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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

Pinout

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

Product image

Grove - NFC (PN532)

  • Cheap
  • PN532
  • UART, I2C
  • Grove I2C connector
  • NFC type 1-4
  • ~2.8cm reading distance

Product page

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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

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