Access Control Systems

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Machine Access Systems

  • London Hacker Space is said to have a machine access system
  • Tinker Mill wrote their own. Available on GitHub
  • It was reported that at RIT's makerspace students have a swipe card and must swipe into each machine before it will run. Mike Buffalin was mentioned as a contact.
  • It was reported the MIT has a system, but "MIT's official system is prohibitively expensive, even for MIT."

Door Access Systems

  • Milwaukee Maker Space has a door access system they are working to extend to machine access.
  • AuthBox Google has developed an open source access control system.
  • Que Lab the system we are currently using for our front door. We may in the future apply it to some of the big shop items and/or storage lockers.

Hardware

What specific hardware are you using to lock doors, enable machines, read tags, etc?