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aha! So there is a catch. Still worth checking out.

Oh wow, that's dedication

Yes please! Email me? jonah@wyldcard.io

Good point. It would almost make too much sense if GameStop's next crazy investment was an actual game. I'd go along with any crypto stuff they want if they give me a million bux :D

Oh oh, gotcha. I only ever watched a few episodes when it was on TV in the US. And then a few more episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged ;)

I'm going to have to look into that

Yeah!

A few comments have mentioned being able to refresh the cards while upside down, or covered by another. Maybe my next prototype can put the contacts on the edges and have them wrap around or pass through, so they work on both sides.

That will be a bit more complexity for fabrication, but sounds like a fun project.

Adding to my list of fictional card games, thanks!

Thanks!

Pogo pins were too expensive, I'm (totally mis)using spring fingers.

Oh, if you were willing to spend $50 a card, I think you can get them down to the thickness of a credit card.

If you are willing to spend even more, you could bundle the card circuitry with the silicon embedded in the e-ink display already, and there are FPC e-ink displays. So it'd be about half the thickness of a credit card and flexible!

(at that point, we'd need to change the plinth interface, probably go for NFC like people are mentioning in these comments)

The whole game development community is embracing ai image synthesis, especially for prototyping.

Oh for sure, I'm hoping to inspire the game developer community. I know a lot of things using electronics have been tried in the past and it usually comes out as a gimmick, but I tried to design these to hide their electronic nature, hoping to enter the same spot that dice and counters inhabit.

I was going to post about it on some game dev forums next, any suggestions of where I should post?

They don't do wireless as of now, they have to sit on the plinth to get an update. There are options for how to add some form of wireless connectivity.

I'd be interested in continuing the conversation, I'll send you an email, or email me: jonah@wyldcard.io

Thanks! You get it!

Animations seem to be a tricky prospect for e-ink displays. Definitely possible, but may require more expensive hardware? I've seen pebble watches and remarkable tablets which can do it amazingly well, maybe I just need better firmware...

I think the road to a new ubiquitous technology often starts with toys.

Ooh yeah, that's doable.

Ah yeah, I played Slay the Spire.

I still maintain that it's lame to implement the concepts tied to physical playing cards in a computer that can simulate anything. It's funny how Slay the Spire is a card game which got popular as a computer game and then later made the transition to a physical card game, bringing us full-circle.

I've enjoyed his videos :D I guess, sure I could try DM'ing him.

I didn't realize NFC could deliver enough power for that. I'll look into it.

Ooh yes!!

Oh, the screen alone is less than $10.

Bought off Alibaba, I think they're so cheap because they're designed for grocery store shelf price tags.

Good Display GDEW029T5D

Heh, the screens I use are exactly the ones contained in those products.

Huh, the battery lasts for ten years? I wonder how many refreshes you get for that. Maybe I should just be using those.....

I'm down to make it fully hackable.

The trick would be an easy interface for writing to them. They don't have batteries, so you need to send all the power to them along with information.

The trick then, would be making an easy way to write images to them. Maybe a phone attachment...

I hadn't thought of a Scrabble style card holder, good idea.

Ah yeah, I think the game design community mostly uses tabletop simulator and one other such program for testing out ideas. Being able to deploy to both is a good idea.

oh dang! I'd totally sell the cards, for less than that even. Sign up for the mailing list on wyldcard.io and if you shoot me an email I'll totally sell you cards, and even a base station (though those are pricier)

jonah@wyldcard.io

Hadn't seen that one! Will check it out.

Yeah, I know. I've been trying to design it in a way to push costs down the whole time, but it's still a far cry from paper. My idea was to target $80 for a "starter kit", making it the equivalent purchase of a video game.

For interested parties needing to program, I could probably partner with them and do the development myself (or have employees do it). The real hard part is designing a game, the software to run it will be pretty basic to start with, once I write the general framework for taking turns, etc.

Pretty much any image you want, but it's only 4-color greyscale and pretty low resolution. I'd have to make a nicer UX than the current "scp the images onto the raspberry pi" setup I have now.