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(Image credit: Mads Chr. Olesen ) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google “ Floppy disks are the best storage media ever invented,” claims tech tinkerer and maker Mads Chr. Olesen. The devoted dad has made it his mission to prove that assertion to his three-year-old son, by making an easy, tactile, Smart TV control system that is fed by these distinctive physical manifestations of the save icon. Say hello to the FloppyDiskCast smart TV remote system for kids.
Modern Smart TV controls are disempowering for toddlers, reckons Olesen. The maker considers the bundled remote control, or using smart device controls, to introduce too much ‘noise’ and distraction to the use of a Smart TV. The tile-based UIs may even cause little ones to develop short attention spans – if they can even successfully navigate the interfaces.
(Image credit: Mads Chr. Olesen ) (Image credit: Mads Chr. Olesen ) The Smart TV meets toddler problem played on Olesen’s mind, until he decided that kids would benefit from the floppy disk experience of yore. Putting the idea into practice, the first idea of using a floppy shell to enclose an RFID tag was set aside. Olesen wanted the floppy disk remote control device to exhibit the authentic “click, whirrr, brrr brrr,” feedback that veteran users of this portable removable storage media were familiar with.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers-projects/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers-projects/floppy-disk-drive-converted-into-smart-tv-remote-for-kids-devs-toddler-inserts-vividly-labeled-floppies-to-watch-his-favorite-shows#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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