NFC-F Developers' Blog

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SwitchScience Japan offers a variety of FeliCa products not only to it’s domestic Japanese customers, but also to international customers via an “international order” page. The products offered for purchase include the NFC Dynamic Tag modules and a nice ‘pitch conversion board’ to connect to the NFC Dynamic Tag module via solder pads.

Thanks to you all for your interest in the NFC Dynamic Tag! To illustrate a bit more how the NFC Dynamic tag can be used with Arduino, we have posted some samples below.

In case you are working on NFC and look for an implementation to test against, or to tinker with, have a look at nfcpy. The NFC implementation is entirely written in Python and works with a number of USB readers, like the RC-S380. » READ MORE…

While the initial announcement of the availability of Type F SIM card is already some time ago, it might still be interesting to developers to be aware of this. The original PR explains more details, and if you happen to be a Hongkong resident, you can apply here for the SIM to use the Octopus service.

Sony’s FeliCa Lite S NFC tag can be used as a plain memory tag like any other NFC tags. But in addition, it offers mutual authentication functions, protection of read and write access, and more.