Description
After struggling several years to find an easy-to-use and cost effective multi-touch hardware development platform, I almost concluded that there are no vendors or solutions to meet my (company’s) needs. It is true that companies like Synaptics, Cypress offer such multi-touch ICs, it is impossible to get their products as a small company or a DIY engineer.
So, I decided to make my own and OpenMT is the result.
OpenMT - OPEN source MultiTouch development platform is a collection of open source hardwares and softwares for anyone to make his/her own thin and flexible multi-touch panel.
Unlike camera-based multitouch, OpenMT lets you make a thin, flexible multitouch surface.
Features
* Super cheap, thin, and flexible true multi-touch solution
* Pressure sensitive
* Full live multi-touch data
* Advanced gesture recognition
* Arduino friendly
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Great job! This is really interesting. Can you give more information about the engineering details of this project? What are the sensors and how are they providing pressure sensitivity? What is the pressure resolution? And most importantly, do you think this technique would be practical right now for large interactive surfaces?
I am just learning to work with arduino, but would love to try and build something like this, specially if it has good pressure sensitivity, that would be the key advantage over current "touch" screens.
Hi, check out the following WIKI article:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/openmtproject/index.php?title=ArduMT1
Sensors are made of Velostat. Sensing range is not yet exactly checked.
If you don't need transparency, it can be applied to a larger surface.
If you have any further questions, feel free to post yours here or OpenMT Forum at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmtproject/forums
Hi, very interesting. I work with Tier 1 OEMs now who may have interest in this technology. How do I get more information? I happen to be with a company that makes optical multi-touch sensors.