WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SCAN A QR CODE?

When you scan a QR code, the camera breaks it down into ones and zeros (binary code).

This binary sequence is then decoded to reveal the text, link, or other information stored within the code.

Each character in a QR code is encoded using an ASCII encoding system, similar to how Morse code assigns a number to each letter.

For example, the word “HELLO” would be broken down into binary like this:

H = 72 (in binary: 01001000)

E = 69 (in binary: 01000101)

L = 76 (in binary: 01001100)

O = 79 (in binary: 01001111)

These binary codes are then arranged in the grid of the QR code.