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RFID Music Player

Posted by timothy on from the reuse dept.

frazzydee writes "I know what you're thinking, RFID tags used to play music? Well, it turns out that we don't need to take out our tinfoil hats this time, because it turns out that are some constructive uses for the same RFID tags that we have all come to loathe. Since RFID tags can hold 1 kilobyte of data, somebody who goes by dividuum found that (s)he could use the tags combined with a reader to store and play back music. Dividuum used SID files- the same format used on Commodore 64s- and programmed everything in C. Pictures of the RFID device are available here."

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  1. it turns out that by mightymac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You used "it turns out" in two sentences which are next to each other. This is an example of redundant data, so I wouldn't go storing your /. posts on rfid's.

  2. HA! by dangold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your site is about to get slashdotted as it appears on www.slashdot.com :-).
    Posted by Slashdot at March 23, 2005 01:14 AM

  3. Re:1 kb by jx100 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all your base are belong to some indian math guy in soviet russia with hot grits down his pants?

  4. Fun for animal breeders by WoBIX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been looking into buying an RFID chip setup for tagging animals, in this case pythons and boas.

    It would be interesting to not only tag the animals with an identifiable number, but create a tonal signature that would play back when the animal is scanned.

    Someone at PETA just put my name on a shoot-to-kill list.