I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works

About this video

Veritasium builds a QR code by hand to explain how it works. It covers the history of Morse code and barcodes, how QR codes encode data, why damaged codes still scan, and how safe they are.

Why it appears in the archive

HN points to it as a recent, well-made explanation of QR code structure and error correction.

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