[sdiy] This would make a GREAT controller (Lemur-like)

[Nicholas Gregorich]

On Thursday, June 15, 2006, at 08:15PM, NATE! <timexheater at comcast.net> wrote:

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>yes it is impressive... but other projects of his have been brought up
>before as well [http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/] ... the big flaw with Frustrated
>Total Internal Reflection is that they dont really work in plain light
>situations since they are backlit and light sensitive. the same goes for the
>LED touch sensor he did since it is based on reflected light.

Thanks, I didn't even think of going up to the parent directory!  Awesome projects there.  I didn't realize the FTIR only worked in a dark room like shown in the video.

I wonder if OLED would work for a display and multi finger touch surface, similar to his project using LEDs as photodiodes.

Nick.