[Max] sent us his dorm room RFID controlled lock. While RFID door locks are nothing new, his implementation is very slick. The entire unit is attached with suction cups to a mirror on the inside of the door. It looks like it could be removed and put elsewhere in a matter of seconds. That’s pretty slick. Much cleaner than the touch sensitive dorm lock we saw last year.
My question is how effective are the suction cups? I have used them before in past projects but never for something requiring an absolute position. It seems after a while the box would at best move and not be able to open the door, or at worst fall off the mirror completely…
That being said, nice project!
Posted at 3:26 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by webkraller
the touch thing you posted last year was better, because losing your RFID tag is just as easy as losing your keys :)
Posted at 7:03 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by amk
While this is definitely very cool, I am going to have to agree with amk on this one.
Posted at 11:16 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Nick Caiello
Well now you can implant them in your hand, like they do with dogs.
Posted at 11:20 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Plague420
amk: what about using the scratch input and having a custom shape or knock pattern? since the door is solid/hollow the noise should travel to both sides of the door. ie. knock, circle circle square knock.
Posted at 11:34 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Raged
“well now you can implant them in your hand, like they do with dogs.”
Sif. just implant the chip into your dog. then use the dog to open the door.
given it would have to be a small dog. but it work work none the less.
Posted at 12:02 am on Jan 3rd, 2009 by hitpenguin
Dogs as keys… I like it
Posted at 1:43 am on Jan 3rd, 2009 by aaron
“just implant the chip into your dog. then use the dog to open the door.”
That is Pretty Slick, But why not Key the lock to the RFID Chip, the Government implanted in you when you got you State Mandated Inoculation shots as a kid ?then you’d never loose your RFID Key !
Posted at 2:01 pm on Jan 3rd, 2009 by Rickard 5
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I’m surprised they couldn’t find an easy way to also lock the door. ie the old string on the bottom of the knob to lock. You’d have to take into affect with slack, but I’m sure there’s ways around it.
Posted at 10:54 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Raged