āIām sorry, Dave. Iām afraid I canāt do thatā
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Yes for that, the rest is a bit different, theoretically of course.
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Iām intrigued! Canāt wait to see it!
Since youāve got experience with making android apps, any tutorials youād recommend for getting started? Iāve got a couple Udemy courses Iāve bookmarked. Now that Iāve got more free time, I want to get back into programming and work on Skannerz clone.
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Coding on Unity is inherently multiplatform, that means you can build the same game to pc or android with ease. Hence you donāt really need to learn anything android specific but rather learn how to use Unity. For that I wouldnāt recommend paying for courses. Unity is a very community driven platform and has a LOT of online resources. Unity themselves has a pretty extensive collection of code-along tutorials and there are many well established unity tutorial channels.
Brackeys is probably the most famous and has quality content but I just donāt like him personally so not my favorite.
Blackthornprod on the other hand I like a lot and is very inspiring for me.
But above all, Sebastian Lagueās coding adventures will show you the true potential of a game engine which I think is much more important than step by step tutorials if you already have some familiarity with coding.
I know this is all unity specific but thatās my jam 
Things you want to look into once you start scripting: Events, Coroutines and Scriptable Objects
One last thing: if you use a game engine, take the time to understand how itās made and why itās made the way it is. Maybe watch a 40min superficial video on game engine architecture. Everything will make more sense and your learning curve will improve drastically.
Donāt 
Iām not commiting to this until the basics of my nfc app are finished and by then things might have changed
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Thank you! Iāll watch a video about Unity, then look up those channels!
Iām stuck in TX and CA til the middle of next month when I can get back to my PC, but itāll give me time to expand my knowledge of Unity beyond knowing what their title screen looks like when I launch a game XD
Well I am more intrigued by your NFC app than the NFC game, so Iām fine with that! Lol
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It really demonstrates inconvenience as deterrence, I think they forgot people without cars exist though.
Anyone know when are the FlexLungs coming out?
Iām getting a little fed up with needles in my butt for bronchitis/pneumonia every year lol
Curse the person who came up with the idea for injecting meds in peopleās butts! 
Also, on an unrelated note because the lung issues are definitely NOT my faultā¦I need to quit smoking lol
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Nicotine is insidious. I smoked for a decade and the last five years were spent trying to quit. What finally worked for me was patches until I hit the smallest one then those foul tasting lozenges until I just didnāt want them anymoreā¦ And, of course, telling myself that I could never have so much a drag on a cigarette or a vape ever again. I hope itās easier for you to give up! 
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Dang! Glad you were able to find a way to quit!
I was cig free and vape free for a bit until work just got insane and stressful. I really need to get on quitting again!
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Also, itās fun visiting Texas. The doc said Iām not contagious, and my cough has been good, so I went out for some fancy healthy food. And maybe some medicine for the soul in a rocks glass. I ordered tuna avocado something on toast and it came with a redneck twist of Pringles on top XD
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So Iāve been following this thread lately
And it got me wondering how foolproof the apexes are and will be. Can you brick one and if so how probable is it?
Also is it inherent to the tags or are they going to become more and more reliable as the software side gets ironed out?
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There are ways to brick itā¦ simply try to authentucate the ISD just a few times with the wrong passwordā¦ poofā¦ there are other attack vectors as well which are all built around triggering tamper protection to burn things vs possibly allowing data to leakā¦ just in caseā¦ which is annoying.
As far as accidental bricking, after the P40 and P60 debacles, weāve done a bunch of poking and prodding itā¦ switching power off mid-writeā¦ etcā¦ so far, stable
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So if you use the dedicated apps properly thereās virtually no risk for the newbie user? Thatās cool 
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Pretty much. There are risks at every level of course, from breaking the hardware through ISD attack and simply walking up with a Fidesmo app and removing an applet from the chip along with all itās keysā¦ We are talking to Fidesmo now about trying to work around and mitigate this particular issueā¦ But the point is, if used as intended, youāre pretty safe.
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I didnāt wnat to put this in the show-off-using-your-implant thread since itās not a video and I donāt see how I could possibly get it on video. But I still wanted to share, and I donāt think Iāve mentioned this before here:
Before I moved I used to do quite a bit of long exposure and light painting. I also did a lot of urban exploration and my thing was anything underground so of course I combined the two.
If youāre unfamiliar with photography terms what I did involved leaving the camera perfectly still for a few minutes to gather as much light as possible in complete or partial darkness. Sometimes I would work with a friend and the procedure went as follows:
Set up the camera, my friend gets in place, we turn all the lights off, I start the shot, he does whatever light painting. But then he had to come back to me and the camera in complete darkness. Usually we would just talk and use sound as a guide.
But as you might expect in some urbex locations you might not want to be noticed. In fact you would try and be completely silent. This is where my glowy doNext came in. I used to use it as a beacon to guide the other person. It is just bright enough to be seen but doesnāt shine on the environment which would ruin the photo. Also itās always there, no need to switch it on or off and that makes the whole choreography much simpler.
I have used it a couple other times in contexts where the voice is not practical. For example if the person must give me something so I can relay them. With the implant they directly see my hand.
Thatās it, just a little anecdote
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