Thread: i2c Smartcard-Reader TOH
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2014-05-18 , 14:26
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Originally Posted by kimmoli View Post
My problem is that there is only roughly 8765 hours in a year.

I suggest to get yourself a Arduino or something and get started with things.
Yes of course, I also have a real life and a real job
Just one more thing:
I found these card readers:
http://www.ineltek.com/ru/files/Insi...er_2012_03.pdf
Some of those come with Omnikey firmware which eradicates the linux-driver issue as Omnikey readers are supported by Linux pcscd already. Furthermore, all of them can run with 3,3 voltage as supplied by the Jolla.
The only thing that needs to be handled would be to somehow convert i2c to either UART or SPI, since none of the readers seems to support i2c out of the box. Is there any (straight forward) solution to connect a SPI device to an i2c bus? I would be willing to order those parts and play around with them if it sounds somewhat feasible.