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Comment by gcapu | Hacker News Reader

Amazing project, but the font on the back of the card is gross.

That’s cred, man. Real cred.

Wack font. Circuits exposed. Pixels with fat borders between them. An ugly charging port. But more stuff, packed into a small sleek volume than reasonably possible. Working perfectly.

That’s not Jobs. Oh, no. It’s effing Woz.

The guy is a true hardware engineer.

For the most part I agree, but the purpose of a business card is to be read. You can barely read that text.

The render is pretty gnarly, but it's not quite that bad in person

https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card/blob/main/me...

The card is so impressive that it doesn’t matter much, but I think that if you remove half of the text in that card and make it very legible it would burn your name into people’s brain.

The card should not have any text on it, but show his info on the screen when the card is first shaken, and after it has been held still for 4 seconds, before going to sleep after another 10 seconds of no motion.

It sort of reminds me of those research professors that have received multiple awards and their website is an unstyled HTML page with 4 links

Sort of, but if the objective is to get hired for a hardware design job, I think that even the font aside, the overall aesthetics of the PCB aren't great. There are several places where component text overlaps other markings, some components are slightly offset from others for no reason, the pattern of stitching vias is pretty chaotic... I think it's actually the software part of it that's most worthwhile.

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