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QR Code

Posted by Simon Butcher on

QR code example with my blog's URLPeople who know me here in Brussels will roll their eyes at this article, possibly within reason. Yes, this is a blog entry about a bloody barcode. Yes, I work for a company that works in the AIDC industry. No, however, this wasn't inevitable, and I knew about it a long time ago but tried to avoid fashion: I'm not a fashionable guy, to say the least.

As requested by Scott (of Smile in Europe fame), I'm going to temporarily join the Japanese mobile phone fad of adding a QR Code 2D barcode to my blog. There is no way in hell, though, that I'm having it tattooed to my skin!

IBSN 02-05-1981-00This isn't the first time I've gone and put a barcode on my blog. Last year, I went off and got myself an IBSN. Yes, more barcodes.

Invented in 1994 by Denso-Wave, QR Code itself isn't that spectacular technologically since it was originally invented for labelling automotive parts, but the way it's being used today is interesting. Changing camera phones into a cheap imaging scanner using software alone is something that's been done in the AIDC industry for a while. Using it to collect information such as URL's is useful when you're stuck with a phone that's difficult to input data into.

If you want your own QR Code, Scott pointed me to Kaywa's free online generator for non-commercial use.

What ever happened to the competing URL-on-a-barcode standard, Semacode? *

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