How to Make a Cheap Multitouch Pad – MTmini

Follow me on twitter: www.twitter.com *READ BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION* my website: www.sethsandler.com *NEW SOFTWARE RELEASED – GET IT FROM THE LINK BELOW* -Software and Getting Started Guide- ————————————- * MTmini Software and Updates sethsandler.com -What’s a MTmini?- ————————————- Don’t have a Multitouch Table yet? Have one, but need something smaller for testing? Building a small portable multitouch pad will allow you to test software and experiment on a smaller scale while building your full table or when away from your multitouch screen. Have fun and make a MTmini! This uses Front Diffused Illumination, with normal ambient light (infrared not required or needed) and a normal off-the-shelf webcam (IR filter can still be in place). -How’s it Work?- ————————————- For this to work, all you need is a room with (at least) some light. The results will be best when the room lighting is even (no bright lights shinning from one direction onto the multitouch pad). When you place you fingers on the surface, shadows are created where your fingers are. The webcam sees these shadows and sends the image to the tracking software which tracks the shadows as they move on the surface. It’s important to try different lighting setups and to configure the software in order to get the best results. Thanks to: ————————————- -David Wallen -Christian Moore -Laurence Muller -NUIgroup Community

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Comments

  1. VentoLT Said,

    I can’t manage to make it working. I have a question about your touchpad. How did you manage to achieve white fingerprints in the black background without IR leds? Did you apply some sort of filter to your webcam or is there some sort of setting in touchlib? I believe that is my problem – I have white background and black fingers.

  2. VentoLT Said,

    @Jesusability Depends on your pad. For example we have made (well, I’m a programmer only…) one at school which is pretty accurate. The only difference is that our pad is using IR LEDs istead of light (of course the webcam is cracked as well).

  3. Horseluver1236 Said,

    koolo!

  4. 1momerat99 Said,

    could you please link me to insructions for ubuntu 10.04 lts x86 thank you

  5. MrFree2006 Said,

    Wow that was amazing

    how can i do like this Multi touch

  6. wutzerface77 Said,

    that is awesome

  7. Aphsinthys Said,

    thanks a lot man, I think I’m gonna try to make some like that. Really enjoyed the tutorial. Great.

  8. SuperLostArchives Said,

    Thanks for making this video, I had the appropriate parts and I had this finished in about half an hour and had the smoke demo working!, but I have had a problem with the flash apps, when I open gateway.bat it says something like
    ….. paring OSC
    paring OSC.
    I have Java Runtime 1.6+ also. how do I fix this?

  9. cerupcat Said,

    @SuperLostArchives Don’t use touchlib, use CCV instead.

  10. siddon1223 Said,

    i am unable to install CCV..
    i have windows xp…
    when i click the ccv file(the main file) a command prompt like figure comes and just flashes for 1 sec… what should i do…???
    please reply…

  11. PCGamingHQ Said,

    Looks good, I didn’t think it would be so easy. I am going to start messing around with it and get it smaller ;) Thanks

  12. Culunchu Said,

    How do you install all the programs? I downloaded them but then what? what is used first? Could you please make a video with the actual installation and setting of the software? Thanks

  13. itsallaboutiphone Said,

    thats cool but dont get it like how it works

  14. lefteris96 Said,

    can i use another type of camera?

  15. mabellehudson63 Said,

    aah interresting Btw anyone up for some dity talk

  16. thingkinfast Said,

    @lefteris96 Any webcam will work for this.

  17. originalbigbang Said,

    @cerupcat

    Mate, great work. Does this work on Mac os X???

  18. XLeonhart1982 Said,

    Wow! This is great. A nice idea, thanks for uploading it.

  19. zbibles Said,

    this work with ableton live??!?

  20. MrFondrake Said,

    @XLeonhart1982 How did you do this anyway ? I did it like in the video but it just turned like a normal camera..

  21. MrFondrake Said,

    and, can someone post the smoke software download link ?

  22. antomix96 Said,

    oye funciona con cualquier web cam?? asta la dde un celular? gracias

  23. antomix96 Said,

    como utilizo el software??

  24. themogam Said,

    Hi guys…I tried the MTmini… its working everything is fine but I have a problem after I run the configapp, I get a white background and the shadows of my fingers r black…how can i get the result u had? I think thats the problem.

  25. cerupcat Said,

    @themogam Try CCV (community core vision) instead of touchlib. You’ll get simpler and better results.

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