Michael Paholski was tasked with creating a modern rendition of an employee punch-clock, and turned to Arduino as the base for his solution. By using a Freetronics EtherTen, an after market NFC shield and related circuitry his goal has been successful. Over various articles the project is described from the idea phase through to the culmination of the final product. When completed it can record the card data, the direction of entry on the card and alter this, and send required data to an external database.
It's an interesting and useful project to follow, so for more information start here. And for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.
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