Trolls are like dress code violations: often difficult to define, but you know em' when you see em lol. Maybe I have read through too many forums but i expect them to arrive and figured I could head a few off at the pass. I don't know of any trolls specifically on this site so that's good.
And I'm interested in any hardware recommendations you got! Like should I avoid Arduino board version 1 because it can only handle two RFID tags, while my needs are also some kind of motor to operate the gate, so perhaps I need version 2 instead. Those kinds of things are what I'm hoping to weed out here in this conversation.