On this day ten years ago I was trying really hard to read the this QR Code chocolate from that Andy Ramsden, who back then was working at the University of Bath. I think the chocolate was from a QR Codes workshop that Andy was running as part of a JISC programme. Doing a Google search unearthed this paper that he presented at the ALT Conference that same year.
Back then I failed miserably to read the code, despite using lots of different QR Code readers….
So I took a photograph instead and then ate the chocolate.
I even mentioned this in a blog post a few years ago about QR Codes on Cadbury chocolate bars.
It took a while to scan in the code as the foil packing and colours used on the QR Code made it difficult to capture the code. It reminded me of the chocolate QR Codes that the University of Bath made for the QR Codes project we did a few years back.
I think the issue back then was the contrast between the dark and white chocolate.
Today I wondered a bit….
So I used the in-built QR code reader in my iPhone and checked if it could read the QR code. Years ago you needed a unique app to read QR codes, today the iPhone camera has that feature built in, as do many Android phones.
So could my iPhone read this ten year old QR code, it could…
Yay!
Alas…. Though the QR Code works the website link it had encoded inside it is now dead and gone….
I wonder what it was all about?