Sam and I wanted to get all of the benefit of the Nintendo Switch Amiibo system without (very much of) the associated cost. So instead of investing our money into the plastic figurines we purchased:
- an Adruino board (~£20)
- a RFID board (~£15)
- Some blank RFID programmable cards (~£7) but be sure to buy the correct ones. Earlier standards don’t work, as we discovered.
And then we did a bit of online research.
The first thing is how to wire the whole lot up. This is how we did it:
The next task is to program the Arduino. We used libraries that are linked to from
You need the latest RFID cards:
These are one-time-only writeable so it’s good that they are relatively cheap. Bottom line is – it all works and we were able to download the codes for the Amiibos, create our own cards with the relevant information, and use fruitfully. What a great system.