Getting free access to my apartment gym / lounge
🤫 the secret ways to not pay 60 - 100 dollars a month
Overview
I don’t know about you, but even my Classpass Infinite free trial isn’t enough for me.
One… well I’m just not going to the gym as much as I should, but two, sometimes I just want to go downstairs to my apartment’s “paid lounge / gym” which is crazy to me that they try to charge me 60 to 100 dollars a month for.
So how do I get it for free? (or not quite free - but in the long term at a very very reduced cost).
Use this..
There is a device called the Flipper Zero, which is able to read / write / emulate a bunch of card devices.
If the card isn’t password protected you can just directly read / write / emulate with it. Such as Nintendo Amiibos so on (which is actually why I got it at first).
But then I realized, hey, a friend in the apartment building is paying for lounge / gym access already, and after talking with them, they were down to let me clone it… and thus!
No more 60 to 100 dollar fee per month for a stupid gym / lounge (which imo should just be given to me since I’m already paying a lot of rent for my NYC apartment). But anyways, that just my two cents.
End of the day.. Cost calculation
Flipper zero is like 169 dollars. So don’t get me wrong, it is by no means cheap. But you only need the Flipper zero itself, and nothing else. And if you are a tech enthusiast, and into things like downloading amiibo nfc cards online (maybe even starting your own business cloning / reselling them), so on, there is so much interesting opportunities for this device!
End of the day, to have the opportunity to go to the lounge and not pay for it (if it isn’t included in your rent + also other opportunities such as consolidating remotes / writing new keys for me and my family / playing legend of zelda with all my fake amiibos / me being a tech enthusiast) makes it worth it to me.
What are amiibo nfc cards? Interesting read