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DaveC426913
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- Experimenting with making my own QR code to connect to my WIFI
Got to say, I am pretty disappointed.
I've seen QR code plaques in people's houses. A guest scans it with their phone and it automatically connects them to the house Wifi.
Here's one made out of LEGO - I found on Google (It goes to something called Quasar.)
LEGO has been done, so I wanted to make something that befits a nice living room. I had planned to make one out of seed beads.
This is my mocked up Photoshopped prototype to test the colurs and contrast (obscured so I don't reveal my network creds to the world):
I assumed that camera s/w is smart enough to detect a QR code in widely adverse conditions, but my experiments are revealing that that is not the case. It could not read the above image. (It is quite new. Samsung A14 w/ Android)
So I backtracked to see just how precise the pattern needs to be for my phone to recognize it.
Here is the same pattern in black and white:
No joy. My camera did not recognize it.
The only difference between this and the generates one is that mine uses round dots - which are allowed, by the way - but apparently they can't have any gap between them.
Even this is too much whitespace:
My phone won't register this as a QR code until the black dots are touching each other:
Which kind of puts the kibosh on the whole project. There's just no way to create a real-world QR code plaque out of objects that has zero gap between them. Besides, even if it could be done, it would kind of defeat the purpose, since they wouldn't be distinguishable to the eye either - ruining the whole effect.
I am defeated.
I've seen QR code plaques in people's houses. A guest scans it with their phone and it automatically connects them to the house Wifi.
Here's one made out of LEGO - I found on Google (It goes to something called Quasar.)
LEGO has been done, so I wanted to make something that befits a nice living room. I had planned to make one out of seed beads.
This is my mocked up Photoshopped prototype to test the colurs and contrast (obscured so I don't reveal my network creds to the world):
I assumed that camera s/w is smart enough to detect a QR code in widely adverse conditions, but my experiments are revealing that that is not the case. It could not read the above image. (It is quite new. Samsung A14 w/ Android)
So I backtracked to see just how precise the pattern needs to be for my phone to recognize it.
Here is the same pattern in black and white:
No joy. My camera did not recognize it.
The only difference between this and the generates one is that mine uses round dots - which are allowed, by the way - but apparently they can't have any gap between them.
Even this is too much whitespace:
My phone won't register this as a QR code until the black dots are touching each other:
Which kind of puts the kibosh on the whole project. There's just no way to create a real-world QR code plaque out of objects that has zero gap between them. Besides, even if it could be done, it would kind of defeat the purpose, since they wouldn't be distinguishable to the eye either - ruining the whole effect.
I am defeated.
