{"id":112,"date":"2007-12-11T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T10:43:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:43:27","slug":"turn_any_surface_into_a_touchscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/turn_any_surface_into_a_touchscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn any surface into a touchscreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktully.net\/\">Kieran<\/a> for pointing me towards this impressive Wii Remote hack, covered by Engadget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/12\/10\/wiimote-repurposed-for-multi-point-interactive-whiteboard\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Chung Lee has done a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/wii\/\">marvellously simple hack<\/a> which uses the standard Wii remote controller, plus some ballpoint pens modified to emit infra red, to convert any surface into an interactive touch-screen. With multiple pens, you can support multi-touch effects (as seen on the iPhone and iPod Touch), and previously <a href=\"http:\/\/snoopdos.com\/blog\/index.php?title=multi_touch_interaction_experiments&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">mentioned on this blog<\/a> back in March 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of his technique in use:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5s5EvhHy7eQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5s5EvhHy7eQ\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Make sure you watch the video long enough to see the technique in action; it&#8217;s very impressive, especially when combined with a video projector.)<\/p>\n<p>Johnny&#8217;s software to make all this work is free, and available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/wii\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Kieran for pointing me towards this impressive Wii Remote hack, covered by Engadget here. Johnny Chung Lee has done a marvellously simple hack which uses the standard Wii remote controller, plus some ballpoint pens modified to emit infra red, to convert any surface into an interactive touch-screen. With multiple pens, you can support &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/turn_any_surface_into_a_touchscreen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turn any surface into a touchscreen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}