Audio Touch and budget DIY touchscreen
I've just been viewing a project called AudioTouch, which is the work of a student called Seth Sandler.
He is using some technology that allows you to build a very cheap (as little as £5) touch screen interface and it allows for multi finger control.
The basic version just needs a webcam, a box, a clear surface (glass, plastic etc), a PC and the free software.
Check out this being built and used here.
But he has gone much further than this and created a rear projection table version of this touch screen so you are actually touching the objects on the screen and interacting with them. This is really cool and I definitely need to build one of these once he releases his guide on how to build it (I could work it out for myself but a guide to building something that is guaranteed to work is a much nicer solution). Check out the AudioTouch here and view the video.
And how much are M$ looking to charge for their forthcoming touchscreen coffee table? ;)
Now all we need to work out is how to get emulators (mame) running and interacting with this table! :cool:
ps. thanks to Sarek2K for originally posting a link to this project on the oldskooluk forums.