The Arduino had plenty of I/O to wire up with the card reader’s interface. It also had a serial interface which made outputting data a snap. The ATmega328 even had enough power to translate each ...

But for those who fancy experimenting with the format it’s still possible to make a basic card reader using LEDs and light sensors, as [Nino Ivanov] has done using an Arduino Uno as the brains.

Electronics developer and Kickstarter serial entrepreneur Patrick Thomas Mitchell who we have featured numerous times here on Geeky Gadgets has once again taken to the crowdfunding website with ...