Just My Imagination

After a few mishaps in which I discover:

1. Always order spare breakout boards
2. Despite being ROHS-compliant, lead-free solder is a pain
3. I am not very good at soldering

...my RFID board works. Reader and breakout from Sparkfun, cute little tags (sticky black dot on yellow backing in image) from Trossen Robotics, instructions mostly from here.

Yeah my wire color conventions suck, I only had non-stranded wire in yellow and the other stuff turns out to be hard to use in breadboards.

It's still nifty! The LED flashes as long as it's reading a tag. Honestly this is a useless post as I haven't done anything interesting with it yet, but it still feels like magic when something works at all. More soon.