Ueber-Geek Christmas Tree with QR Code decorations

Über-Geek Christmas Tree with QR Code decorations

Show off your geekyness with Christmas Tree decorations of QR Codes that have lame Christmas Cracker Jokes on them. Of course, you need a scanner to fully appreciate the lame jokes, but then what geek does not have at least 3 different QR Code scanning apps on his/her smartphone - or worse, walk around with an actual bar code scanner in his geek-bag?

This Instructable provides 100 lame jokes in paper cut-outs that you can glue into cubes, hang onto a tree, scan them with a smartphone scanner, and...er, well, chortle about with your fellow geeks. The source code is also included so you can create your own QR Cubes and vary the content.

Inspired by this Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/QR-Code-Bad-Jokes/, this is the outcome of my nocturnal deliberations and programming.

What you will need:

• An A4 or A3 printer
• A PDF viewer (Okular, GhostView, Acrobat Reader)
• Scissors. It also helps having a guillotine to save on cutting
• Paper Glue
• Dexterity

If you plan to generate your own QR Cubes, you will also need:

• A Linux PC
• Perl, ImageMagick and PDFTK (PDF Tool Kit) need to be installed if not already on your Linux variant

Step 1 Print the QRCode Cubes

Print the attached PDF file to either an A4 or an A3 printer. The PDF pages scale on most printers without you having to make any adjustments.

Comments

[mikeasaurus]

nerdy-awesome!

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Awesome tree decorations!