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I recently got an arduino kit, which included a RC552 RFID  thing, and a mega 2560. 

I followed this for the pins

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 * Pin layout should be as follows:
 * Signal     Pin              Pin               Pin
 *            Arduino Uno      Arduino Mega      MFRC522 board
 * ------------------------------------------------------------
 * Reset      9                5                 RST
 * SPI SS     10               53                SDA
 * SPI MOSI   11               51                MOSI
 * SPI MISO   12               50                MISO
 * SPI SCK    13               52                SCK

And used this example code

#include <SPI.h>
#include <MFRC522.h>

#define SS_PIN 10
#define RST_PIN 9
MFRC522 mfrc522(SS_PIN, RST_PIN);	// Create MFRC522 instance.

void setup() {
	Serial.begin(9600);	// Initialize serial communications with the PC
	SPI.begin();			// Init SPI bus
	mfrc522.PCD_Init();	// Init MFRC522 card
	Serial.println("Scan PICC to see UID and type...");
}

void loop() {
	// Look for new cards
	if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_IsNewCardPresent()) {
		return;
	}

	// Select one of the cards
	if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_ReadCardSerial()) {
		return;
	}

	// Dump debug info about the card. PICC_HaltA() is automatically called.
	mfrc522.PICC_DumpToSerial(&(mfrc522.uid));
}

It definitely had power, as the LED was lit, however, whenever I ran the program and held the card/key fob near it, nothing came up on the serial monitor.

 

Google was not my friend, and just came up with the same code and pin layout.

I'm probably being a massive idiot, but any help?

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