Lego Myki and Metcard readers, from Brickvention

Tue 24 January 2012 7:32am by Daniel
Filed under: Geek, transport 

I didn’t make it to Brickvention this year, but Adrian O’Hagan did, and sent me this photo. It’s a Lego Myki reader… and on the back of it is a Metcard reader.

Lego Myki and Metcard readers

Adrian says when a Myki card was presented it beeped and displayed a balance (which may or may not have been the real balance; I’m assuming all the information on the card is encrypted). The Metcard version would take a presented Metcard, pretend to read it and then spit it back out again, just like in real life.

Adrian notes: “ironically the metcard worked without a hitch, but the myki was a bit buggy. Not sure if that was by design or not ;-)”

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One comment on Lego Myki and Metcard readers, from Brickvention

  1. roger on Wed, 25th Jan 2012 7:47 am
  2. Good one. Very clever. I like it when ordinary things are turned into art.

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