🫙 What If Your Object Could Talk? 👁️ Tap This. — An NFC + Vibecoding Workshop 🧲 Your Object Is an Interface (It Just Doesn't Know Yet)

Bring an object. Stick an NFC tag on it. Spend 45 minutes vibecoding it to life — no prior experience required.

We live surrounded by mute objects — things that sit there, doing nothing, waiting. This workshop is about breaking that silence. Using NFC tags as the physical trigger and AI-assisted coding as the creative engine, you'll turn something ordinary into something that responds, surprises, or tells a story. The gap between a physical object and a digital experience has never been smaller. All it takes is a tap.

Bring any physical object — a toy, a rock, a plant, a bottle, something weird, something you found on the street. Bring your laptop and an LLM subscription. Bring an NFC-capable smartphone. NFC tags are provided. The only other thing you need is one idea: what should happen when that object wakes up?

We'll start with a quick show & tell, then cover NFC basics in 15 minutes — how tags work, how to write a URL to one, how to read it on your phone. Then 45 minutes of vibecoding: build a webpage, a mini game, a soundscape, a prompt, whatever the object is asking for. Instructors will float and unblock. At the end, you write your URL to the tag, stick it on your object, and pass it around the room. Everyone taps everyone else's. That moment — when a stranger picks up your thing and taps it — is the whole point.

Materials provided: NFC tags (NTAG213), NFC writer app, ITP shop tools. You'll walk away with a working, tappable prototype and a new way of looking at every object around you.

What you need to bring

1. An object you'd like to bring to life — a mug, a keychain, a little toy, anything you can tap

2. Your phone — most phones already have NFC built in, and you'll use it to tap and test

3. A laptop, if you'd like to link your object to a website. If you can, set up a free account on a vibecoding tool (Claude, Lovable, v0, etc.) beforehand so we can dive right in.