Hi fellas!
I recently started working with MFRC522 RFID module. I am trying to store personal information about a user inside the tag itself. For that, I referred to the example code in the miguelbalbo library.
So what this code is doing is, it's getting serial input from PC about the family name. I can't understand how this particular section code has been made. Specifically, why, for block =1 status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16); statement is written , whereas for block =2, status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, &buffer[16], 16; is being written. Can anybody explain why '&' is being used here?
byte buffer[34];
byte block;
MFRC522::StatusCode status;
byte len;
Serial.setTimeout(20000L) ; // wait until 20 seconds for input from serial
// Ask personal data: Family name
Serial.println(F("Type Family name, ending with #"));
len=Serial.readBytesUntil('#', (char *) buffer, 30) ; // read family name from serial
for (byte i = len; i < 30; i++) buffer[i] = ' '; // pad with spaces
block = 1;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("PCD_Authenticate() success: "));
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));
block = 2;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, &buffer[16], 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));