Magnetic Card Reader

The Magnetic Card Reader project was created as a learning experience for reading magnetic cards.

  • Project Status: Completed
  • Started (Year): 2020
  • Last Updated (Year): 2020

Blog Posts

Magnetic Card Reader (TTL) with Arduino – Part II

<- Part 1 Introduction In the first part, I did some troubleshooting to fix an issue with the particular card readers that I have on hand. In part two, I will go over some code changes which allow the card reader to work without needing to add a capacitor to the data line and allowing…

Magnetic Card Reader (TTL) with Arduino

Introduction I was cleaning up and found a project I abandoned about 20 years ago. I was attempting to read magnetic strip cards using the PC Parallel Port. I had done it previously with a different card reader but I had some trouble with these two particular units. I wanted to test them before I…