Nasa World Wind used with Multitouch
The last 2 days I’ve been working on a new application (or actually a plugin) which controls Nasa World Wind. This is the result 🙂 * update: 23 ...
Hi, I'm Laurence Muller 🇳🇱
Software Engineer
A software engineer who is passionate about mobile apps, game development and data visualizations.
I'm a former Fellow of the SDR Lab at Harvard University (SEAS) and the founder of Epic Windmill, a software company that develops apps and games for mobile devices.
Multitouch Puzzle & Beamer Latency Issues
Last weekend I worked on a new flash application which is called the ‘Multitouch Puzzle Game’. This game is a tile based puzzle game which let user...
Two new howto’s added to the article section
I’ve posted two Howto’s on compiling touchlib in Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux (Ubuntu). Howto: Compile Touchlib in Windows Howto: Compile Touc...
MMA Pro
I have made a special version of MMA which uses the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) technology. It now supports adding images on-fly. Just connect ...
MMA update
Yesterday I looked into (ab)using google maps to use with the MMA. Because I did not felt like implementing an entire tile engine myself I looked ...
Multitouch Media Application v2 Release
Last weekend I code a keyboard in actionscript and added it to the Multitouch Media Application. At this moment you will only be able to type text ...
Multitouch Media Application Released!
Since the start of my project, I wanted to do a multi-touch media application which could be used for organizing photos and videos. I started my fi...
Touch Tracer v0.2.1 release
Not much new, just some minor bug fixes, improvements and compatibility fixes for the latest touchlib (rev. 61). Download: I’ve included a Windows...
Rear illumination and surface computing
Last week Microsoft presented their implementation of a multi-touch screen. They decided to create it in the shape of a coffee table. Examples of ...
Multitouch Windows XP?
If you take a look at multitouch videos on Youtube, most of them are related to photo manipulation.These demo movies show the possibility of scalin...
Touch Tracer v0.2 release
Last week I managed to get touchlib compiled under Ubuntu Linux (thanks Xvarg). While bug fixing and updating my touch tracer source code, I also t...
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 a...
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 w...
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 wor...
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 ...
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 (...
Multi-touch panel journey
Perhaps you noticed an article about multi-touch screen devices which I posted sometime ago. Inspired by the movies and publications of Jeff Han a...