You have seen Microsoft’s Surface, amazed with the possibilities, but we still love Jeff Han: Low Cost FTIR. (Surface is also FTIR). That’s why you see my group of student (BScCM, SIG MoCap) research and developing their own Multitouch hardware and interface. Remember, Surface has limited on 52 touch points, we have no limitation. Crazy student Jason make his own tracking blob library and give up other existing library. Wonderful team with Ashley, Don, Cinny working very hard for few overnights on hardware and …

I was teaching in the class “Microcontroller and Embedded system“. In the first 3 lesson, we use LEGO Mindstorm as a warm up. We given the application provided by LEGO and use JAVA with eclipse to write the RCX. (We are still using Mindstorm 2.0, but will use 3.0 with bluetooth one next time I do the class!) The second, or the main focus of this class is Arduino. We use Arduino IDE to write Arduino. Student need to finish the tasks in every class. From analog to digital, complex …

I have posted “Multitouch fever” where has a link from sport4minus.de who was producing multiouch table and open out the whole progress. Today we can see a very fine-developed final product loopArenaMTC which is Jens wunderling, the webmaster, crewed with MTC.

The interface is programmed in Processing 0091 using the proMidi Library. But it seems to me that the version in the video is kind of openSoundControl (from the page). And it mentioned it is using libavg, a graphic library, do the tracking.
Extended Reading:
touchLib (which TUIO is developed under …

Recently the whole HCI community or even media art community are very keen on inventing, duplicating or copying the Multitouch interface, with different shape, form or application. M$soft show you their power of money and technology: Microsoft Surface.
According to the reserach page of Surface, it is based on the research “Play Anywhere“. Honestly, I am impressed by concept of Play anywhere, not the technology. (sure many people even students can make the similar thing easily) After the over-heat trend of Jeff Han’s FTIR Multitouch and his great presentation on TED, …

SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and …

When action script can deal with bitmap, real time filter is just a fast add-on in the world.
Onyx is a flash-based video mixing application, now has its version 2 available online. Looks nice and fansy. May be can get the code and do more.
Web site: http://www.onyx-vj.com/

DarwiinRemote’s cell break – wiitomidi help you read your wii remote XYZ and convert into MIDI signal.
http://mike.verdone.ca/wiitomidi/

(image from http://www.natrium42.com)
DSerial has its version 2 out now.
“It is a card that provides USB client, serial and GPIO ports as well as a 2D tilt sensor. It enables you to interface NDS to MIDI keyboards, servos, sensors, GPS receivers, computers and more.”
It simply turn NDS into an interface with touching panel.
If you wanna play wifi, DSmidiWifi. Just skip DSerial, controlling via WiFi.
http://dsmidiwifi.tobw.net/
With the oldskool hand made MIDI cable, you can connect DSerial with instrutment like syntherizer, keyboard or midi-in enabled devices. But you need a bit basic …

Multi-touch becomes a very hot topic recently in the area of interaction design and media arts. Because of the search rate increase by the reason of iPhone’s multi-touch? tag “multi-touch”?
Jeff Han finally found Perceptive Pixel, Inc. to provide multi-touch, as business solution? Fever!
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Extremly hot topic, links share:
Open source, Projects and papers and researches
NUI group, working a group of “Open source Multi-touch” , wiki and forum, super helpful.
http://nuigroup.com

mutli-touch console
http://macrone.de/multitouch/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Building a multi-touch sensitive table
http://dundee.cs.queensu.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Multi-Touch_Sensitive_Table

MERL diamond touch
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
Jazzmutant, very expensive small multi-touch device, midi in/out.
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php
Tactex, Tactex MTC Express:
http://www.tactex.com/products_array.php
Sony CSL, SmartSkin:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartskin/
Sony CSL, HoloWall:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/holowall/
Andrew D.Wilson, …

Midi Mixer! Each channel is sending midi out. Demostration Video by ZERO8 feat. Numb x Saidrum.
And, KossPad is out, at HK$2600.
Web site: http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Dance/KP3/

Student from the class SM3124 Pervasive Computer and Mobile Application made one of their assignments by using Wiimote to play with some of their home made application/game. Video on youTube. And will open source soon!
Wii Flickr – by Chris

Wii Cola – By Nic

Wii Shake – by Marvin

Wii Sex – by Nic

Wii 3D – by Ray

Wii Kiss – by Tomy

Wii Flight – by Joesph

(image from http://www.makezine.com)
Phone/Mail/Web/iPod
Don’t hesitate to click the feature and watch the interface introduction!
Special recommend on the photo album, the view method, zoom in and out, with two fingers roll in and out, isn’t it by Jeff Han’s Multitouch interface?
Accelerometer make the phone a great potential game platform.
Proximity sensor! My God, don’t even need to find the button to turn on the display!
The OS is OSX?!! Goodbye Window Mobile Edition.
Actually, this is not a phone, is a computer. When I can try it?!

http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Extended readings:
http://chinese.engadget.com/2007/01/09/first-iphone-pics/
Don’t miss it! iPhone introduction by Steve …