The Touch Project

OK,

Presentation day finally came,

Here are some photos from the final preparations… soon to come video’s and more photos from the presentation itself,

Enjoy!

Ok,

There will be tons of new stuff here…

1. some pics of the 3d model (part of an animated movie that will soon be uploaded u can see its’ first part below..), showing our Multitouch table.

2.pics of the construction and estimated size of the whole project.

3.After several hours of adjusting, calibrating, we finally managed to calibrate the display ( with about 95% acuraccy) the other 5 % will be there when we finish building the first wood prototype ).

We will put some videos of the current status

Enjoy!

3d Model of the project- (with different textures)- Made in ‘Maya’ :

2. some pics of the project ( and how this messed up prototype looks now)

note that we don’t use this GIGANTIC projector no more..

we got ourselves a new Benq tiny DLP projector that fits in perfectly!

3. some videos of our last session,

testing with apps from touchlib, and Laurence Muller:

Piano app:

Media App:

After we’ve adjusted the camera, drilled holes and placed the LED lights in the holes around the frame, it’s time for the last few steps regarding the hardware.

First of all - we’ve connected the LED lights through an electric cord around the frame (so the LED’s will get electricity and will work properly).

We’ve used this diagram for help you:

(thanks to Laurence Muller and his site - www.multigesture.net)

Once we were done, the surface looked somthing like this:

Now, once the electrical wiring is done (TIP: Check, check and double check again the way you’ve connectd the LED’s by, otherwise they’ll burn up and you’ll have to buy quite a lot of LEDs again..), plug it in so electricity’ll flow through it.

Using the camera with it’s new IR lens, and while the frame with the LEDS is connected to electricity point, we’ve caught this picture through the webCam:

Cool eh?

Now we’ve put the filter (the burnt out piece of film) on the lens, which changes the picture to black and white, and makes it easier for the camera to capture hand gestures on the perspex  surface.

It’ll look like this:

What the camera actually sees is:

We need to set up the camera so it’ll only see white dots where the hand touches the screen (as in pic 6 of the above pic)

That’s it for this update,

Next time: WHEN THINGS GO WRONG!

or

Mannnnn we’ve screwed uppppp!

Stay tuned…………………