Business cards, on the whole, haven’t changed significantly over the past 600-ish years, and arguably are not as important as they used to be, but they are still worth considering as a reminder for someone to contact you. If the format of that card and method of contact stand out as unique and related to your personal or professional interests, you have a winning combination that will cement yourself in the recipient’s memory.
In a case study of “show, don’t tell”, [Binh]’s business card draws on technological and paranormal curiosity, blending affordable, short-run PCB manufacturing and an, LLM or, in this case, a Small Language Model, with a tiny Ouija board. While [Binh] is very much with us in the here and now, and a séance isn’t really an effective way to get a hold of him, the interactive Ouija card gives recipient’s a playful demonstration of his skills.
The interface is an array of LEDs in the classical Ouija layout, which slowly spell out the message your supernatural contact wants to communicate. The messages are triggered by the user through touch pads. Messages are generated locally by an ESP32-S3 based on Dave Bennett’s TinyLlama LLM implementation.
For a bit of a role reversal in Ouija communication, check out this Ouija robot. For more PCB business card inspiration, have a look at this pong-playing card and this Arduboy-inspired game console card.
Thanks to [Binh] for sharing this project with us.
I always pronounced it “wee-jee”, like Fiji.
It’s a melee, wee-jee!
“Look at this guy’s business card, it has an AI LLM with a tiny speaker and microphone, able to talk philosophy with whoever opens it, basically Aristotle running for months on a CR2032”
“Look at this guy’s business card, it’s a tiny spider drone which attaches itself to a potato and runs on electrolytes while performing a crab dance and being a Wi-Fi hotspot”
“Oh, look at that guy’s card, it’s a smart card which, when inserted into any ATM, let’s you play solitaire on it. And if you win it gives you real money.”
“And what am I doing? Scrolling messages on a LED matrix display? I got zero chance in this economy”
I love these card projects, and kudos to Binh.
I can almost see a magic-8 ball arduino LLM now.
This is a form of “divination”. It is demonic !
There exists a wall between realms for a reason.
Opening a door to that realm is forbidden and a grave sin.
Many, albeit “anecdotal” stories of what happens
when that barrier is violated.
In the words of John Bennett: “you are messing with powers you don’t understand !”
Demons don’t exist. There are no other realms. Sin isn’t a thing. Chill.