tamashii-nfc

= NFC

• http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org

== DESCRIPTION:

NFC is a ruby wrapper for the Near Field Communication library. The Near Field Communication library works with many USB RFID readers, so this gem lets you read RFID tags.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Only supports ISO1443A (MIFARE) tags right now.

== SYNOPSIS:

require 'nfc'

Create a new context

ctx = NFC::Context.new

Open the first available USB device

dev = ctx.open nil

Block until a tag is available, then print tag info

p dev.select

You can even run in an infinite loop if you'd like to continually find

tags:

loop do p dev.select end

== REQUIREMENTS:

• A USB RFID reader. I'm using the touchatag[http://touchatag.com].
• libnfc

== INSTALL:

First install libnfc[http://libnfc.org/]. I installed libnfc via homebrew:

$ brew install libnfc

The install the gem:

$ sudo gem install nfc

NOTE!!!! The nfc gem requires libnfc version 1.7.0 or greater!

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Aaron Patterson

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