SMART-CARD reader/writer for Arduino

arduino smartcard smartcard-reader
Gustavo Valencia picture Gustavo Valencia · Jan 20, 2013 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I'm looking to build the same interaction that a normal user has with a vending machine through a chip card (smartcard) with an Arduino project of mine. I want to limit the users the time they can play with the toy (my project) for that, they will be required to insert the card and the code should:

  1. Read the card.
  2. Ask for a 4-digit password.
  3. Authenticate password on chip.
  4. Read time balance.
  5. Display on LCD the time balance.
  6. Save time of usage (via millis()).
  7. Subtract usage from time balance and display new balance.
  8. Log the usage time and date.

I have one of this SMART CARD readers and datasheet is very straight forward on how to connect, but I'm not as fluent as I would like on writing my own functions. Is there a good library that I can use? perhaps an example .ino or .pde file? thanks in advance!

[UPDATE #1]

I have found a good looking project by Angus71 in SourceForge but I must admit that I don't know how to implement the library into the arduino code itself. The author wrote SCTest (example) that is not enough for me, So I wanted to check if you can help me?

You may download the library and examples from the link above and would appreciate very much if you can point me in a better direction!

Answer

BeeJayF picture BeeJayF · Sep 2, 2019

If you are still flexible with the hardware you might want to consider using an NFC card and store the data in your reader (or the nfc card if you need to use it in several devices. There are many open NFC libraries that work flawlessly.

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