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Turn your Arduino into a Magnetic Card Reader!

Step 8Display the Data

Display the Data

Display the data

The display goes to a terminal program I wrote specifically for connecting to an AVR via RS232 or USB. The program is called AVR Terminal. The ReadData() method is pretty ugly and you're encouraged to find a cleaner solution than the one I came up with.

There's also an output of the function in AVR Terminal. The output is first of a health insurance card, and the second is of a VISA card. Click the [i] in the upper left corner of the picture and choose original or large image to see it better.
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Feb 26, 2011. 3:58 AMducktape3618 says:
awesome to hack my dad his new credit card!

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Author:nevdull(The Bold Scientist)
Gian is the VP Research & Development at Open Design Strategies and holds a BA in Molecular/Cellular Biology and an MS in Computer Science. He has a collection of 8-bit microcontrollers and a room fu...
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