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 |
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.
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.
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