Chippin' In! (First implant installed- NExT)

[darthdomo]

Congrats on the install! For my NExT, I use the DT keyboard reader to log in to my machine every day (and for my sudo password multiple times an hour).

I also converted my little personal safe to open with my NExT, which I posted about here:

All-compromises safe conversion project for less than $9

So, I decided to take my cheap Walmart keypad safe (~$50 IIRC), and convert it to HF RFID/NFC. I decided to do this as cheaply as possible, with the goal being to spend $0 on it if I could. I have a plethora of Arduino components from over the years, so I figured I could make it happen. This is why I chose the name, the all-compromises build. The opposite of a no-compromises build, I was willing to cut as many corners as necessary to get it working for “free”. My only goals were to have it work …

For a while, albeit not currently, I also used it to start my car:

CaRFID - Custom Ignition Switch Replacement (Open Source)

Like many on this forum, I really wanted to be able to start my car via my implants. However, my car does not have a push button start. This makes things a bit tricky. Specifically, my car is a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix. I didn’t really like many of the solutions on the market for solving this. There are a few RFID push button start kits, but they’re like a black box with closed firmware, and I didn’t like how many features some of them were trying to pack in (aftermarket alarm, remote start, et…

For the data side of things, my NExT stores my vCard contact info, for easily sharing with others. Just tap my hand to a compatible phone (mainly Android phones), and bam, my contact info is in their phone.

I’ve also used it to store my website link in the past, but now that’s on my xSIID.