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Boards & stores
| Name | MFN | MFP | URL | Module | Price | Ant. | Stock | USB | MCU | UART | I2C | SPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tessel RFID Module | store | PN532 | 50 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Gravity: UART & I2C NFC Module | DFrobot | DFR0231-H | store | PN532 | 30 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Gravity: UART & I2C NFC Module | store | PN532 | 24 GBP | 8 | ||||||||
| Grove - NFC(PN532): Contactless communication, I2C/UART | Seeed | 113020006 | store | PN532 | 17 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔✔ | ✔ | |
| Grove - NFC (PN532) | store | 15 GBP | 6 | |||||||||
| Micro NFC Board | AppNearMe | store | PN532 | 30 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ⚙ | ⚙ | ⚙ | |
| HydraNFC Shield and HydraNFC Antenna | store | TRF7970A | 79 USD | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ||
| PN532 NFC/RFID controller breakout board - v1.6 | Adafruit | 364 | store | PN532 | 40 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| PN532 NFC/RFID controller breakout board - v1.6 | store | 450 NOK | ✔ | |||||||||
| Adafruit PN532 NFC/RFID controller breakout board (v1.6) | store | 33 GBP | 5 | |||||||||
| 364 | store | 440 NOK | 97 | |||||||||
| Adafruit PN532 NFC/RFID Controller Shield for Arduino + Extras | Adafruit | 789 | store | PN532 | 40 USD | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔✔ | ✔ |
| Adafruit PN532 NFC/RFID Controller Shield for Arduino + Extras | store | 450 NOK | ✔ | |||||||||
| Adafruit PN532 NFC/RFID Controller Shield for Arduino + Extras | store | 33 GBP | 14 | |||||||||
| NFC+RFID shield | store | 700 SEK | 4 | |||||||||
| Arduino® Compatible RFID Read And Write Module | Velleman | VMA405 | store | MFRC522 | 150 NOK | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
| RFID modul 13.56MHz USB | Olimex | MOD-RFID1356MIFARE | store | PN532 | 350 SEK | ✔ | 6 | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| RFID modul Mifare SM130 | SonMicro | SM130 | store | SMB130 | 100 (450) SEK | ✘ | 2 | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Challenger RP2040 NFC (with antenna) | iLabs | 98-00241-2 | store | PN7150 | 17 GBP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ⚙ | ⚙ | ⚙ |
| Challenger RP2040 NFC + NFC Antenna | store | 240 SEK | 67 | |||||||||
| Bi2C - Easy NFC | iLabs | 98-00238-1 | store | PN7150 | 13 GBP | ✔ | 14 | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Bi2C - Easy NFC | store | 167 SEK | 172 | |||||||||
| NFC HAT for Raspberry Pi (PN532) | Waveshare | PN532 NFC HAT | store | PN532 | 15 GBP | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Chips
| Name | MPN | Status | Datasheet | PSU | Logic | I2C | SPI | UART | 14443A | 14443B | 18092 | MIFARE Classic | FeliCa | 15693 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PN532 | PN5321A3HN | ✔! | [pdf] | 2.7-5.5V | 1.6-3.6V | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | |||
| MFRC522 | MFRC52202HN1 | ✘ | [pdf] | 2.5-3.6V | 1.6-3.6V | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ? | ✘ | |||
| PN7150 | PN7150B0HN | ✘ | [pdf] | 2.7-5.5V | 1.65-3.6V | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| PN7160 | PN7160A1HN | ✔ | [pdf] | 2.8-5.5V | 1.65-3.6V | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| PN7160B1HN | ✘ | ✔ |
Main candidates
Challenger RP2040 NFC
- RP2040 MCU
- PN7150 NFC read/write
- NFC type 1-5, supports most if not all NFC tags
- Adafruit feather footprint for expansion modules
- USB-C
- I2C expansion port: BI2C; Bi2C – Bi2C to Qwiick adapter available
- Neopixel
- LiPo battery (2.0mm JST)
- ~9cm reading distance
Product page Datasheet Schematic
Adafruit PN532 breakout (v1.6)
- PN532 is very widely supported
- UART, I2C and SPI
- NFC type 1-4
- Both this chip and this exact module are very widely available
- Also available in Arduino shield variant
- ~10cm reading distance (assuming same antenna performance as shield)
Product page Tutorial Schematic
Grove - NFC (PN532)
Ethernet
| Name | Formfactor | Chip | PoE | Price | Links | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PoE FeatherWing | FeatherWing | W5500 | ✔ | 29 USD | CrowdSupply | |
| WIZnet Ethernet HAT for Pico | Pico HAT | W5100S | ✘ | 4.4 USD | The Pi Hut DigiKey | |
| Adafruit Ethernet FeatherWing | FeatherWing | W5500 | ✘ | 17.53 USD | The Pi Hut DigiKey Adafruit | |
| ENC28J60 Mini | 2×5 header | ENC28J60 | ✘ | 14.5 USD / 3.3 USD | The Pi Hut AliExpress AliExpress | Many alternatives when shopping from china |