Duplicating my student ID card

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Does anyone know of company that will make a generic ID card for me
(magnetic stripe, high corsivity)? Here's the catch: I only want 5 to
10 cards, not 500.

Long story:

I am trying to duplicate my student id card. I don't care about the
picture on the front or the school logo, I just want an exact copy of
what is encoded on my magnetic strip.

The problem I am having is that I can't find a company that will do
this for me. I find tons of companies that want to sell me the machine
(for around $1000), and I found ONE company that makes ID cards, but
the smallest order size is 500.

I have access to a card reader that reads my card and puts my student
ID into excel. I'm not sure what track the information is on but I am
willing to find out... I'm just not sure how (I'm pretty new at all of
this).

Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone own a magnetic card
encoder/writer that would be willing to make me some cards? (Although
I am a college student, I can pay some money for some cards...

Thanks!

 

[Robert Baer]

Does anyone know of company that will make a generic ID card for me
(magnetic stripe, high corsivity)? Here's the catch: I only want 5 to
10 cards, not 500.

Long story:

I am trying to duplicate my student id card. I don't care about the
picture on the front or the school logo, I just want an exact copy of
what is encoded on my magnetic strip.

The problem I am having is that I can't find a company that will do
this for me. I find tons of companies that want to sell me the machine
(for around $1000), and I found ONE company that makes ID cards, but
the smallest order size is 500.

I have access to a card reader that reads my card and puts my student
ID into excel. I'm not sure what track the information is on but I am
willing to find out... I'm just not sure how (I'm pretty new at all of
this).

Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone own a magnetic card
encoder/writer that would be willing to make me some cards? (Although
I am a college student, I can pay some money for some cards...

Thanks!

Magnetic card readers, all by themslves are rather cheap to buy.
So, get one and use it as a writer; the heads might be able to do
that.
Add a motorized card mover, for uniform movement on both the reader
and the "writer" and set them for the same speed; i am guessing one inch
per second would be a good start.
The signal(s) out of the reader head amplifier(s) then connected as
drivers for the "writer".
Use a discarded credit/debit card as the output media.
Use the full reader for verification.
This method should be rather inexpensive, and give you essentially
what you said you wanted in this exercize.

 

[Dave]

For info on mag card reading/writing on the cheap check out volume 21,
no.2 (summer 2004) issue of 2600 The Hacker Quarterly.

Back issue available from
http://store.yahoo.com/2600hacker/summer2004.html

Have fun!

Dave