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Friday, October 15, 2010

Spherical multitouch rig - Hack a Day

Spherical multitouch rig

posted Oct 15th 2010 7:13am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: multitouch hacks

We all love a little bit of multitouch, but we’ve seen so many setups that it is getting a bit less exciting. This one will get your attention with its unique shape. It is a spherical multitouch using all open source software. Well, since the poles are unusable, it might just be toroidal, or cylindrical, but it is still impressive. They are using a convex mirror mounted to the upper most point of the frosted sphere to reflect a projector mounted at the bottom of the base. A web cam pointed at that same mirror picks up reflected IR light from a few emitters. You can catch a video of it after the break.

[via boingboing]

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Go there...
http://hackaday.com/2010/10/15/spherical-multitouch-rig/

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