I have very little experience with both C++ and electronics, but I am picking them up at a pretty good clip. My current dilemma is in attempting to use a PN532 RFID reader to interface with my Arduino Pro Mini for my project.
What I am attempting to do is read and write data from a MiFare 1k round sticker (several, actually!) to contain a value to be used as "ring" and three more vairables to be used as "redValue", "greenValue", and "blueValue". My idea does not care about the UID of the cards at all (so I can have multiple copies of a tag with the same values), nor does it care about authentication (unless there are concerns of what might happen when someone sets a random Skylanders figure on my project. XD)
What I need help with is simplifying these instructions just a bit to help me code for my project. My project does not care about the UID on the tags at all, so that code would be unnecessary. I read somewhere that the tag has to be authenticated in order to read and/or write, but I am not sure how to code that, either. What I am interested in most is reading data from and writing data to specified blocks in a mifare 1k tag. I'm seeking something of a "For Dummies" explanation of which functions do what so I can use them to code.
Google has not been particularly handy, either, since it just redirects me to these two resources.
The second one has a link to a library on page 5, where someone has made it just about as simple as possible to read those tags. That that is not simple enough is your problem.
What have you tried? If you want someone to write the sketch for you, go to Gigs and Collaboration, and let us know how much you're paying.