TigerPOD
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”The first “CD player” for smart filament spools. TigerPOD puts a spool scanner on your desk — and you print it yourself. A free, open-source 3D-printable stand holding two USB NFC readers: place a spool, it identifies itself in Tiger Studio; place a blank chip, encode it. As natural as tapping a phone, but hands-free on the desktop.
Why two readers? Because every spool carries two chips, on opposite sides — the POD reaches both in one pass: encode both, verify both, or repair one from the other, without repositioning the spool.
Where it sits
Section titled “Where it sits”flowchart LR TAG["Spool / blank chip"] -- "placed on" --> POD["TigerPOD<br/>2× USB NFC readers"] POD -- "USB" --> ST["Tiger Studio"] ST -- "spool auto-opens · guided writes" --> YOU["You"]
Features
Section titled “Features”- 3D-printable shell — free STL on MakerWorld.
- Houses two ACR122U-class USB readers (read + write stations).
- Plug-and-play with Tiger Studio: scanning a chip auto-opens the matching spool; the guided chip-update flow uses it for UID-checked writes.
- Licensed CC BY 4.0 — remix and adapt freely.
Interactions
Section titled “Interactions”| With | How |
|---|---|
| TigerTag chips | Read / encode / verify |
| Tiger Studio | Instant spool identification, chip promotion & update |
In pictures
Section titled “In pictures”
- Repo: TigerPOD
- STL: MakerWorld model 1289152
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