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And then the issue of when the streaming service removes the choice; the card become obsolete. Not that bad of a ordeal though.
With only a little bit of effort you can prevent them from becoming obsolete. Most straightforward way is to just reprogram the nfc chip. Alternatively, Just add a redirector, one that maps show names/ids to the urls.
An NFC movie library for my kids
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#102This is really awesome - just had my first kid, and I think I’ll do something similar. Well done OP!
Thank you and congrats! Enjoy the ride!
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#104Heck, even as an adult I would enjoy something like this. I love the idea.
Same here! I have debated making something similar for my personal music collection. I used to meticulously organize my albums in iTunes and listen to them in full. Somehow I stopped doing that with Spotify. The magic of the album is gone for me.
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#105We are on a forum filled with people working on these super addicting infinite scroll technologies at YouTube, Instagram, maybe even TikTok. At the same time though, this post removing all these addictive technologies has reached the #1 spot on HN (and HN is deliberately made without any of this addicting tech!!)
I think it is time for people to really realize how addicting the tech they are making is, without masking it with words like 'friction' and 'engagement'. And hopefully they will slowly work on making their tech a little bit less addictive.
Before Covid we had some kind of movement like this, but it has sadly dwindled.
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#106Dang, the level of engineering to recreate what is essentially a VHS
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#107Really cool. But why not just have them handle the blu rays directly? Unless - you ripped them to your Plex and resold them…
Fair question! I have all the disks. They're in the garage gathering dust.
My kids are 3 and 2, so letting them handle the disks isn't a great idea right now. Might do that one day though!
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#108This 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?
Also in this case (since it just laminated cards anyway) the usability is much easier. The kid just has to touch something. While with a QR it has to be positioned in a way that a camera can see and focus to it.
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#109PS: I will also publish my solution once I rewrite a few parts of it (cleanup).