Open-Source Multitouch Display

shankar writes "Engineers at Eyebeam, an art and technology center based in New York, have created a scaled-down open-source version of Surface, called Cubit. By sharing the Cubit's hardware schematics and software source code, the engineers are significantly reducing the cost of owning a multitouch table. 'Multitouch displays are not new technology; in fact, they've been built in research labs for decades. Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs created an iconic multitouch table called DiamondTouch; more recently, Jeff Han, founder of Perceptive Pixel, based in New York, developed wall-sized multitouch screens that he sells to corporations and major government agencies. But because of the falling costs of many touch-screen components, such as infrared light sources and small cameras and projectors, it's now becoming feasible for people without access to a lab or venture-capital money to make their own multitouch displays.'"

Comments

Don't forget Reactrix...

[HaeMaker]

http://reactrix.com/

Cubit Websites

[crf00]

Here are Cubit's project websites:

http://nortd.com/cubit/
http://eyebeam.org/project/cubit

mr. lee

[Anonymous Coward]

johnny chung lee's had it down for years: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Someone needs to get compiz running with this

[seandiggity]

Seriously. Even if they just get the fire/water effects of compiz going with a device like this, it would be much more awesome than the demo videos. Could have a small table like this as an input device, and a larger screen to show all the compiz coolness. I don't have the requisite skills, but I hope someone in the community hears me :)