[dorkbotbmore-blabber] Twitter and multi-touch

[Adam D Bachman]

Scott,


The software is called Touchlib (http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/) and I was
able to get it up and running in about 15 minutes. The tutorial I followed
is here: http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/downloads/  Unfortunately, I never
went any farther than the demo :/ It only runs on Windows, according to the
site.

What you're really doing is building a really cheap "Frustrated Total
Internal Reflection" (FTIR
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/<http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirsense/>)
table.  It's the same concept behind the setup Jeff Han demonstrated at the
TED conference (
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html).
Except, the 15-minute tutorial uses a sheet of paper and a webcam instead of
an LCD projector and IR LEDs.


- Adam

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Scott Austin <scott at thinkthankthunk.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> The subject line may direct you to think that this email is about a single
> combined topic of twitter and multi-touch interfaces.  But it ain't.  Sorry-
> two topics.
>
> I enjoyed our last (i.e. previous) meeting!   I have a question related to
> David's show-n-tell twitter project.  Where could I find more info and
> examples of programmatically interfacing with twitter.  Eventually I'd like
> to accept twitters and output them to another (non-internetted) computer via
> a USB link.  For that matter, I have a similar but different idea for
> Flickr/photo site, too.
>
> From the February mtg, Adam (I believe) mentioned a simple multi-touch
> project.  I looked around, but couldn't find it.  Adam- could you tell where
> you saw it?
>
> Thanks!
> Scott Austin
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