<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Indeed...<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the link Justin, that's a cool project! I like those ideas at the end.</div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, from this thread previously, I purchased the book that Andrew recommended... the RFID Handbook (isbn:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; ">978-0470844021)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">. It's very good. Nice clear explanations and covers more than I could ever want to know about RFID's. Here's a preview of the book (thanks to google) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/687k28">http://tinyurl.com/687k28</a> </span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>B</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Alberto Gaitán wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The internets are timeless. The archives and some of us others appreciate it!<br><br>A<br><br><br>On 11/12/08 12:46 AM, Justin Sabe wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I know this was moons ago, but this seems to directly answer the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">question and provide some interesting ideas:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/RFID_Reader_Detector_and_Tilt_Sensitive_RFID_Tag/">http://www.instructables.com/id/RFID_Reader_Detector_and_Tilt_Sensitive_RFID_Tag/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Brian Chamberlain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:blchamberlain@gmail.com">blchamberlain@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Dorkbotters,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I was wondering if anyone had some good resources (books, links, articles,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">etc..) about RFID? I'm trying to learn about it because I want to use it in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">a few projects. Through some searching I've found this really excellent<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">article (a thesis paper by an MIT student)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://autoid.mit.edu/whitepapers/TAS-MSTHESIS-FINAL.PDF">http://autoid.mit.edu/whitepapers/TAS-MSTHESIS-FINAL.PDF</a> which covers the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">basics (even including the eletromagnetic theory stuff) and some RFID<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">history. Speaking of history... Did you know that RFID (in a basic form)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">has been around since WW2?! They used it in friend-or-foe type systems to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">identify planes! Crazy.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Anyway, this seems like the forum to ping the collective noodle for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">information on this topic. Any info you have would be helpful... one<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">specific area I have questions about is in hi-speed multi-channel RFID<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">systems... if that helps narrow criteria for the RFID gurus out there.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks!<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Brian<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">........................................................................<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">.......dorkbot dc: people doing strange things with electricity.........<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">................... <a href="http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc">http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc</a> .......................<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">........................................................................<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">........................................................................<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">.......dorkbot dc: people doing strange things with electricity.........<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">................... <a href="http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc">http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc</a> .......................<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">........................................................................<br></blockquote>........................................................................<br>.......dorkbot dc: people doing strange things with electricity.........<br>................... <a href="http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc">http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc</a> .......................<br>........................................................................<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>