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 all LED’s in place and the frame being placed on two chairs it was time to finally test the FTIR screen.

All LED’s are fully functioning :D !
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Testing with 5 and 2 fingers…
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10 finger test:
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Video containing a summary of the project and some demo applications
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To get the Touch Tracer tool (from the demo video) please click on read more.

Project description:
Name: Touch Tracer
Purpose: To display recognized blob’s and for debugging purpose

Install instructions:
1. Put all files (touch_tracer.exe and *.bat files) in the same dir as touchlib.dll
2. Either run the bat files or edit them.
touch_tracer.exe requires 4 arguments: width height bitdepth refreshrate
example: touch_tracer.exe 1024 768 32 60

General note, as the readme.txt states, this application needs libraries of visual studio 2005. If you don’t have those, you will be prompt with an error message.

Todo:
1. Show the path of a tracked blob and let it fade away over time.

Download:
Touch Tracer v0.1 Binary

Optional downloads
msvcr80.dll and msvcp80
- Required if no vs2k5 runtime dlls are installed
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Redist. Package
- Entire package if the one above fails