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I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by jcul »

sandreas wrote: post #35

There are several projects here in germany doing similar things. There is https://tonies.com , which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable ( https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud ). Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmaker…

There's also yoto box, which lets you create "make your own" cards.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by xandrius »

Lovely idea but basically we got a tutorial on how to put a square onto a rectangle, print it and cut it somewhat wobbly, then profit?

More interested in the NFC side, how to flash these, how to read them, challenges, final costs, etc.

Changing the aspect ratio to fit a card is fine too, I guess?

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by viraptor »

vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #33

I love this! I prefer digital stuff (less things to worry about), but I miss the physicality, especially when friends come over. Books or CDs become a conversation. If you'd like to do something similar, but don't want to DIY it, check out Yoto Player [1]. This is a small music speaker and they sell a bunch of NFC cards to "play" them. You can also buy blank cards and use their app to add whatever you want to them (m…

Yeah, yoto works really nice for the same purpose. My kid's got lots of custom music on the blanks now. Both soundtracks from movies and custom playlists. I suspect it's going to transform into more of albums in the next years. Whether purchased or DIY, it's also a great solution to giving agency to a 3yo without something like "have an ipad with the whole spotify".

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by judge2020 »

pluto_modadic wrote: post #40

I think this skips over /how to do it/.

Writable NFC cards are pretty cheap on Aliexpress and Amazon, they're writable with most any NFC enabled phone and apps like "NFC Tools" that let you input a uri.

If you don't have a Plex server like the OP, you could use a link to the streaming service you use.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by JKCalhoun »

xandrius wrote: post #43

Lovely idea but basically we got a tutorial on how to put a square onto a rectangle, print it and cut it somewhat wobbly, then profit? More interested in the NFC side, how to flash these, how to read them, challenges, final costs, etc. Changing the aspect ratio to fit a card is fine too, I guess?

Also, there are corner-cutters you can get from a hobby store that will make a nice, clean, consistent radius on those cards.

I have this one, for example (three radii!): https://www.amazon.com/Sunstar-Kadomaru-Corner-Cutter-S47650...

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by jordanf »

housebear wrote: post #39

Love this. What are you tapping the cards onto ? What is reading that info and then pulling the music? (I'm not super savvy and can't figure it out from the writeup).

that’s the right question! i’m surprised no one has asked it yet. part 2 will be all about setting up the raspberry pi with an nfc hat and a ‘read-only’ display as the tap target.
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