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Enjoy the view
For the past several days, I have received parts for constructing my touchscreen prototype which is based on Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR). Today I will cover how the lens of the Philips...
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One acrylic plate, one afternoon and one tired arm
The FTIR prototype which I am building will be using an acrylic plate which will be mounted in a frame. I tried to maintain the aspect ratio of a regular screen (4:3). The size of the plate is 41 x 31...
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Aluminum frames
Inspired by other FTIR prototypes I decided to use an aluminum frame. The main reasons for are because its cheap and strong. Before actually working on the frame, I made a drawing in AutoCAD. Within...
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Let there be light
In this final step of building the FTIR prototype I will cover the soldering of LEDs. In my previous blog post I already calculated that 30 LED’s would be enough to cover the entire plate. As power...
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It’s alive!
It works! After the last blog not much had to be done about the FTIR screen. Actually I only used some tape to hide the wires on the sides. With all LED’s in place and the frame being placed on two...
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I’ve posted two Howto’s on compiling touchlib in Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux (Ubuntu). Howto: Compile Touchlib in Windows Howto: Compile Touchlib in Linux Both compile instructions apply to...
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An introduction to emulation
In the early 90s I primarly used my Commodore 64 (C64) for gaming. As Santa never gave us a Nintendo, I probably used my C64 until the late 90s. At that point I was introduced to the concept of...
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NodeBeat, openFrameworks and Android
Last month we (Seth Sandler and yours truly) released the Android port of the popular iPhone/iPad music application NodeBeat. NodeBeat was created by Seth Sandler and Justin Windle earlier this year...
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PlayBook add-on (ofxQNX)
After receiving my BlackBerry PlayBook through the developer offer in March, I started to think of the possibility of porting NodeBeat to the PlayBook platform. As this is my first tablet (yea I know,...
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