“The world of the business software (for banking, insurance, services…) is boring, monotone and it is not challenging enough for me. I would like to redirect my labor situation toward a field more related with the electronic engineering, which is my real passion.”

Mmm…in this economy I’d take your boring business software job if it pays well. I’d leave my “real passion” for my off time and build what I like. Sure, you can always apply for a job elsewhere, but if you are already employed don’t jump ship until you are sure you landed the other job.

Great idea with the card BTW. Hope it gets you your dream job.

Very very nice. Wish I’d thought of that. Only one thing I might have changed would be the silkscreen color to black, just so the traces aren’t so prominent.

Is PIC24 the cheapest way to do USB nowadays?

pic18f2550 has USB built in.

wouldve thought that was cheapest?

Gotta like the idea, problem is, I hate the idea of paying $15.00 each for my business cards. You get poor quick doing that.

How about simply getting transparent plastic business cards to stand way out, and spend less than $0.50 each for them.

Although sending a business card with you’re resume is a waste of time, HR throws them in the trash. It’s looked upon as a waste of time to send a business card.

Seems the link uses a binary javascript, yeah thanks but no thanks.

I’d like to meet this guy …a few tiems XD (This hardware could be useful for me!).

I don’t think this is the sort of thing you’d just mail to an HR department.

This is something I would hand to someone in a hiring position at a more social event, or one-on-one in an interview. How badass would you look concluding an interview by saying, nonchalantly, “Oh, and here’s my card,” and thwapping down something clever like this.

wow i now have to dust off my photo etching supply. It looks like a fun way to land a job and show off your skills with prototyping even if it is inherently simple in design. Right On best post in weeks guys keep it up.

data logging business card
that will surely get him a job in telecoms

Pretty sure no recent Windows installation (since XP SP2 from memory?) will load an file on instruction from autorun.inf.

Still cool though.

Seems like a waste (money and resources) to hand these out to every customer.

You would agree that most people carry an USB memory stick with them already?

Well why not make a hand held device which acts as USB host. When the person plugs in their existing USB stick, your CV, resume, whatever transfers across automatically.

Much cheaper and greener – if you can make it!

The site went down because all the traffic. The author says a mirror has been set up. It’s in t4f.org and not http://www.t4f.org at the moment. I have noticed him.

Hmmm… If a company has a reasonably security conscious sysadmin, autorun has probably been disabled through the group policy since this card has the same sort of behavior that various malware strains have. This seems kind of risky to spend that kind of money on since you’d probably look really dumb if it didn’t work. And if it did work… Social engineering attack anyone?

Cool idea though.

I think a more elegant solution would be to shape one of the corners just enough so it can go into the USB-connector.