Using my frickin’ laser touch table with Maptools for a L4D kind of zombie apocalypse thingie – Zoe, Francis and Bill are about to get chomped. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2FElhcqVQM
Category Archive: Digital Gaming Table
Oct 31
My Touch/Gaming Table
Just a short video of my table in action. I got the lasers calibrated this weekend. Still needs some carpentry work to lock down the U channel that keeps any stray laser light from leaking off the edge of the table. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTe15HvXOw0 It’s based on Laser Light Plane technology or LLP and I’m using 4 …
Oct 11
Gaming Table Update
I’ve decided to switch to using IR Lasers to make a LLP or Laser Light Plane style table. I’m just unable to get IR LED’s to work the way I want them to due to the size of the table. The LLP method should work and is cheap enough to experiment with to see if …
May 21
Multitouch Driver Windows 7
I was looking for a multi-touch driver to use in Windows and it took some looking obviously enough to get one that worked the way it should be. One that emulated the touch ability of a typical Windows 7 tablet. This is for my Multi-Touch Gaming Table experiment. Speaking of which I do have an update, …
Apr 22
Digital Gaming Table 4/22/2011
Received my PS3 camera with m12 2.5mm lens and 850 nm IR filter as well as a 25 LED module string of IR lights and a roll of Vellum from Dick Blick Arts. The vellum provides a pretty nice projection surface although of course it’s going to be prone to picking up finger oils and …
Apr 17
Digital Gaming Table 4/17/2011
More work on the making of the multi-touch functionality to get it working. Running some issues that I think are attributable to my tablet pc which has multi-touch on it already. Currently in the process of building a working system from spare parts I have laying around. Will be far from awesome, a dual …
Apr 15
Digital Gaming Table 4/14/2011
Technically this is from yesterday but what the hell… I cracked the case on my logitech 9000 pro and was able to easily remove the IR Filter in spite of various postings on the web that it was impossible to do without destroying the camera. Not difficult although you need a soldering iron and very …
Apr 13
Digital Gaming Table 4/13/2011
More progress was made. You can see pictures of the stages on the DGT page but to sum up, sanded, routed, puttied, sanded, stained, acrylic cut, access hole cut, ventilation holes cut. I’m going to be using magnets, rare earth magnets to be exact and steel bolts to keep the access door closed rather than …
Apr 12
Digital Gaming Table 4/12/2011
Got some more work done, added the fourth wall missing from yesterday, added trim work to the base, created the capper, sanded everything with some rough grit to get it semi-smooth. You’d think I’d of gotten more done today oddly enough after thinking about it. There are a couple of new images on the …
Apr 11
Digital Gaming Table 4/11/2010(b)
Good news, I was able to make a visible light filter out of a piece of old negative, screenshot attached. I know it’s not the ‘best’ filter for this but it’s the best free filter and free goes a long way with me. Those two ‘eyes’ are the IR LED’s in the cable remote I’m …
Apr 11
Gaming Table Update 4/11/2011
I’ve picked up the lumber to make the box for the upgrade to the gaming table. I just saw a new video about DSI style multi-touch tables like the old video that uses the FDI or shadow method rather than DI or FTIR reflected IR light. Since it only requires some software (freely available), a …
Apr 09
Gaming Table Going Digital
My gaming table is going to get a digital option. If you’ve been a regular visitor over the yeass you’ve watched it go through a few upgrades, the original, the new table top and then the double decker topper. Now I’ve decided to move to the digital age. I’m going to remove the double decker …
