A Lil Multitouch in my Life

I’ve been following this multitouch buzz from a few months now, Last month i presented a paper on multitouch with a intention to educate the people in my college about the usability of multitouch and guess what i won the first place

The first article which really made me enthusiastic about multitouch was a home inventor called Blaxwan’s blog, he provided a detailed step by step instruction of build one at home, i was very impressed, from his blog i was redirected to Jeff Han’s Presentation Video at TED

From then there was no looking back i got crazy about this tech, i searched for hours in the net for more articles, finallyy i landed up in a forum named NUI Group, man this place is a like a treasure island for homebrew multitouch displays, softwares,hardware and all discussion regarding building a Multitouch similar to microsoft surface at home.. I got to learn many many things from that forum

From there i learnt to build a Mini Multitouch setup, my bro bought me a Xbox Live Vision Cam and i built the setup, man was i amazed , i was over joyed to have a working multitouch trackpad in my house

Following are some of the pics i took of the setup

The XBox Cam and My Nephew’s Foot

The Exterior of the Entire Setup, Yeah yeah I know i couldnt get better box

It really dint cost me anything to build this, expect for the camera which costs 40$ and the rest of the things came within 50 cents thats like around 20 Rs in India

Below is the link to the demo video

My dream is to get a working Multitouch table built and develop some unique softwares for it. Ill keep this blog updated now that i got PR