Design files for this project can be found here
Here’s a project that I worked on a few years ago that I keep forgetting to publish. At the time, the old card swipe entry system to my graduate lab was getting in pretty old, so we wanted to revamp it with modern technology. Instead of granting entry via the magnetic card on the student ID, we wanted to have a wireless solution that could easily be updated in the future. The solution involved a Nexus 7 mounted in the window of the door, connected to a wireless router that controlled a solenoid within the door, and individual NFC tags to grant access for each user.
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