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Audio integration
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Manufacturing reference
What this reference shows, and what you would decide.
The same tag driven idea in a sealed character body with no figure sitting on top.
Reading through a closed shell puts the antenna behind plastic, so the wall thickness and any metal or magnet near the reading face become part of the electrical design. A concentric surface pattern like the one on the top face is a way to tell a child where to present a card without printing an instruction on the product. Moulded side details are separate parts and separate attachment points.
This is the reference to use when the content carrier is a card or a disc rather than a figure, and the product has to look like one closed object. Decide early where the read zone is, how the child knows it is there, and what the unit does when it is handed an unknown tag.
Decisions this product type puts in front of you
- Tag format and encoding Settle the chip family, the data written to each tag and who writes it. Encoding in the factory and encoding in your own warehouse lead to different tooling, different packing and different ways of fixing a mistake.
- Where the antenna sits Read distance is decided by the antenna, the surrounding plastic and any metal or magnet near it. Fix the reading position in the sculpt so a child gets the same result every time rather than hunting for a sweet spot.
- Growing the library Plan how title twenty reaches a product sold with title one. Fixed onboard sets, downloadable packs and reprintable tags are three different businesses, and the enclosure has to be designed for whichever one you pick.
- Power and standby A reader that listens all day drains a cell. Decide the wake behaviour, the idle timeout and whether the product charges or takes replaceable cells before the case is tooled around a battery.
- Safety and certification Tags and figures that leave the product are separate parts with their own size, coating and pull test questions. Set the age grade and the markets before you fix the figure size.
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- How many titles ship in the box and how many the library should reach.
- Whether tags sit in figures, cards or discs, and who encodes them.
- Audio languages, and whether the tracks are licensed or original.
- Destination markets and the age grade you intend to print.
- Quantity and how replacement tag sets are sold.
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Functions
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Presentation
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