Arduino with ID12 RFID reader

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Hey everyone, I'm currently working on a project which is going to make use of the ID12 RFID reader. I've had a look at a couple of example codes particuarly http://blog.formatlos.de/2008/12/08/arduino-id-12/ and Arduino Playground - ID12

In my project I want to use the reader without a connection to a computer. I want it to read an RFID tag and IF it matches do something ELSE something else.

All the examples I can find seem to concentrate on using serial communication. I figure this is good for debugging but I can't see how you move beyond this? Anyone know any tutorials which use it in this way?

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The output to serial is just, as you mentioned, to verify that the tag was read, and to show what the tag was.

Once you have the data in code (based on the playground sketch), you could compare the 1st 5 values against values in a list, to see if it was a known tag that was read, and do thing 1. If not, do thing 2.