QR Code ® Artist
Artistic & Creative QR Codes ®Raspberry Pi Qr Code®
Posted onFebruary 29, 2012
An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte! The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
A geeky QR Code for a very geeky mini computer, I want one or two Raspberry Pis! Sign up to the mailing list to get yours here.
Source: Raspberry Pi
Air Fest Makes World’s Largest QR Code®
Posted onFebruary 28, 2012Air Fest , a company specializing in the management of day camps has succeeded on Saturday, February 18, 2012, in creating the largest code QR in the world ! The challenge wais the beginning of the registration drive for 2012 theme “ One was larger than life ! “day camps. More info here or scan the world’s largest QR Code.
They have now beaten Hackerspace Charlotte, an artistic collective focused on digital media, and Skanz, a social networking platform specializing in QR codes, that both succeeded in building massive codes in 2011.
Air Fest’s code measures a mammoth 15,625 square feet, beating out both codes from Skanz and Hackerspace by at least 5,000 feet. The code resolves to a mobile website where smart phone users can find information on the code and its construction. They will also find details about the company and why it chose to make the world’s largest QR code. The code can only be scanned from an altitude of at least 1,000 feet, but Air Fest was prepared with a helicopter to take a picture of the code from that height in order to allow others to scan it.
Source: QRCodePress
Locate The QR Codes And Win $40,000
Posted onFebruary 28, 2012From the site:
“Welcome to DARPA’s CLIQR Quest Challenge!
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is conducting the DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR)Quest), a prize-based challenge that seeks to advance the understanding of social media and the Internet, and explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.
In time of crises, we must ensure that the right resources make it to the right area in the right time. Delays in finding those resources cost more than time and money, delays cost lives. Finding the most efficient method of resource identification and delivery is paramount. It is a capability with clear relevance and importance to the military when it is called upon for assistance and existing data sources and social network analysis are not sufficient for accomplishing this task.
The CLIQR Quest has been crafted to simulate public mobilization for the identification of essential assets to assist in mobilizing and delivering aid efficiently. The event, like an actual crisis or disaster, is unannounced prior to the start date. The humanitarian crisis relief assets (e.g. water, food, gas, etc.) needed to quickly respond to a disaster are represented by appropriately named – Quick Response (QR) codes. QR codes have been distributed throughout the continental United States to represent the dispersion of resource concentrations throughout the country. CLIQR Quest participants will be challenged to locate other participants who have key assets that are represented by the QR codes. The event will only last for two weeks – the notional assets must be identified and coordinated quickly to ensure they make it to those in need.
The CLIQR Quest begins at 11:00 AM (EST) on Thursday, February 23, 2012 and ends at 12:00 PM (EST) on Thursday, March 8, 2012. Entries are accepted until noon, 12:00 PM (EST) on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
A cash prize of up to US $40,000 cash prize will be awarded to the first contest entrant to find and submit all of the available QR codes.
The winner will be announced and some results will be posted on the CLIQR Quest website during the week of March 12, 2012.”
Our Tax dollars at work (or play)!
Source: 2d Code
QR Code Condoms – again – National Condom Week
Posted onFebruary 27, 2012Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has begun distributing 55,000 condoms to college students with QR codes®, allowing students to anonymously “check in” and boast about where they’ve practiced safe sex. A Web site dubbed WhereDidYouWearIt.com chronicles all of the action, so you can see that folks are particularly frisky in Ballard or Bellevue or Bellingham.
“Did you just use a condom to protect yourself against unintended pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections? You go, tiger! Sex that (is) safe, should be shared,” declares the Web site.
Campuses receiving QR coded condoms include:
For more information please visit: www.wheredidyouwearit.com or facebook.com/wheredidyouwearit) or Twitter (@WhereDidUWearIt). The interactive map includes comments from users.
I think they got this idea from the Swedish QR Code Condoms promotion, check out their VIDEO! I don’t think they used the same app? Using the Swedish app they had much more precise results and probably more fun.
Mashable.com added a video about the QR Code Condom promotion on March 3; http://mashable.com/2012/03/02/qr-code-condoms/
Source: GeekWire
The Purpose Driven Life (QR Code Enhanced Edition)
Posted onFebruary 25, 2012The Purpose Driven Life (QR Code Enhanced Edition): What on Earth Am I Here For? (Purpose Driven Life, The)
Publishers description: “Available for the first time, Rick Warren’s#1 New York Times bestseller now includes forty unique QR Codes that link to exclusive videos of Rick Warren. These QR Code and video-based enhancements provide a cutting-edge, interactive experience to help you live out God’s purpose for your life: reducing your stress, focusing your energy, simplifying your decisions, giving meaning to your life, and, most importantly, preparing you for eternity. A blueprint for Christian living in the 21st century, Warren offers his classic words of hope utilizing 21st century mobile and video technology for a whole new level of learning and engagement. Read, ponder, hear, and see Warren as he helps you discover the answer to life’s fundamental question: What on earth am I here for? It’s a fresh way to interact with a treasured book of hope that will be read, watched, and re-watched by you and by generations to come.”
Source: Amazon
Woven QR Code® from ribbon
Posted onFebruary 25, 2012
Craftster user Trekky shared these pictures of a QR code that she wove from ribbon!
Source: blog.craftzine.com
iPads Using QR Codes and Artist Statements
Posted onFebruary 24, 2012
Connect art and literacy using iPads, QR codes, and Artsonia. QR codes linked to Artsonia artist statement pages. Students scanned QR codes and then typed in artist statements about their own artwork.
Source: Vimeo & The Teaching Palette
QR Code Art Race in Hong Kong
Posted onFebruary 24, 2012A scavenger hunt inspired race involving Social Media technology for Art on Wednesday, February 15 at 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. This all inclusive Art race throughout Hong Kong aims to engage the Next Generation to appreciate Art and to lower the threshold of going into the Art Galleries in Hong Kong. The QR code Art Race is to go from art gallery to art gallery by using your smart phone QR code reader. The QR codes shows information about the art work and the location of Art gallery plus the next stop in the race.
From socialmediaweek.org: ”Scavenger hunt inspired Art race that takes you from gallery to gallery. Bring your Smart phone with a QR code reader application. We will kick off at the Plum Blossoms Gallery at 18.00pm. Learn more about Social Media Platforms from our expert Guest speaker Ashton Wong from BackZtage.
And then you are off for the Art race! Find the gallery, Spot the artwork with your QR code reader, get your picture taken with a renowned Hong Kong artist, Scan for more information and for a clue to your next destination. We will be waiting for you with nice drinks and munchies. Finish the Art race and celebrate the event at the “finishing” gallery (found out during the Art race) with even more nice drinks and finger food.
If you have an interest in Art but do not know where to start, this is your event to find out more!”
Event Host: Design Network Asia
Design Network Asia is a unique platform for creative talents preparing for the creative sector in Hong Kong. DNA represent a range of creative talents in design ranging from graphic design, product design, illustration, photography, communication design and many other fields within the design industry.
Check out their FaceBook Page.
Sportsgirl goes Mobile
Posted onFebruary 23, 2012
Sportsgirl, one of Australia’s well known fashion labels has launched a ‘QR Code® window shop,’ that allows customers to purchase products without entering a bricks and mortar store. This latest concept works by the use of the Sportsgirl QR code system. Sportsgirl products are displayed in the shop’s windows, and customers can scan the product’s QR code with their smartphone, iPhone or iPad to make an immediate purchase.
Interesting concept, is this the future of retail?
Source: The Meda Pad
GoDaddy.com NYC Times Square Gigantic QR Code®
Posted onFebruary 22, 2012
GoDaddy.com placed a gigantic billboard on NYC’s Times Square that will get your attention, GoDaddy.com does know how to get attention!
Source: FlashStreamWorks.com - check out the post for info on how to integrate QR Codes using Adobe Air.
QR Code Art
