Regular Hackaday readers may recall that a little less than ... such as support for NFC and EMV chip cards. There’s a good chance that you’ve seen one of these, or at least something very ...

A 1970s programmable calculator from Sharp approached the problem with magnetic strips on special cards, and since [Menadue] has one with no cards, he set about making his own. These cards are a ...

Siemens Compact Cardreaders are stand-alone readers, both work either as a high quality Magnetic Stripe or Proximity Reader. Both are easy to install and provide a high level of security, whilst ...

which makes equipment for magnetic stripe testing. “If you took your card today and used it in a magstripe reader from 1970, it would still be able to read it,” he says. His firm has worked on ...