Scott,<br><br><br>The software is called Touchlib (<a href="http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/">http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/</a>) and I was able to get it up and running in about 15 minutes. The tutorial I followed is here: <a href="http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/downloads/">http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/downloads/</a> Unfortunately, I never went any farther than the demo :/ It only runs on Windows, according to the site.<br>
<br>What you're really doing is building a really cheap "Frustrated Total Internal Reflection" (FTIR <a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirsense/">http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/</a>) table. It's the same concept behind the setup Jeff Han demonstrated at the TED conference (<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html">www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html</a>). Except, the 15-minute tutorial uses a sheet of paper and a webcam instead of an LCD projector and IR LEDs.<br>
<br><br>- Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Scott Austin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@thinkthankthunk.com">scott@thinkthankthunk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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>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?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Scott Austin<br>
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