Most of us have discovered to easily refuse any requests to borrow instruments which are made by individuals we don’t belief. However typically that isn’t an possibility, reminiscent of in a makerspace the place a lot of individuals have entry to the instruments. To thwart device thieves — each intentional and unintentional — Bob Clagett of the I Like To Make Stuff YouTube channel constructed this toolroom administration system.
Clagett’s system lets device customers try and examine within the instruments they want by scanning RFID tags caught onto these instruments. Every device’s RFID tag has a singular identifier, so the system is aware of the standing of each particular person device. And every time somebody checks out a device, the system snaps a photograph of them and emails that to Clagett. The result’s a document of each device’s present handler, which is totally infallible (as long as everybody sticks to the scanning routine).
The entire system is constructed across the new Arduino UNO Q. It has an RFID scanner monitored by its microcontroller, which sends scan info to the single-board laptop (SBC) aspect. The SBC aspect logs the scan, captures a photograph by means of a USB webcam, and emails Clagett. It then tells the microcontroller to point out a nifty icon on the LED matrix, giving the person affirmation of the profitable scan.
