks
maybe you can use it to set/load some data to a device to change it's behaviour?
great video.can you read and rewrite a stanley pac keyfob at all ?
Probably some body has changed the default authentication password of those cards. RFID tags are very durable, normal usage wouldn't corrupt anything unless you have changed the authentication passwords to something you cannot remember or accidentally sent the kill command(some tags other than mifare support the kill command.)
or maybe those cards are not mifare types. common ISO14443A/B cards are more widely used in access control. mifare are mostly used when values like money need to be stored , like bus passes
Hey there, Just wondering if you have considered using a screen recording program instead of a handheld camera? It would be a nicer viewing experience IMO.
I don't think he's any good with computers :-p
+Ger Lagerweij he can write assembly, so I would hope he knows what he's doing.
How big are the insides of those tags ? Would I be able to take it apart and put it inside a plastic cell 3cm in diameter ?