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I use "NFC Tools" to write the URL, which I copy the album/song URL from Spotify and embed it. When I hold my phone near it, the URL appears in the notifications, and clicking it opens it in Spotify, which then starts playing it. I have a bag of 100 tags I got from a friend so no shortage there.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfc-tools/id1252962749 is the one I use.
This is great, I looked into doing something similar when my daughter was little. I didn't get very far and she learned how to use the remote control pretty quickly. I honestly think it was better for her to do it the 'old' way as she's pretty digitally savvy (for her age) than I would have expected. I remember when I was little I figured out how to use the VHS to set timers record shows etc, I think making things di…
> I think making things difficult is useful, it forces some learning to get a 'reward'. I found the same growing up. But at the time (the 90s) there weren't hyperstimuli available in the form of smartphones, streaming services, or engagement-optimized algorithmic content feeds. The broadcast television that was available was often boring, or at least poorly matched to any given person's interests at a given time. We…
Pet theory: This perception is largely from their confidence in messing around until something works, which has only a loose connection to the operator's competence.
Younger generations have grown up with devices that are (A) more idiot-proofed and (B) cheaper and easier to replace and (C) less supervision when using it. This leads to a different way of approaching the problem, which may be more-effective but isn't necessarily more-knowledgeable.
In contrast, older generations who grew up with "never press these two buttons at the same time or it can explode" operate with an implicit assumption that those Kids These Days must know something their parents don't in order to mess around so casually.
Really 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.
You could still have a giant library and rotate cards every week or something.
Reminded me of Yoto, an internet radio style thing for kids that uses little NFC cards.
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.
Techmoan did a video on that too (it’s how I know about both): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9RbMMJRxzw
Awesome. 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=…
This is great, I looked into doing something similar when my daughter was little. I didn't get very far and she learned how to use the remote control pretty quickly. I honestly think it was better for her to do it the 'old' way as she's pretty digitally savvy (for her age) than I would have expected. I remember when I was little I figured out how to use the VHS to set timers record shows etc, I think making things di…
In the most advanced version I had it read letters to read a word aloud (eg, a spelling tool). All so I could reenact the scene from Sneakers where they rearrange Scrabble tiles from SETEC ASTRONOMY to TOO MANY SECRETS :)