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  • Cracking open an LCD

    A Multitouch post from 29.01.2008.

    The first step in getting my table up and running was to dismantle the LCD monitor. I needed to make sure that I could get all of the circuitry away from the rear of the monitor so that the camera could pick up touches anywhere on the screen. Fortunately it was "relatively" easy to dismantle and all of the circuitry ...

  • Constructing the table

    A Multitouch post from 29.01.2008.

    Grabbed some cheap-ass wood from B&Q and decided to exercise my woeful woodworking skills. I cut a hole for the monitor in what would become the table top. Used a jigsaw to do it and immediately wished I had access to a router. It probably didn't help that I was using MDF. That stuff is downright nasty! First the legs ...

  • Building an LCD multitouch table

    A Multitouch post from 28.01.2008.

    I've actually been building it since December, but I've only now gotten round to setting up a blog to record the process. A while back I was messing around with using a webcam in Processing to track movement and ended up happening across the fiducial system employed by Reactivision for their rather spiffy Reactable. I'd originally planned to build a fiducial driven ...

  • Recent Tracks Widget

    A Widgets post from 26.01.2008.

    This is a simple little widget that you can use to spy on what your friends are listening to. Just enter your Last.fm username on the back of the widget and choose the person from your friends list who's tracks you want to watch. The track listing is updated every two and a half minutes while Dashboard is displayed. In ...

  • Drawable

    A Processing post from 26.01.2008.

    Started playing with Phys2d recently while researching 2D physics engines. As every man and his dog seems to be copying Crayon Physics at the moment, I thought I might as well go ahead and do the same. Just draw with mouse and the objects will drop into the scene. I've not added any checks for complex polygons, so try not ...