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A Crossword Puzzle That Doubles As A QR Code. When the anonymous designers of Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave invented the QR code to track vehicle manufacturing processes, I wonder if they knew what they had wrought. Like the UPC before it, the QR code offers the possibility of radically transforming logistics chains. It’s since been taken up by marketers in the hopes that it will drive engagement with advertising. But a QR code is also a tiny (abstract) picture and so it has aesthetic properties. Designers like filmmaker Christian Svanes Kolding are playing with that. At MoMA’s Talk to Me exhibit, every piece had a QR code attached. Visitors could scan them and find out more about the piece on their mobile phone. Svanes Kolding’s film The Things We Keep was one of the pieces, and so he had a unique QR code assigned.

Because the shape of the board was set by the nature of the code, filling out the puzzle became a labor-intensive process of trial and error. Today’s QR codes are mostly ornamental. QRJumps.com - Free QR Code generator with advanced redirection. QArt Codes. QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof, volleyball bikini, belt buckle, or airplane banner) to load a web site on a cell phone instead of having to “type” in a URL. QR codes are encoded using Reed-Solomon error-correcting codes, so that a QR scanner does not have to see every pixel correctly in order to decode the content. The error correction makes it possible to introduce a few errors (fewer than the maximum that the algorithm can fix) in order to make an image. For example, in 2008, Duncan Robertson took a QR code for “ (left) and introduced errors in the form of a BBC logo (right): That's a neat trick and a pretty logo, but it's uninteresting from a technical standpoint.

Since the BBC QR logo appeared, there have been many imitators. There's a different way to put pictures in QR codes. QR Codes. Ways to use QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom and Using Google Docs to Create Them. “Traditional thinking is all about ‘what is’. Future thinking will also need to be about what ‘can be’” By Edward de Bono Quick Response codes also known as QR codes are similar to barcodes. When you scan QR codes using apps such as i-nigma or scan with your smartphone, ipad and computer (if you have a web camera) it links information to you.

The information can be text, videos or websites etc. I believe with bring your own technology coming to many schools, I see QR codes becoming more popular in the classroom because they can be read on many devices and it is a real world application now. Here are some ways you can use QR codes in the classroom… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To start putting some of these great ideas into practice in your classroom, you can use QR creators such as Kaywa, QRStuff if you just want to create one QR code but I like using Google docs when creating multiple QR codes quickly. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. =image(ʺ 7. 8. 9. Like this: Like Loading... View Our QR Gallery | QR Codes. Search results for QR. Taburete con código QR tridimensional. La artista alemana Elena Belmann ha creado este taburete con códigos QR en todas sus superficies que pueden ser escaneados. El aspecto estético es genial (posee una fuente de luz interior que lo hace brillar), pero no debe resultar muy cómodo si debemos permanecer sentados mucho tiempo.

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