[Lab] Removing chip from presto card

[Dave Hunt]

Sounds like some acetone might be in order...

https://learn.adafruit.com/rfid-iphone/dissolve-the-card

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Tai <argument.de.tai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shamelessly stealing an idea I read about elsewhere where someone put the
> chip from their transit pass into a wand and tapped that on the bus.
>
> I'd love to know how to extract the Mifare 2 RFID (I think that's what
> they're on) chip and antenna from the card and repackage it in a fun way.
>
> Unfortunately, having shone a light through the card, it looks like the
> antenna runs around the circumference. I don't know much about the
> underlying science of RFIDs and I'm not sure if it would just be a matter
> of extracting some chip and attaching a new, equivalent antenna (or
> extracting and reshaping the existing one).
>
> Any ideas here?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Tai
>
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