I remember when I first got my Flipper Zero I read into this a bit, but realized I had never actually seen one in the wild, thought it was something ancient (Not that I'm using my flipper in the wild).
Is it really just not a US thing? Are these used in other parts of the world?
Edit: I think I'm actually asking about iButtons/Dallas Keys, now that I'm re-investigating, but any input is welcome!
They’re used for proofs sometimes, if you expect your security company to do a specific route they need to go to each token on it and touch them, you see iButtons glued to walls outside commercial buildings for that purpose. Systems like that mean they can’t just say they walked the route and go home, I’ve seen them at airport bathrooms for the same reason.
I remember when I first got my Flipper Zero I read into this a bit, but realized I had never actually seen one in the wild, thought it was something ancient (Not that I'm using my flipper in the wild).
Is it really just not a US thing? Are these used in other parts of the world?
Edit: I think I'm actually asking about iButtons/Dallas Keys, now that I'm re-investigating, but any input is welcome!
They’re used for proofs sometimes, if you expect your security company to do a specific route they need to go to each token on it and touch them, you see iButtons glued to walls outside commercial buildings for that purpose. Systems like that mean they can’t just say they walked the route and go home, I’ve seen them at airport bathrooms for the same reason.
I did a lot of coding for these in the UK during early 2000s.
They were pretty nifty for their time, but I guess completely superseded by RFID.
Always annoyed me that it clearly has 2 wires (power/signal + ground).