This is incredible! I want to replicate this at home as well, but I would prefer to use QR codes since they also support URLs. Any reason why you went with NFC instead of QR code? I assume it's doable with a raspberry pi and webcam instead of tapping?
An NFC movie library for my kids
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#72Awesome. Reminded me of Yoto, an internet radio style thing for kids that uses little NFC cards. https://us.yotoplay.com/ Techmoan reviewed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQECKOkkqk Less directly was Tonies, an audio player for kids that uses NFC on Skyrim style figures to trigger stories. https://us.tonies.com/ Techmoan did a video on that too (it’s how I know about both): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
There is also this 37C3 Talk about Tonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNufX-tss5M
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#73The movies visible in the photos in the article, and their runtimes in minutes, are: 94 The Good Dinosaur 92 Trolls 98 Wall-E 88 The Lion King 103 Moana 81 Toy Story 91 Trolls World Tour 95 Inside Out 103 Frozen II 95 A Bug's Life > We have two boys, and the eldest is permitted a 30-minute TV session in the morning and another in the evening. So...if one of them wants to watch The Lion King or Toy Story they have to…
Eh it'll probably be a reason for therapy when they're older, but the skill to say "okay, time for bed" and stop watching in the middle of something is an underrated skill.
IMO it’s at least as important to be satisfied after one thing has ended, and not start the next thing.
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#74Really awesome project. This bit made me think though: > First: you have a limited choice of movies to watch. When I was a kid, we didn't have an infinite catalog of movies to watch. Something always rubs me the wrong way with this way of thinking. "X is good because I had X when I was young." I don't necessarily disagree that X is good, but it's definitely not because you had it as a kid.
It does help with decision paralysis, which can be especially hard for young kids. Not that it’s easy as an adult. You could still have a giant library and rotate cards every week or something.
Yes, plenty of good reasons to like this project. I might buy something like it if it was off the shelf.
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#75Really awesome project. This bit made me think though: > First: you have a limited choice of movies to watch. When I was a kid, we didn't have an infinite catalog of movies to watch. Something always rubs me the wrong way with this way of thinking. "X is good because I had X when I was young." I don't necessarily disagree that X is good, but it's definitely not because you had it as a kid.
I had the same reaction. There are many reasons why I also believe OP's solution is better than the usual having a kid use the remote to navigate Disney+.
Having a curated selection instead of a near infinite catalog full of noise is one of them. Not exposing the kids to a UX optimised for retention (a.k.a. addiction) would be my main motivation though.
Because I had that as a kid, would be at the bottom of the list.
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#76The movies visible in the photos in the article, and their runtimes in minutes, are: 94 The Good Dinosaur 92 Trolls 98 Wall-E 88 The Lion King 103 Moana 81 Toy Story 91 Trolls World Tour 95 Inside Out 103 Frozen II 95 A Bug's Life > We have two boys, and the eldest is permitted a 30-minute TV session in the morning and another in the evening. So...if one of them wants to watch The Lion King or Toy Story they have to…
May depend on the kids' ages and what sort of viewer they are. As a young kid (like around age 6 and below) watching a movie episodically would've been fine for me. Time was different; I had no sense of a story arc spanning more than an hour.
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#78i found the “thanks to Hans Wurst” part funny: it is a common way to stay anonym while inputting a real sounding name, like John Doe, but nobody really has this name
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#79Man, this is such a fun project. I understand where you are coming from. You can do this with music too. There a lot of children audio books or songs where you have the same “issue” that a parent has to operate YouTube or Spotify.
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#80Really cool. But why not just have them handle the blu rays directly? Unless - you ripped them to your Plex and resold them…
Or you store them away because once you've ripped them, you no longer need access to the physical item. So there's no point on having them using up the valuable space of the living room.