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• badatnames
  Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a schematic
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  adrianwaj
  "The card never actually transmits a message back to your phone. Instead, it changes how much energy it absorbs from the field, and your phone detects those power dips and converts them to binary data. Most NFC tags use this harvested energy only to run their internal circuitry, but some NFC chips are able to take excess DC voltage and route it out to external hardware. This business card uses that last feature."I wonder if it can be applied to robo-couriers and drone drop-offs. One of those comes to your door, you get your stuff, and you pass something that is powered-up over its sensor and it drives off. It's the equivalent of signing-off on a delivery. The sensor obtains and stores information about you as well.Maybe I've got it wrong and the recipient needs the sensor and the driver has the powered device that only switches on when it is ready to do the drop off.With this card, what are the information transfer and storage scenarios? Would be great to see a table. Can the two parties both exchange and store information with minimal power? A card with a little battery and power-on button? Card can have some type of port? Can it be be used as a crypto wallet with a kill switch in the event of a robbery or home invasion?I think this is important in Hub-and-Spoke communities (previous comment) where population densities decrease but there'll still have to be a lot of exchange going on. Offline-based interactions are a good idea too - keep the airwaves clean.
• jacquesm
  What an incredibly neat hack, congratulations. In the 80's Motorola had a challenge-response system to open doors with badges that contained a good bit of circuitry that reminds me of what you've built here. Super impressive. I never realized NFC put out so much energy that you could light a bunch of LEDs with it and power a micro controller this large.
• yegle
  For future PCB business card ideas: it would be dope if it can play audios.Gemini says you can power a piezo buzzer (causing a small bump on a PCB) w/ NFC (just enough power to drive it) to play the modem dialup handshake audio.
• k7peak
  Okay, I really like this, but I found your Easter egg, and it plays to my Ham Radio heart.
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• m4rtink
  I wonder if it could run LoRa chip & MCU long enough to send. MeshCore message. :)
• entrepy123
  Really cool. I'd love to be able to order cheap ones in packs of 5 or 10, with custom led colors/locations/sizes/brightness, fitting into a printed card...
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  Sorrel47
  My wallet has enough NFC devices already trying to talk to each other. Still, a seriously neat piece of engineering!
• danshagen
  cool project, especially as a bachelor student of EE!
• chews
  Really great project, thanks for sharing and what a well done write-up! Also kudos for including the PCB, BOM, and code on GH with a permissive license.
• thenthenthen
  Nice write up!
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