OT: consumer RFID tags and readers

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I know this isn't the kind of help you asked for, but I couldn't stop myself - if you lose it every time you lay it down, don't lay it down, take it with you. A vest with 22 pockets for your stuff.

Jerry

Buy some of those key locators. I've seen them advertised with four receivers, and a key fob transmitter with four buttons for about $25.

On 2/4/2009 9:15 AM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

So what about a locator for the key-fob transmitter, when you inevitably misplace *that*?

And then a locator for the locator for the ...

Actually, I have a GE. It came in handy when my car keys disappeared a few months back. (The universal remote control it comes with was of surprisingly high quality, with an outstanding key layout.)

The problem is that the fobs are just too big to put on most items, whereas the RFID tags can be attached to almost anything.

If you are losing that many things you either need to clean the junk out of your house, or move into a nursing home.

Put the transmitter fobs on a key rack, or in the drawer in one of your end tables. You only need them when you've lost one of the tagged items.

BTW. I've noticed that most new cordless phones have a locator button on the base. :)

The former. It's an uphill, but I'm finally making progress...

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You don't understand. You have to attach the fob to the thing you don't want to lose. The fobs are large items; they are not little tags.

If you know of a system that uses small adhesive tags that can be detected from about 1m, please let me know what it is.

Me too, between illnesses. :(

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I moved twice over the last year. Moving forces one to clean a lot a junk out, though much is still packed (and I can never find tools so am constantly buying more). Fortunately, the only real illness I've ever had was two years ago and that was only a few months (and I had nine months off work to clean out all the junk ;-).

Elektor magazine have done a lot of articles on RFID reading, and I seem to recall that they did a reader project not too long ago. I can't remember the range that it worked over, but I do remember an article where they described the system that is used in many warehouses for stock control, where RFID tags are read at distance, as the goods pass by on fork lifts or conveyors or whatever. Elektor has just become available in the US. Recommended reading if you like to be right up there with cutting edge technology, and home construction projects which use it.

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Thanks.

About 15 years ago I did a review for Elektor, of the Heath "Most-Accurate Clock".

I did a move about three years ago that left me still looking for things I 'thought' I had, things I wish I still had, replacing things I threw away...and still WAY too much stuff that I should have tossed.

jak

I still don't have an answer to the original question. Does anyone know?

Every once in a while I wished I had some small parts I threw out on the first move in '07. They hadn't been used in the fifteen years since the previous move so it would likely have cost more to move them than to buy new anyway. Buying tools that I know I already have somewhere in a box is a PITA though. Oh, well, one can never have too many tools. ;-)