Open ecosystem philosophy
Everything is open
Section titled “Everything is open”Every layer of TigerSystem is published — hardware, firmware, SDKs, apps, docs:
| Layer | Project | License |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop app | Tiger Studio Manager | MIT |
JS SDK (npm tigertag) |
TigerTag-SDK-JS | Apache-2.0 |
| Python SDK | TigerTag-SDK-Python | Apache-2.0 |
| Scale hardware + firmware (V3, current) | Tiger-Scale-V3 | MIT |
| Scale hardware + firmware (V2) | Tiger-Scale | MIT |
| Reader stand (STL + docs) | TigerPOD | CC BY 4.0 |
| Chip format guide | TigerTag-RFID-Guide | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cloud integration docs | TigerTag_Firebase_Integration | CC BY 4.0 |
| This documentation | TigerSystem-Docs | CC BY 4.0 |
A sandbox, not a walled garden
Section titled “A sandbox, not a walled garden”The whole user-facing ecosystem is deliberately a laboratory, not the destination. Every product — Tiger Studio, the mobile app, TigerScale, TigerPOD — is a working demonstration of what open, documented technology makes possible once a spool can identify itself: live printer telemetry across six brands, physical rack mapping, sensors, shared inventories. Some of it will mature, some of it exists to prove a point, and all of it is readable, forkable and free to copy. Every product — current and future — is a proof of concept of an open-source, standard, agnostic, cross-platform protocol: its only job is to show the potential, so that anyone can take our integration work as inspiration and imagine the features of tomorrow.
Build your own
Section titled “Build your own”TigerTag is an open protocol, not a platform you have to join:
- Read the chip format (TigerTag-RFID-Guide).
- Pick up an SDK.
- Connect to the cloud — or don’t; chips work offline.
- Ship the software, the hardware or the business you actually want.
Your app can be something else entirely — it will still speak the same chips. An NFC phone, an ACR122U USB reader — or a DIY ESP32 with a PN532/RC522 module, TigerScale-style — is all the hardware it takes: plug spool identity into an ERP, an internal stock tool, a tracking workflow, a fablab lending system, a private or public R&D project — anything.
Related: Developer overview, Products