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A small utility to handle reading and writing magnetic stripe cards over serial.
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README.md

magstripe

A small utility to handle reading and writing magnetic stripe cards over serial. Tested with the SparkFun SEN-08634, but may work for other writers as well.

Prerequisites

Usage

Reading a card

  1. chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB0
  2. ./magstripe.py /dev/ttyUSB0

Writing to a card

  1. chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB0
  2. echo ";1234567890?" | ./magstripe.py -w /dev/ttyUSB0