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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 jordanf »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #47
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...

sweet! thank you

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

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Post by bobthepanda »

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…

CDs are now actually also joining vinyls in being revived for physical merch purposes. They're no longer needed, but if you want them they are available for purchase.

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

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Post by jordanf »

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?

alright fair feedback.

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

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Post by jordanf »

yegle wrote: post #48

Hmm w/o using Plex, I think the same can be done using a RasPi w/ an NFC reader to send a command to a remote MPD server to start casting to my Google Home devices. The NFC tag to album mapping can be managed using a plaintext file.

cool bro

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

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

bobthepanda wrote: post #52
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…

CDs are now actually also joining vinyls in being revived for physical merch purposes. They're no longer needed, but if you want them they are available for purchase.

They're needed if you want proper digital copies for gapless album playback. You can't trust anybody to get that right.

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

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Post by cpcampbell »

Very nice! I built a similar system with my young kids a few years ago called Qrocodile [1], which used a RPi (inside a custom Lego model) to control our Sonos system by reading QR codes printed on small cards. QR worked well because they're cheap to print. We printed a couple hundred album/song cards (each with album art) and a number of control cards. Fun project. Source code and all the instructions (for server, client, and card generator) are in the GitHub project [2].

[1] https://labonnesoupe.org/2018/02/14/introducing-qrocodile/ [2] https://github.com/chrispcampbell/qrocodile

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

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Post by jordanf »

cpcampbell wrote: post #56

Very nice! I built a similar system with my young kids a few years ago called Qrocodile [1], which used a RPi (inside a custom Lego model) to control our Sonos system by reading QR codes printed on small cards. QR worked well because they're cheap to print. We printed a couple hundred album/song cards (each with album art) and a number of control cards. Fun project. Source code and all the instructions (for server, c…

cool!

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

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Post by doug_durham »

Seems like an excuse to play with NFC tags. These types of articles come off as sanctimonious. There is nothing superior about the cards. On a phone or computer you can get complete liner notes for any song. All of that is missing from this system. You don't need to justify working on a pet project. Just do it. It doesn't have to be "superior". It's ok if it's dumb.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

doug_durham wrote: post #58

Seems like an excuse to play with NFC tags. These types of articles come off as sanctimonious. There is nothing superior about the cards. On a phone or computer you can get complete liner notes for any song. All of that is missing from this system. You don't need to justify working on a pet project. Just do it. It doesn't have to be "superior". It's ok if it's dumb.

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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 anigbrowl »

doug_durham wrote: post #58

Seems like an excuse to play with NFC tags. These types of articles come off as sanctimonious. There is nothing superior about the cards. On a phone or computer you can get complete liner notes for any song. All of that is missing from this system. You don't need to justify working on a pet project. Just do it. It doesn't have to be "superior". It's ok if it's dumb.

It is a bit of a humblebrag, like many parenting articles, but it's nice that he made something for his kid even if it basically an effort to pass on his own musical taste rather than investigate what cool new things are happening below the marketing radar of today's industry. I do wonder if it might not have been more involving to just get hold of an old record/cassette player and take the kid to the nearest used music store, but hey.
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