🆕 blog! “Thoughts on building an NFC reader for the Framework laptop”
The Framework laptop has several little slots which can be used be used to expand the functionality of the laptop. They convert the internal USB-C ports into a different sort of port. For example, Framework sells an official HDMI card and Ethernet card: But the community have bu…
@Edent You're probably going to want the antenna to stick out of the case at least a little bit? The expansion slots sit underneath the mid plate (see photo) which is a solid bit of metal and might block NFC signals.
@Edent Electrically free, but mechanically very difficult to get to!
Here's a picture of the underside of my number pad module. You can see the indentations made on the black insulating rectangle by the pins of the unused USB connection.
The number pad is held in place by strong magnets either side of the connectors on the mid plate — they pull it down with quite a lot of force.
Damn, just realised the chance of my PCBs ordered today getting here this week is approaching zero, and the two bank holidays next week just make it drag on to Wednesday!
@revk@tripplehelix We have a similar thing in my company's admin code. It includes some non-standard entries, though, like "Star Wars Day" and "Start of tinsel drinking".
An interesting thought does strike me as I create some tools and automations. I was pondering the new door sign doorbell thing and making it have seasonal displays and automating it all.
And I pondered that it is not impossible that a lot of these silly little things could out live me.
In decades to come, a doorbell sign in Abergavenny could do a Halloween theme automatically because I made it so, even long after I am gone, maybe even long after the house is sold to someone else.
@revk Passing IoT devices over to new owners is currently an open issue. (Open research issue? Very likely.)
Even "inheriting" something as simple as an analogue phone line is difficult, and that has no local state. Handing over a broadband connection is also difficult - I've done the "transfer of billing" procedure with Zen a number of times, for example, and I still have some measure of administrative control over connections that haven't belonged to me for years.
@revk Handing over administrative control of a complicated system of routers, access points, some kind of uplink, possibly a Zigbee or Thread network, and a bunch of devices with local state currently can't be expected to work smoothly.
If I was the incoming owner/administrator I'd be expecting to wipe everything and start again at the very least.
A naive incoming owner wouldn't even know that that was needed. Expecting stuff to just keep working isn't really reasonable at the moment.