This is WONDERFUL.
EDIT: nto "But for use for" -- I meant "But in ADDITION" --
But - for tool/item/inventory management in a garage.
Get a cheap label printer [0], create a form of your tools/inventory with a matched set (code on tool, code on location of tool home) - Tool home has a QR code that leads to a tab in the sheet with all the tools that live in that location, container.
Put airtags on the high-value tools, with links in the sheet to those.
but scan a code on a tool - and it tells you tool details, including owner, home, whatever data properties you like.
If you like barcodes/QR codes and GIMP - You will love BarTender (seagull Software [1])
It allows you to make ANY type of barcode you want, QR code, badge, etc etc.
Its AMAZING [Free*] software. (You only pay a cheapo $500 lic if you have a high volume printer for printing thousands of product labels fast - eles; its a super powerful free program with an utterly amazing and knowledgable supprt staf f (no affiliation)
Here is a test I did making "Card Carrying Conspiracy Theorist" badges based on a comment from someone saying they were one. THe QRs go to the /r/ profile - as does the bar code.
The image can be set as a template then do a merge for pics and employee data from a sheet....
https://imgur.com/a/eyAxpcb
(I like Guilloche designs (the swirly woven bits you see on money)) and so I used that motif - but the QR code placement and calc is automatic via Bartender.
I made a bunch of labels for a cannabis company - and I tied the QRs through a tinyURL which did all the geocoding of the QR scanning so that we could send product to a particular place, and then track where and how many people scanned the QR (the QR went directly to the lab test reports for the makup of the cannibis, CBD, etc...
So, then you could measure which market the CBD or THC were drawing most interest - and see how sales were vs scanning.
anyway - QR codes get a bad wrap. They are lame for menues - but a goot idea is to scan a QR code, then just have a folder of scanned links for purusal later - as opposed to launching safari when I clearly dont ue safari. :)
[0] https://www.amazon.com/qr-code-printer/s?k=qr+code+printer&p...
[1] https://portal.seagullscientific.com/downloads/bartender
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>>>scan a QR code, then just have a folder of scanned links for purusal later
These get submitted to a personal GPT and it develops a learning module for you on your home portal which then gives you the run-down of all it has learned from that location QR or Context QR or Porduct QR.
But without a sticker - it will use either:
1. handheld laser engraver of the QR
2. an AI derived location based on meta data
3. an AI location based on image analysis
(forgive me if I am snowballing too much on HN, but I truly believe we are at an inflection point with a velocity that is being masked from us - SAs and his Ilk are not giving the fold the truth.)