QR Codes Reader Primer Tutorial
Are you like me, and got told about QR Codes (those square curious looking barcodes) ages ago, and “let it ride” in your mind as “another fad” perhaps, rather than giving it a go? Well, today, finally we “gave it a go”. And it was really worth it.
Actually, though, it seems to still be the case that “supply” (of websites that deploy it) is the major stumbling block here. We “deployed” QR Code Reader functionality here on an iPad by downloading and installing a mobile app. So far not too hard. But let me take you to “why now?”. Well, it was a “where” of life scenario, the sucker punch for me … a map with QR Codes next to places on the map whereby that QR Code read by a QR Code Reader app, effectively photographing it, leads you to “further reading” webpages.
So, yes, QR Code usage is asking, in all practicalities of usage, for hard copy input, or another computer device screen with a QR Code showing, separate to the device you are using with the QR Code Reader app, that you photograph, to make all this functionality “shine” … but shine it did, in a “woh” moment, at least for us, and maybe for you?!
So we show you a stream of consciousness presentation of us finding out about “side stories” to the Great North Trail, here, in Sydney, bushwalking out of the Lane Cove River National Park heading north, and investigations halfway up the track on the way through to Newcastle.
To summarise QR Code functionality usage the “ingredients” required are …
- Connection to the Internet
- QR Code Reader software
- Hard copy with QR Codes showing or another computer device screen with QR Codes showing, perhaps via a PDF file sent to you in an email, maybe
- Photographing QR Codes via the QR Code Reader app’s scanner … from there the fun continues
Hope you get something out of the presentation.
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