Aisle 1No. 8 of 460
Splashery
QR Explained
91,569 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Studio · Built from a recipe
QR Explained
A QR code is a grid of dark and light modules with a fixed plan.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to light up each part of the code, or encode your own text step by step.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 8 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 1, Studio
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 91,569
- Your own
- QR Explained
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Apache-2.0, MIT
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next part | Tap | ||
| Light it up | Button | ||
| Place the bits | Button | ||
| Apply the mask | Button | ||
| Shape | List | 2 choices | Square |
| Pop the lit part out | Setting |
About it
A QR code is a grid of dark and light modules with a fixed plan. Three finder patterns mark the corners, timing patterns set the grid, alignment patterns help at an angle, and the format information says the error correction level and the mask. The rest is your text in 8-bit codewords, plus Reed–Solomon codewords that can rebuild damaged ones.
Tap to light up each part. Or type your own text in the Splash tab and step through the encoding: the mode, the count, the data bits, padding, error correction, interleaving, the zigzag placement and the eight masks with their penalty scores. Each step follows ISO/IEC 18004 and is checked against another encoder.
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- Apache-2.0
- jsQR 1.4.0 (lane LSTUDIO)
- MIT
- QR Code generator library (Project Nayuki)
