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A python wrapper API that allows you to interface with the mfrc522 RFID card reader and a Raspberry Pi

• Free software: MIT license

Requirements

The code requires you to have the mfrc522 and RPi.GPIO libraries installed. They can be installed using the following commands respectively sudo pip3 install mfrc522 and pip install RPi.GPIO

Features

This API provides you with functions allowing you to:

• Enable/disable SPI communication between the Raspberry Pi and the RFID card reader
• Reset RFID cards and tags by clearing the text stored in them
• Read the text and id number associated to RFID cards and tags
• Write text to RFID cards and tags

Credits

This API made use of Mario Gómez' class to interface with the NFC reader Module MFRC522 on the Raspberry Pi. It can be found here

Contributors

• EEE3097S Group 19:

@IviweMalotana @SKMBiya