nfc

Reading and writing NFC tags

    6 minute read     Technology

Now that we’ve resolved all of the major teething issues we had with Python 3 and nfcpy, we can look at reading the contents of tags presented by the user and writing our own. There’s a wide variety of tags that can be written, so I’ll cover a couple of the most interesting — Wi-Fi credentials and URIs.

NFC fun with Python

    10 minute read     Technology

I’ve recently been looking into using an NFC reader/writer pad at work to make configuring some devices we have much quicker and easier, as the standard process for these devices is an Android phone and a lot of manual data entry. Checking the device using a mobile is great, but configuring them this way is not scalable.