Open Source Interface

PookyTouch - Enabling Multi-Touch in Mozilla Firefox

2009-05-11T13:19:48-05:00

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pooky/
(There’s nothing there as of yet, but there will be after the final presentation of the project (soon). The presentation demo will be recorded, and I’ll make sure to provide a link later on.)

For the past 12 weeks myself, and 8 other computer science students at the University of Ghent (Belgium), have been working on a Mozilla Firefox extension that would allow us to use Multi-Touch events in HTML-pages displayed in Firefox. Since we’re using tBeta as our input TUIO server, and some community feedback on the relevance of our project would be greatly appreciated, we thought we should post our project here.

PookyTouch allows you to catch Multi-Touch events in HTML-pages in Firefox, following the Safari API used for the iPhone. More specifically you can detect the “start”, “end”, “move” and “cancel” of a touch. Thus enabling just about anybody who knows how to create a HTML website (so really just about anybody) to easily write Multi-Touch applications. Those applications can then be run on any device that supports Firefox, going from actual Multi-Touch tables or walls to the more recently available Multi-Touch enabled laptops. For those who would be interested: We also support XUL.

We were wondering if a project like this ignites a spark of enthusiasm here at Multi-Touch central. So please, although it is rather difficult without actually being able to test the extension yourselves (working on an alpha), let us know what you think.

Grassy Knoll Gallery, Portland OR, July 2nd

2009-07-01T23:27:59-05:00

If you are in Portland on July 2nd join us at The Grassy Knoll Gallery for a solo exhibit of artist Yellena James work. Gorgeous and affordable original art and prints. In addition, Fashionbuddha Studio has collaborated with Yellena James and Radium Audio to create a custom multitouch application called Aquarium. A drawing application that brings her creatures and prints to life. Stop by, play around, say hi!

http://www.grassyknollgallery.com/default.aspx
http://yellena.com/blog/?p=65

best,

-robert
F ^ S H I O N B U D D H ^

Tables. TVs. Walls. What’s next?

2008-07-23T13:55:06-05:00

We’ve seen the tables. We’ve seen the upright TVs. We’ve seen the wall transformations.

We’ve seen a lot of very impressive work, and as a DIY community, we’re elevating this method of man-machine interfacing to a whole new level. So what’s the next step?

After talking a little with some others in the community, I’m convinced we can take this to a whole new level. So, this thread is for all of those with exotic visions of builds not seen before, of ideas that might seem crazy, and of cutting-edge techniques.

So you wanted a shiny new multitouch table on a strict budget, so you take some cash from the savings you’ve put aside for that huge TV you’ve been wanting. Why not have both? Why does your new multitouch platform be restricted to only a horizontal plane? Why can’t it be easily transitioned to a vertical format, without flipping the table over?

So let’s see it, folks. What’s the next big thing?

Need advice for a Webcam

2009-07-03T15:33:42-05:00

Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago I’ve found this great forum and I started to build my own multittouch table
I’ve made a small LCD DSI setup with a playstation eye
Everything works fine but the PS Eye, I’m using the latest drivers and I cannot use high resolution than 320x240@15fps . If I go at a high frame rate or resolution the webcam freeze and I need to restart ccv
I tried many different things (xp, vista, seven, all usb port) but it still doesnt work and noone seems to have a solution for this issue

So I’ve decide to switch for another webcam, but now the question is : “Which webcam should I buy?”
As I said I’m using a LCD DSI table but I’m planning to switch to a LLP with a projector

Does anyone have a good advice for a webcam? I need one I can remove the IR filter, put a bandpass filter and a wide angle lens if possible

Thanks!
Rampa

PyMT on second display

2009-03-30T17:22:05-05:00

I’m sorry if this has been covered, but I’ve not found it with a decent search here,

I’ve just dusted off my badly neglected table to try out PyMT, got it installed and running without too many problems, but I’ve one issue..

Can you get it to go full screen on an external display in Leopard?
I’m new to python, although I think I’ll be crash coursing over the next few weeks now PyMT is in my hands, and I just can’t figure it for myself.

the layout of compliant layer and diffuse layer(projection layer)

2009-07-03T16:28:54-05:00

There are several idea to setup the layout of the acrylic layer,compliant layer and the diffuse layer.
e.g. (from top to bottom)

diffuse layer
---------
should there be an air gap?how to make it small?
---------
compliant layer
acrylic layer

between the diffuse layer and compliant layer, there should be an air gap, otherwise the system
will trigger FTIR constantly, but how to make a small air gap between the diffuse layer (e.g. rosco
grey) and compliant layer? it seems so hard, since the rosco layer is so soft to support its weight
in the center of the layer .The diffuse layer and compliant layer can easily be attached together.

Some Belgian newcomer !

2009-07-03T06:44:21-05:00

Hello everyone,

My name’s Dimitri and I’m a 3D Computer Graphic Freelancer from Belgium. As work pace is getting quite slow lately, I decided to invest some time (and money, let’s face it :p) into building my own MT Table. I’ve been spending some crazy amount of time reading through the forum, watching people’s projects so I could find the method that would best suit me.

I must say I’m very impressed by the community who seems to be very active and passionate about what they do !

I just can’t wait to get started !!!

Official MultiTouchVista thread

2008-02-22T17:52:45-05:00

Finaly I made a video of multitouch shell I’m working on.
On this video you can see a normal windows applications that can be rotated and moved in “multitouch"-style.

[youtube]1jejZDzB0mU[/youtube]
[youtube]jIxQZo96LTM[/youtube]
[youtube]SqvFTbQASeA[/youtube]

pymt_config

2009-07-03T10:08:24-05:00

hello,

i’m on a problem with pymt that i can’t resolve.
After many resinstallation of python 2.6.2, pyglet 1.1.2 and numpy,
i always get the same error wile trying to play it in blender :

from . import pymt_config
importError : cannot import name pymt_config

do you got an idea ?

First i had some problems loading some .py from pymt, and i used to add folders in blender sys.path, and it finded it.

but with this message, i m lost ....

Wiin7 API and .Net 4 WPF Multitouch events

2009-06-17T11:07:42-05:00

My colleague Mike Taulty adn I are currenting building some Win7 MT examples.

We are using the Multitouch Vista project with the win7 driver - all working very well.

I’ve been working on the MT events in WPF4 playing with VS2010 and the .Net 4 beta 1.

Mike is working at the Win7 native api level.

I have videos below, Mike will have blog posts and videos later (blog here )

[youtube]0DM7NQJ0NA4[/youtube]

[youtube]CHsqS2QnR14[/youtube]

Anyone else doing stuff? Be create to see the things folks are producing.

Note we know their will be some event renaming in Beta 2 so don’t go building that enormous WPF 4 API just yet!

Cheers
Paul