Potentially free: Have an old android phone with NFC? Plug in phone.this one) and return it if it doesn't work out. You can get it somewhere like amazon, (e.g. I'd guess they would, unlike a Skylander's portal, they don't expect a wireless use case where they'd want to conserve power. Hopefully they power on just from a charger. Cheap and easy, likely (but not guaranteed) to work: Buy a USB MiFare reader.See the datasheet sections 9.6-9.7 to see how they're possibly doing the sleep (there's a few options). You may need to cut traces to the microcontroller to prevent it putting the chip to sleep. Cheap but potentially a lot of work and may bork the portal: Bypass microcontroller, which according to last link, powers down the reader to conserve power in case it's being used wirelessly.This page has a really good discussion on it. It's 13.56 MHz (MiFare/NFC) and the chip is NXP MFRC530 Basically it only has to be a powered reader and the figure will light up. People tried to do the same as you, obviously also weren't successful (although some posted using an S1 portal might work - don't know enough about skylanders stuff to comment on what that is), but last post here refers to this MakeZine article take a look at the video at 5:40. Kind of a vague request I know, but wanted to know if someone had an idea of what I was talking about, or could point me in the direction of some directions before I considered buying an arduino to try and do the job. Is it possible to somehow fake an input in order to get the portal to light up? I assume this is because it doesn't send a signal down the D+/- wires. A straight USB power source does not make it light up. However, the portal only lights up when connected to a device that would read it, e.g. I also decided the cheapest way to do this was to get an old USB wired Skylanders portal and use that. I vaguely understand the why of this, something to do with excess power from the NFC powering an LED inside the figurine.Īnyway, I thought it would be a nice idea to somehow construct a NFC reader under a shelf in his bedroom so when he places his Skylander figures on it, they light up. Some of them light up when placed on the portal (LightCore).
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