[edub]

I've not worked with the Adafruit PN532, but for an extra $10 you can get a Pepper C1 USB from Eccel which is very easy to work with. It is a stand-alone device, so you don't have to connect it to anything but power. Has WiFi & BT built in and has a built-in web server to configure it with, you can have it make calls via REST, MQTT, WebSocket.

[crote]

Interestingly, the Pepper C1 is essentially a PN518 (presumably a sibling of the PN532 on Adafruit's board) hooked up to an ESP32. So a very simple device - and I've had a project on the backburner which is pretty much a DIY clone of it. If they made a USB-C version I'd ditch mine and buy it in a heartbeat.