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Fanboys may be in shock from seeing duct tape applied to the screen of an iPad, but we can assure you it's in the name of science. [Michael Knuepfel] is working on his thesis for the ITP graduate program at the Tisch School for the Arts. He managed to augment the usability of touchscreen devices by adding hardware to them. What he's come up with are devices for both input and output. The output … [Read more...]
[Jane] wrote in to let us know about the touch-based synthesizer she and her classmates just built. They call it the ToneMatrix Touch, as it was inspired by a flash application called ToneMatrix. We're familiar with that application as it's been the inspiration for other physical builds as well. A resistive touch screen in the surface glass of the device provides the ability to interact by … [Read more...]
A few common components come together to make this interactive museum exhibit that teaches about the sun (translated). It uses three main physical components to pull this off. The first is a custom projection surface. It's a hemisphere of the sun with a slice cut out of it. This is presumably coated with the paint you'd use to turn a wall into a projection surface. Software translates a projected … [Read more...]
[Rossum] just finished porting Zork over to the Microtouch. This hardware, which he originally designed, is now available for purchase through Adafruit. It's a tiny 320x240 TFT touchscreen, driven by an AVR ATmega32u4 microcontroller. The device draws power from a lithium battery, and also boast a USB connection and a MicroSD slot. The hack here is getting Zork to run with the limited … [Read more...]
Here is a bare-bones multitouch table setup. We looked in on [Seth Sandler's] multitouch work a few years ago when he completed the MTmini build. He's scaling up the size a bit with the MTbiggie, and showing you how easy it is to put together. The demo rig seen above is just a couple of chairs, a sheet of acrylic, a mirror, a projector, a computer, and a diy infrared webcam. The rig uses … [Read more...]
[Sprite_TM] was cleaning up his hacking workbench when he came across an all-in-one device that had seen better days. After a bit of consideration he decided to tear down the scanner portion of the device and ended up turning it into a multi-touch display. The scanner relies on a long PCB with a line CCD sensor. This sensor is read in a similar way that information is passed along a shift … [Read more...]
Adding touch screen capabilities to your computer is really not very expensive, but it's a huge amount of work to get everything looking the way that it should. [Deadbird] wrote up a step-by-step guide that will help you install touch screen hardware and get your netbook put back together just like new. The hardware comes in two parts. There's the transparent film that covers the screen and the … [Read more...]
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