Ever see those little barcode things that are showing up on billboards and magazines? The ones that look like this?
Well, this a tutorial on how to make street art stencils out of them. No smartphone toting nerd can resist the allure when they see one painted on the sidewalk they're walking on. They have to scan it.
Look at this! You can't not scan this when you walk by it on the street. I dare you.
This is how to do it:










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ReplyDeleteNext time, use the URL option for your QR Code, when I scan your code it show me "www.awkwardengineer.com" instead of opening my web browser.
ReplyDeleteIf you include http:// in front it should go to the web. Also, why not point them to a personal QR mobile-enabled site ( see http://bc4.me ) - your QR will be smaller and easier to make a stencil from.
ReplyDeleteThis is a huge QR win by the way - I like it! Do you mind if we include it in our links for QRwin.org?
I actually tried various combinations of awkwardengineer.com, www.awkwardengineer.com, http://awk... and so on, and also a couple url shorterners until I got a stencil pattern that was a little bit more consolidated and easy to cut.
ReplyDeleteand I would say, please, link away!