Dec 21, 2008
Update
Haven’t posted in a couple of weeks…lots of action on the multitouch front, and not.
My monitor came in the mail. I started to disassemble it – just unscrewed a couple of screws and started to pry off the casing. I was talking to someone [Bridger Maxwell] about the monitor disassembly, and he told me that it was a good idea to have your table and monitor mount 100% ready when you disassemble, so you can plant the monitor in its spot and never touch it again – the more you move it, the more likely you are to get dead lines/pixels, or break it.
So, I’ve been making sketchup models of what my box is going to look like – I’m going with a wooden frame, covered with MDF. One of my friends gave me a great idea regarding how to mount the LCD:
. That’s a very rough sketch, but you get the idea – I was going to use a dremel, etc., but this is so much simpler – the bottom piece would obviously be much smaller than the pic, of course.
I’ve done a bunch of sketchup models, for the various possibilities – 3/4″ thick wood, 1/2″ thick wood, with a lower frame, without a lower frame…here are all of them, from rapidshare [[UPDATE: NEW LINKS]]:
It’s winter break right now, so I’m hoping I get a chance to go to Home Depot/Lowe’s and pick up some wood. Itching to take my monitor apart
Your rapidshare links are dead
Sorry about that – you’re absolutely right. I’m updating the post right now with new rapidshare link.
Thanks for the info,
–rbedi100
oh before you do that… rapidshare links only last 10 downloads if they are not associated with an account.
Have you seen this multi-touch sensor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l8TckUe5g
Hey Manu,
No, I hadn’t seen that – its pretty cool; looks like work similar to that of many nuigroup users – the pong app looks familiar.
thanks for sharing!
–rbedi100