Can all of us be sincere with ourselves for a second? In at this time’s world, enterprise playing cards are a waste of time, cash, and worthwhile pockets actual property. Should you hand somebody a enterprise card at a convention, there’s an roughly 100% likelihood that they are going to throw it away as quickly as they’re out of your line of sight. So, how will you assist folks bear in mind you and your engaging providers? River Wang’s answer was to construct this pleasant “CardTuber” animated enterprise card that recipients will really need to maintain.
This can be a enterprise card within the sense that it’s within the acquainted type issue (width and peak) and its goal is to convey skilled contact data. However as an alternative of flimsy cardstock and embossed faux-calligraphy, it’s a slab of PCB that shows an animated avatar. That’s an illustrated illustration of the proprietor and its mouth strikes together with theirs, because of a built-in microphone. And the entrance floor of the cardboard is a capacitive touchpad. Swiping a finger throughout that may trigger the show to change to a QR code that new acquaintances can scan to seek out the person’s socials.
In fact, if we’re being sensible, it’s unlikely that River will hand these enterprise playing cards out. They take an excessive amount of money and time to construct. That’s why River designed CardTuber to double as a maker badge, which they will put on on a lanyard at occasions. The QR code swipe perform is especially helpful when that is worn as a badge.
River created a web based IDE (Built-in Growth Atmosphere) for Adafruit’s CircuitPython, so it is just pure that they selected a CircuitPython-compatible growth board for this challenge. That may be a Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840, which could be very compact. It drives a monochrome 1.3” Sharp Reminiscence Show from Adafruit, which is way extra power-efficient than a traditional LCD. Energy comes from a small 2302 coin cell battery. And, lastly, the touchpad is a part of the PCB that makes up the physique of the enterprise card.
We will’t promise that CardTuber will land you that large contract, however we’re assured in saying that will probably be way more memorable than an everyday outdated enterprise card that the recipient will neglect earlier than it even finishes settling within the rubbish can.