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<p>[QUOTE="Lane Walker, post: 4011749, member: 92357"]Would 'about 85k lines of code' be an acceptable answer?</p><p><br /></p><p>JK! Very cool to hear that you are thinking of kicking around NFC. Please consider reaching out if you have any questions or issues as you pursue this.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for PixelStix vs NFC or PixelStix vs QRcodes (for that matter) you can think of PixelStix as a software platform that sits atop NFC. That is, it offers a IPhone/Android-agnostic way to extend what NFC can do. With NFC you can assign a URL to a tag but the experience for assigning and viewing is very different across phone platforms. I'm also pretty sure that assigning content to NFC is barely functional in the iPhone world? Either way, this all works with PixelStix plus weird things like:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Knowing the location of each scan of your coin. hint-hint anti-theft</p><p>2. Allow you to run analytics of scans. Think of this as a show. How valuable would it be to know which coin people looked at the most? Do people scan my greek or roman coins more?</p><p>3. Create scavenger hunts with your coins (odd but possible) by placing them in a city and adding them to a map.</p><p>4. Use a coin as a means to broadcast information to other coins. Yes, you can vlog to your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these may seem like odd uses for a coin but In the future, NFC will be seen in a similar way that the Altair was seen once personal computers arrived on the scene. Clever but nowhere as useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are in the US, happy to send you a few for you to play with as you explore NFC. Cheers![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lane Walker, post: 4011749, member: 92357"]Would 'about 85k lines of code' be an acceptable answer? JK! Very cool to hear that you are thinking of kicking around NFC. Please consider reaching out if you have any questions or issues as you pursue this. As for PixelStix vs NFC or PixelStix vs QRcodes (for that matter) you can think of PixelStix as a software platform that sits atop NFC. That is, it offers a IPhone/Android-agnostic way to extend what NFC can do. With NFC you can assign a URL to a tag but the experience for assigning and viewing is very different across phone platforms. I'm also pretty sure that assigning content to NFC is barely functional in the iPhone world? Either way, this all works with PixelStix plus weird things like: 1. Knowing the location of each scan of your coin. hint-hint anti-theft 2. Allow you to run analytics of scans. Think of this as a show. How valuable would it be to know which coin people looked at the most? Do people scan my greek or roman coins more? 3. Create scavenger hunts with your coins (odd but possible) by placing them in a city and adding them to a map. 4. Use a coin as a means to broadcast information to other coins. Yes, you can vlog to your coin. Some of these may seem like odd uses for a coin but In the future, NFC will be seen in a similar way that the Altair was seen once personal computers arrived on the scene. Clever but nowhere as useful. If you are in the US, happy to send you a few for you to play with as you explore NFC. Cheers![/QUOTE]
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