During COVID-19 isolation in home office I needed some refreshment in my daily routine. In order to get a feeling of “going to work” I took a walk in the morning around my place and then “cheked in” to start my day.
In order to have a very authentic feeling I have build a small system to check-in with my work rfid card. I used Raspberry Pi, RFID antenna (MFRC522-python), SPI-Py and Dropbox API to save files with my hours.
Everything looked a bit rough like so:
I still have the code on my private github. The work largely borrowed from integrate-rfid-module-raspberry-pi and raspberry-pi-rfid-rc522 posts.