5 Responses to Making a magnetic stripe card reader

  1. rmhall on said:

    Hey Phil – with all the coverage on magstripe card readers, in the first issue of Make and the recent articles, I thought I would point out the Flash based application I put together this past July, for parsing AAMVA formatted drivers license info from the back of drivers licenses. Full source and info available HERE – Interfacing Flash with the Real World Part 1: Magnetic Stripes and Barcodes all released under Creative Commons 2.0. There is also some included source for using a laser based bar code scanner with Flash to parse and retrieve information on UPC barcodes from a free UPC code database.

    Regards,
    Rob

  2. boppyer on said:

    Hi,
    Thanks for the tutorial, I read it in the first issue but am a novice when it comes to circuit board making etc, I wondered if you could put me in the right direction of any books or sites to help me make sense of what you did for the magnetic strip reader circuit board. I couldn

  3. pratikprojectmit on said:

    hi i am searching for the cicuit for magnetic paascard maker, i read ur artical for magnetic paascard reader i found it very interesting.please help me to find the circuit by sugessting some site.
    thanks

  4. kishan86 on said:

    Hi
    i am a final yr engg student..
    our project is to make a card reader…
    can any one please guide me

  5. kishan86 on said:

    Hi
    i am a final yr engg student..
    our project is to make a card reader…
    can any one please guide me

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