![]() ![]() ![]() 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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