Where to Buy a Touch panel

http://www.virtualvillage.co.uk/8.9-touch-screen-panel-kit-for-asus-eee-pc-904/sku007900-044?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=shcomp&utm_campaign=8.9%20Touch%20Screen%20Panel%20kit%20For%20Asus%20EEE%20PC%20904

Asus Eee pc Touchscreen

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-add-touch-panel-to-asus-eee-pc.html

Building a Multi-Touch Sensitive Table

http://dundee.cs.queensu.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Multi-Touch_Sensitive_Table

Multitouch materials and references

Looks like we'll be making a touch screen using the FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) technique.

Materials required:
A wooden box (not completely necessary for FTIR but will look good)
Acrylic pane
Diffuser (decent tracing paper) painted with silicon sealant (to go over acrylic pane)
A projector
A PS3 camera (with IR blocking filter removed)
IR LED ribbon (not widely available in UK but easier than soldering 100 LEDs together)
Heat absorbing glass (to go between projector and acrylic)
2 fans (to keep everything cool)
A computer

Resources and sites to buy from:
http://www.peauproductions.com/
http://www.environmentallights.com/products/12610/InfraRed_Ribbon_Deluxe_Kit_European


Useful Vids and tutorials:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_a_multitouch_surface_computer?page=0%2C0

The below vids show you how to remove the IR filter from a PS3 camera (essential for touch screen). This is the preferred camera to use as it has a frame rate of 100 frames per second when used with the touch screen software. Frame rate is more important than image quality as the camera is used to detect movement.

What we've been up to

Over the past couple of months I've spent a lot of time online learning about Wiimote whiteboards, touch screens, Lego robots and all kinds of other amazing tech projects. I reckon I've probably picked up more knowledge from doing this research than I was taught at Uni and it's all down to people getting online and sharing their ideas, knowledge and experience. So, let's continue to share and see what happens when you get an interesting group of young people together to bridge the gap between creativity and technology.

We've spent quite a bit of time testing what you can do with Wiimotes. Thanks to Johnny Chung Lee we've managed to quite easily play around with Wiimote whiteboards and VR displays. I'd also recommend looking into Friispray to make your own digital graffiti wall.


Another relatively easy experiment was learning to create a touch screen. The group all tried creating their own touch screen using the instructions in the video below and it worked a treat. They've since decided that a great longer term project would be to make a durable, more professional looking screen so fingers crossed.