The Fantastic Piece of Tinfoil in my Wallet |
December 11th, 2025 |
| rfid, tech |
The gates in the lobby of my workplace annoyed me for years: they
would often reject my access card, and I'd need to tap several times.
After a while I realized that the reader was getting confused by the
other RFID cards in my wallet, and if I pulled the card out of my
wallet first it worked every time.
This turned out to be very easy to fix: tape a piece of tinfoil to the back of my access card:
I feel a bit silly that after spending months pulling the card out each time the fix ended up taking me a couple minutes. I often decide to put up with minor annoyances instead of thinking about whether there's a way to fix them, and I think overall that has made my life substantially better, but in this case even a little thought would have been well worth it!
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