Magic Cards (not those) 🪄

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This idea was really cool to me, finally a way to let the kids play their fave songs.

So I started down this path and the box has taken a few forms and loved in every stage.

Here’s the original place I found it:

So I ordered all the things. Followed the instructions and made my own interface and cards.

it was VERY basic at first. NFC cards with tape and an old canvas I shoved the reader and hardware into.

I also decided to connect it to Home Assistant so the link to that is here:

Home Assistant Community – Magic Cards

It eventually got moved directly into Home Assistant in the form of NFC cards so I spun down the Magic-Cards system and just built it directly into my Home Assistant setup. This was much easier to manage as my system was already connected to SONOS.

Next was Making it LOok BetTer. Which I did with Avery Labels and Legos. That old Combo.

these are the cards I ended up using, and I feel like they turned out nicely. you can also peel the stickers off and reuse them if you don’t want that card anymore.

I built a Lego boombox you could open up to put all the hardware in, with a place to display a card at the top. SLICK. And finally I made a little Lego Box for the cards