The Barcode Beast Likes Your CDs

Over the years we’ve featured many projects which attempt to replicate the feel of physical media when playing music. Usually this involves some kind of token representation of the media, but…

Teaching Computers To Read — Sort Of

If you ask someone who grew up in the late 1970s or early 1980s what taught them a lot about programming, they’d probably tell you that typing in programs from magazines was very instructive.…

Color Can Triple QR Code Capacity

Recently [mit41301] wondered about increasing the data capacity of QR codes, and was able to successfully triple the number of bits using color. He chose the new rectangular micro QR code (rMQR) st…

Barcodes Enter The Matrix In 2027

Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit proved that even the smallest of items…

Barcodes erzeugen mit Zint

Mit der Anwendung Zint lassen sich auf einfache Weise Barcodes erzeugen. QR-Codes sind nur einer von vielen möglichen Anwendungsfällen.