Introduction

This makes a great gift for any baby who knows a programmer or who just wants to act like one! CodeOnesie is a free online application that allows you to generate customized image to use as a t-shirt transfer. It's free for personal use, but if you like it, I encourage you to make a little donation for my kids' college funds! =)

Code Onesie

What You'll Need

• Printable iron-on transfers
• A onesie, bodysuit, or other garment to receive the transfer
• A printer to print the transfer (suggestion below)
• The image to print (create it below)

Some handy supplies
$16.42

Creating the Transfer Image

Simply fill out the short form below and put a check mark in the box by "Mirror Image" if you want the transfer image to be reversed. (Many printers do this automatically when you indicate that you're printing on transfer paper.)

Next click "Make Transfer." The page will refresh, and the image will appear (sized to fit) below the Make Transfer button. You can save the full size version of the image by simply right-clicking on the thumbnail, then selecting "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As..."

What Does It Mean?

In a nutshell, once the human baby is created (constructed), it will eat, produce the given outputs, incur a random cost, sleep a bit (not long enough!), and grow a bit continually until age 18, at which point (if the parents are lucky and have good karma), the child will be free and the parents will have a chance to rest.

The code is written in C# and is syntactically correct. It utilizes object oriented constructs and assumes a base class with human-related functionality and properties.

Making the Shirt

Depending upon the size of the shirt, onesie, hat, bib, sweater or other garment you want to make, you may need to resize the image using a word processing or photo editing program before you print it to the transfer paper. Once you get the size about right, print out a test page to make sure it will fit the garment.

Need a good printer? I use a Canon Pixma iP6600D photo printer shown below, and I'm continually astounded by the superb prints I get -- all the way up to 8x10, which cost a fortune if you buy them online or at the photo store. Plus it's quite fast and it prints of both sides of the paper, so it basically use it to print everything. (Use the "Pro" paper for photos you won't regret it!)

The best photo printer on the planet
	$26.20		$38.49	$14.98	$14.25

After you've printed your test page on cheap paper, load in the expensive stuff (the iron-on transfer paper) and stqart printing. Once it's printed, I typically like to cut around the image and cut out large sections of unprinted transfer. This tends to make the final product look a little cleaner and more professional.

The transfer paper should come with instructions on how best to transfer the image from the paper to the garment.

Licensing & Registration

Visit What is CollegeFundware? on this site for details on how to legally use this software after a reasonable evaluation period.

Status & Known Issues

There are no open issues. If you discover other issues or defects, please contact me at the address at the bottom of this page (in the footer).

Versions & Update History

V.1.0 (Mar 20, 2006): Initial release.