Make Big Profits with High-Tech NFC Keychains in Minutes

we just made some high tech high profit keychains in a matter of minutes smart keychains and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it so do we and we have new videos each week this week we're doing keychains and I know what you're thinking you're thinking exactly what I was thinking when Kim said "Hey you want to do some keychains boring." But thank you kim was like "Now we're going to make some high techch keychains that you could even make some of them be jokes." And I was like "What do you mean?" She goes "We're going to scan paying attention now." Yeah she said "We'll be able to scan the the little keychains and take you to a URL or a contact card." And I was like "Oh meme time." Yeah he was in then he was in then I had his attention rfid stands for radio frequency identification and a subset of that is NFC which is near field communication so RFID is the huge umbrella and that's what folks use or big companies use for asset tracking tagging things in a warehouse that's what you're going to use RFID you've seen those spiral stickers that are on items that's an RFID tag we're going to use NFC tags to make our smart keychains nfc tags are things like you tapless pay or if you have to scan an ID badge to get in a building or inside of a room that is also NFC and that's so easy to do you'd think that was technology that us as small business crafters or owners wouldn't be able to utilize but we can and I'm going to show you how today it's going to be so simple so let me tell you a little bit more about these tags i just ordered these off of Amazon you can order them off of Amazon there's different types of NFC tags so when you go on there I don't want you to get confused we have a couple of types here and I'll show you when we get ready to assemble but the basics of these is there's NFC 213 215 and 216 whatever it takes whatever it takes so the difference between the three of them is simply data storage size so a 213 tag is going to give you what you need for scanning uh websites contact cards and things like that it's going to be fine so one of these is 213 one of these is 215 this just has a little bit more storage i have the numbers here 144 bytes 504 bytes and the 216 is the big one and that is 888 bytes now another interesting So why would you need the different bytes to store more information okay so different types of things that you might store on there but for what we're doing I'm not going to get too deep into it we're storing websites contact cards uh links to videos things like that and the 213 and the 215 are going to be just fine for what we're doing now can you password protect these things yes i was just getting ready to say that so both both versions why do you ask Garrett i don't know just maybe if I happen upon an RFID tag that isn't secure I just reprogram it like maybe I want to send somebody's menus to I don't know cat meme or maybe ah Rick rolling [Music] so yes you can password protect them it's something to think about normally you just say "Oh I'll tap it i'll get to you take you to my Etsy store i'll take you to my website take you to my YouTube channel." Whatever it might be you just would tap it but you don't want somebody coming along knowing what they're doing understanding what the technology is and changing that tap to something else because you can do that so yes you can password protect them so that if somebody taps it and says "Hey I want a rewrite." It's going to ask you for a password okay so does everybody know they can password protect them well they do now no I don't think so okay i don't maybe you'll have to maybe test it we'll do some real world testing i'll let you know step one we're going to gather all of our supplies we needed some acrylic because we're making acrylic keychains so we have some scraps that we're going to try to squeeze some keychains out of well they're not scraps something to think about these were actually um items in our goodie bag from the Next Level Laser Conference last year they're sample packs that came in our goodie bag so little shout out to Next Level Laser Conference we're going to be there we're going to be Oh we're going to be presenting yes we're going to be teaching a little class or session so definitely come by and see us but you know don't waste these materials that you get because I'm going to make four keychains out of these little Well that I can make even more out of yeah I'm going to make a bunch i'm making four out of these little four uh what are these like four inch scraps here or three inch scraps I think is what they are yes about right yeah that's about right you could probably use wood or MDF i'm using acrylic i think it'll look cooler yes so you can use acrylic you can use wood but you can't use metal so I guess you can't because it blocks the signal that's right because it's conductive and you can't use a conductive material no because it's a radio ID tag okay all right i get it now you can buy special RFID tags for metal but we don't need to go into all that you guys can do a little research on that we're just crafters making keychains today well I get it now because my badge back when I had a day job had a little fairday cage it would sit in i guess it was so it couldn't be scanned outside of work there you go yes yes so all right what else do we need we needed some 3M tape or double-sided tape we're using this Elizabeth Craft Designs double-sided tape right 3m tape is what you see most often we've had this roll we've been using this roll and we're still using this roll so it's just easier i'm going to slap it on the back of this before I even cut it out that way I can just slap all my pieces together we're just going to slap a lot of slapping it's just And of course you need your RFID tags now let me show you what these little guys look like in this bag i'm sure you know what they look like if you've ever peeled a little sticker off of uh something that came in the store yes but I wanted to show you that I got two types so that you guys know what they look like raw yes and I can't get mine open why can't I get it open oh wow these are a lot smaller than I thought they were oh I got so many more ideas now there are I thought they were like a 1 in by 1 in square these things are like maybe a/4 in by 1/2 in yes I got those on purpose because they were little guys and then I got regular circle ones yes these are circles i don't know how well you can see them on camera so just a little white circle but you can see that the metal that seems to have more area this is the one that has more memory it is okay all right i got you so I wonder how big the 800's are are those probably an inch and a half i don't know i didn't look those up i didn't need that much all right well these little guys will these little guys will hold a URL right yeah yeah url contact pretty much anything you need to do i mean the URL is all I need oh my gosh so we're going to use these little tags i got two different ones they're super paper thin so I can't wait to show you uh you can sandwich it between things and you won't even know it's in there ooh like you could tag people you could tag things all right step two and that is it step two we're going to make our cut file i've actually already created a cut file for you if you join us over on Patreon it's going to be free for all our patron members for all tiers everybody gets it for free jump on for free woo jump on over to our Patreon page and it has all the social media icons on there so this one is Instagram it also has Facebook Tik Tok YouTube yeah YouTube all of them there's a whole bunch of them in there use any of those and create any of these into a little keychain and I think it's a great thing it doesn't just have to say if this says Instagram or shows the Instagram logo but it actually takes you to our linkree page which is going to have all of our socials but it lets people know this is a social media icon and it makes them ask the question what does it do what does it do step three we're going to make all of our cuts we're going to slap some of this 3M tape on the back of the acrylic there's a lot of slapping going on and then we're going to throw it in our X tool P2S to cut it out now I usually use standoffs when I'm cutting acrylic but because I have some of this double-sided tape on the back I don't really need to worry about flashback so I'm just going to throw it in there right on the uh slats slats some metal slats it's not a honeycomb bed in there right now it's a metal slats at right now [Music] here we are in creative space this is why I love the camera on the P2 here because you can use your close-up view and I can make sure everything is lined up on these small pieces of acrylic i can throw three pieces of acrylic in and have three different cuts done at one time on three different materials we're going to use the red layer as the cut layer the blue layer is the score layer and then I'm going to use for all three pieces of acrylic here i'm using the glitter acrylic settings from X Tool [Music] step four time to assemble we're going to take one of these little RFID stickers put it in between on the sticky side these two pieces of acrylic we're going to mash them together then we're going to put the little logo on it done i think the hardest part was removing the masking all right well before I do that let me take off my little transfer tape here oh true let's take off the transfer tape on both big pieces of acrylic right we didn't really have to put it on both sides but we did so that way it's extra stuck together now I'm going to take one of my little RFID stickers peas you know what this reminds me of remember those dots that you'd get on the wax on the paper you'd eat the dots off the paper mine is have a name this is like paper paper thin it is you're not going to see it in there mine is also paper thin so I've added it and now I'm going to sandwich it there's mine and now my Tik Tok logo goes on here yes and I'm going to put YouTube logo on mine score marks are kind of hard to see oh but you know what I just learned what once it's down it's down the tape is pretty sticky i like to shift a little bit and that's where that's where it lives now all right it's one shot you got one shot kid oh about to put on the wrong side one shot kid make it count well that's tricky for this one because you're right on this pink acrylic I can't see the score marks that well all right let's do it for final assembly we're using these little keychain thingies they go in this little hole that Kim made at the top it kind of makes them look a little more professional and it's a lot easier than trying to get that spiral keychain ring around this thing without trying to break it super easy i love these the keychain thingies come in like all kinds of colors this bag did I got a little variety pack i think I'm going to go with white white to match the Yeah do I have a bunch of white ones yep yeah you just pop one side in and then pop the other side through it's in they're a lot more sturdy than I thought they'd be they look like silicone but they're more like a a plastic well this one's a little more like [Music] silicone so cute but wait there's more step five time for a little programming kim downloaded a free app that she's going to use to program or assign some data to each one of these little key tags it is super easy it is not difficult at all anyone can do it we're going to show you exactly how to program one of these tiles right now now let's take a peek at a phone so we're going to click on this NFC tools it's a free download Apple or Android and you can read write other and task so we're going to write we're going to add a record and then it comes with all of these types of records text URLs uh video all your social networks so if I just want to click Instagram I can email contact card phone numbers uh sends a text message location so many different things already programmed in here program a Wi-Fi network we're just going to do a URL because we're putting in our link tree so I just pasted in the link tree information https is already here and at the beginning just start with www hit okay now it knows what I want to put in there and I'm going to say write so I got to approach an NFC tag there's that write complete okay and that is it all right can now tap it to check it all right ready mhm so I'm just gonna I don't have to do anything i don't have to have any special app open on my phone i'm just going to get close to it and it's going to immediately pull up our link tree and that's it that's all there is to it now this is such a great easy project you can make a fun keychain and make it functional it's perfect for a small business you can make jewelry you can make lanyards yeah i mean you can make a whole booth of these where you can program them personalize right there boom bam boom figure out some kind of website or whatever to send them to but everybody's got an Instagram now everybody has a Facebook i mean if you can put their Facebook on the tag right at the booth hey what's your Insta and you just give them your little boop NFC tag have them boop follow me yep there you go yeah that is pretty cool i I am super stoked on these now i have so many ideas i can't wait to see what you guys do i want you to come back post it on our Facebook group show me what you've made and I'm going to show you what I'm going to make because DJ Derek has already contracted me to make him some keychains and I feel like he's going to be up to no good big thanks to all of our patrons we love you guys and that is the best way to support this channel that is a great community over there and speaking of community we have the jamboree coming up June 6th 7 8th yes yep it's our K&G come and join us it's a way for everyone to get together network in a casual fun environment we're going to do make and take sessions all day long you're going to build your own goodie bag to take with you we're going to have some fun in the evening little games little music it's going to be a great time come and hang out for a weekend we have a bunch of great vendors and sponsors that will be attending we have Eon X tool a logo jet we have the Riley Black Project will be in the house we have Josh with Lonear Adhesive we have Katie with Monarch Pine who else we have kim Houston Acrylic cnb acrylic we've got And we even have a special guest that you'll have to show up and find out well I'm about out of time i have a bunch of keychains that I have to make for DJ Derek he's got something he wants to say and we will see you on Sunday where we'll have another Sunday studio session it's live and Tuesday for Tuscup Tuesday