Almost a year ago, I did a blog post about one idea of the many nifty things one could do with QR codes. I tossed out a few other ideas to neighborhood partners, but the right project hasn't come along yet. What I forgot to do, however, was to send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the President of Inventions, along with a detailed summary of all my great ideas. Had I remembered to do that, I might have gotten credit for the work shown above. Instead, like most people who come up with interesting ideas that never get fully developed, I'm relegated to saying "Yeah, but I thought of it first."
And then the real credit here goes where it's deserved: to Minnesota Public Radio, the City of Minneapolis, Catalyst Community Partners, and the various artists who participated in the project.
For those of you new to QR codes, they are the equivalent of bar codes for your smart phone. And they work like this...
