NFC lights up LEDs on Teddy

I just made a simple mock up/demo for NFC toys which LED powered by the RF power from smartphone. The NFC tag launched the Tapogram app, and the coil separately lit up 2 LEDs. No battery is needed for Teddy bear. The power is small but enough to trigger wake up for other circuit. We can design a lot other applications which can interact with smartphones.

e.g. toys figure, model, smart poster or banner, board game, etc.

NFC Figures for the New Pokemon Game

Nintendo released the Wii U game Pokemon Scramble U together with a set of cute NFC Pokemon figures. Every one of them can be loaded into the game with a special ability and an initial strength value. There are now 16 types of them and even for figures of the same type, their special ability and strength value can be different.

The NFC Pokemon figures are designed to be loaded throughout our gaming experience. Everytime when we finish our game, we earn coins and can use those coins in helping our Pokemon to learn new Pokemon-specific special abilities and increase their strength value. Then the growth of our Pokemon can be recorded back to the NFC Pokemon figure again. More than that, we can choose a title for our NFC Pokemon figure. For example, if we give a title "Fast" for our Pokemon, it will move faster during the game. In this way, every one of us can have our unique Pokemon!

Other than the NFC Pokemon figures, we can also try to use contactless smartcard to load other Pokemon as temporary helping hand in the game.

The NFC on my favorite One-piece Figure

Today, I am trying to use a 9mm diameter NFC Tag on my favorite one-piece figure....see below video and it is much easier to understand.

This 9mm diameter NFC is the smallest I have. It looks better than any 25mm diameter label, black in colour is also a plus. The only bad thing is the closer read range so you may find it a bit harder to scan it.

I have this figure sitting on my work desk. I can go to the one-piece website during my work if I like but its kind of cool if  I can just tap on the figure and use my phone to browse.

I personally hate any kind of bookmark...because I will never organize them and end up a mess.

It is my first time to do such an video, using Stupeflix to finish this video. Its quite easy to compose a video by putting pictures together.



Link:
Tag: HKRHT-J04 from HK-RFID
NFC App: NFC Quick Action