Can all of us be sincere with ourselves for a second? In as we speak’s world, enterprise playing cards are a waste of time, cash, and helpful pockets actual property. When you hand somebody a enterprise card at a convention, there’s an roughly 100% likelihood that they’ll throw it away as quickly as they’re out of your line of sight. So, how are you going to assist folks bear in mind you and your attractive providers? River Wang’s answer was to construct this pleasant “CardTuber” animated enterprise card that recipients will really need to hold.
This can be a enterprise card within the sense that it’s within the acquainted type issue (width and peak) and its function is to convey skilled contact info. 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, due to a built-in microphone. And the entrance floor of the cardboard is a capacitive touchpad. Swiping a finger throughout that can trigger the show to modify to a QR code that new acquaintances can scan to search out the consumer’s socials.
After all, if we’re being practical, 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 operate is especially helpful when that is worn as a badge.
River created a web based IDE (Built-in Improvement Atmosphere) for Adafruit’s CircuitPython, so it is just pure that they selected a CircuitPython-compatible growth board for this venture. That could be a Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840, which could be very compact. It drives a monochrome 1.3” Sharp Reminiscence Show from Adafruit, which is much extra power-efficient than a standard 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 it will likely be much more memorable than a daily previous enterprise card that the recipient will overlook earlier than it even finishes settling within the rubbish can.