The OpenBeacon project is an open source hardware and software active RFID device. OpenBeacon tags consist of 2.4GHz transceivers and a PIC16F684. One use of the project was to create CCC Sputnik ...

Here’s an open source RFID cloner design that is about the same size as a standard RFID key card. It doesn’t need a battery to capture key codes, just the magnetic field generated by an RFID ...

Average cost for these is about $0.12 per tag in bulk. Active RFID tags, at costs ranging from $20 to more than $100 each, have their own power supply and broadcast their signals across longer ...