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OpenPCD : Free Software and Hardware for RFID

von Kushal Das (OpenPCD project, Fedora Project)

Donnerstag, 31.05.2007, Saal 5: Wiesbaden, 12:00-13:00 Uhr

This presentation will introduce and demonstrate OpenPCD (http://www.openpcd.org). The purpose of this project is to develop free hardware designs and software for 13.56MHz RFID reader. The OpenPCD project is a 100% Free Licensed RFID reader hardware and software design. It has first been released on September 13, 2006. Using OpenPCD, interested hackers can directly access the lowest layers of 13.56MHz based RFID protocols. The hardware offers a number of digital and analog interfaces, and the firmware source code is available and can be modified and compiled using arm-gcc. The presentation will introduce and explain the OpenPCD with some basic application can be written with it. It will also demo the python bindings for the project.

Über den Autor Kushal Das:

Kushal Das, is the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (www.dgplug.org). He is also a Fedora Ambassador and member of Fedora extras project. He is currently working on kphotobymail & ria. He also started working with the OpenPCD project. Loves Python very much & a regular KDE user. He is an active member of BangPypers, a community of Python programmers in Bangalore.
He has given talks at different Free/Open Source Software conferences, like:
1."dgplug,­first trip Round the Sun..problems & answer” in FOSS.IN 2005
2."An introduction to AJAX & Rico” in LinuxAsia 2006
3.“AJAX in 30 seconds” in Sapthagiri Engineering College, Bangalore.
4.“Its Fedora” in Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, 2006
5.“Inside of Fedora Extras, a technical journey” in FOSS.IN 2006

In OpenPCD , he works from the users' prospective. He is looking for different aspects/places where OpenPCD can be used. He is also maintaining librfid packaging in Fedora repository.