The C++ code is bad. Do you have any experience with that language? Why did you decide to use it as is?
if it works, it works
I know. But it's not a good advertisement for all those AI agents.
Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent
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#12>The HN community may find the context of the prompts, organized by each turn in each session, the most useful. So cool! I'll review fully later but was curious as something caught my attention, do you need to say please and thanks in your prompts for better outputs or is this just anthropomorphism taking over?
It’s anthropomorphism taking over. I pretend I’m talking with a colleague when I do this sort of thing.
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#13The C++ code is bad. Do you have any experience with that language? Why did you decide to use it as is?
I don’t. It works, reliably enough that my son hasn’t had any issues using it for a week. What’s bad about it?
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#14Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D
That was the first album on it for sure and yes he repeats it constantly. Luckily the speaker is in his room.
He’s got a yoto too but won’t wear the headphones, so this has been a nice compromise.
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#16Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D
In my experience there is no way to avoid this short of eliminating every trace of copper and silicon from your home.
To be fair, if they manage to play the Frozen song on a classic Game boy color, I'd let them.
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#17For those that love the idea of this kind of child-friendly media consumption but maybe don’t have the time, consider Yoto. You can make your own cards that can contain one track or playlists of mp3s that you drag and drop onto a web interface. The yoto then downloads and stores those files, playing them whenever that card is inserted. You can also use the ipad app to browse and play the same content.
I just built one (nfc music player) with an old rpi, rc522 nfc reader and a cheap usb speaker)
Re: Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent
#18For those that love the idea of this kind of child-friendly media consumption but maybe don’t have the time, consider Yoto. You can make your own cards that can contain one track or playlists of mp3s that you drag and drop onto a web interface. The yoto then downloads and stores those files, playing them whenever that card is inserted. You can also use the ipad app to browse and play the same content.
Mighty players work great for on the go consumption as well.