Try the newest Adafruit Studying System tutorial from Erin St Blaine: use NFC tags to create a scannable tap-to-pay hyperlink or social media hyperlink that’s cheap and straightforward to make use of. NFC tags use RFID expertise, scannable and writeable by most fashionable good telephones. It is a very cheap and straightforward technique to join with the folks round you utilizing expertise. From the information:
Are you a connector? Are you at all times handing out enterprise playing cards, sending folks to your Etsy retailer, your weblog, or your product? Do you meet folks at festivals or conventions and wish a straightforward technique to join, and keep linked? This tutorial is for you.
With an NFC tag and some clicks in a smartphone app, you’ll be able to create a necklace, necktie, hat or costume piece that not solely makes you look sharp, but in addition helps you join along with your folks. Merely faucet your necklace to a sensible telephone with NFC expertise (which is most of them, lately) and your contact data will seem on their display screen like magic.
Or, arrange a Venmo hyperlink in your NFC tag to make a tap-to-pay signal that’s even simpler in your prospects to make use of than a QR code. NFC tags supply so many prospects.
Full tutorial: https://be taught.adafruit.com/scannable-links-with-nfc/overview
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