⚑ Light Beam

Offline screen-to-camera transfer. The laptop shows a stream of QR frames and the phone reads them with its camera. No network is used for the data itself.

πŸ’» Laptop: send

Pick a photo and play it as animated QR codes.

Open sender

πŸ“± Phone: receive

Scan this with the phone to open the receiver:

Open receiver here

Choose a photo.

Tips: turn screen brightness up, hold the phone 25–40 cm away, keep the QR filling about β…” of the camera frame. The stream loops, so missed frames come round again. If the phone stalls, lower frames/sec or bytes/frame.

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Point the camera at the laptop screen.