Almost Two years later…

Almost two years after my last post in February 2011, I have decided to revive this blog.

Since New York I have been keeping myself busy working in the industry, pumping out one web project after the other.

While gaining invaluable professional work experience in multiple commercial projects of different types and scopes, I still neglect my experimental, interactive work.

By constantly keeping at least one eye on the NUIgroup community, I noticed a well paced development in just three years, when it comes to building DIY mt devices.

Despite familiar techniques like FTIR, DSI, DI, LLP etc. still being around and popular, building set ups utilizing photo transistor matrices becomes seemingly more trendy.

That very approach caught my attention, since it tackles one of the main annoyances I experienced, dealing with an optical mt setup including a projector. Even eliminating

the need for a projector by swapping it for a LCD matrix, still requires a minimum distance between camera and the backside of the display-surface.

By using photo transistors instead of camera and projector or LCD matrix, a DIY mt setup could possibly shrink to an estimated height of something about 2Inch.

Now that’s pretty cool.

However, digging just a little deeper I quickly realized, that there’s quite a bit of electronics and C language brushing-up work to do.

But that’s ok,  since me aiming for a more transparent publishing of learning curves, I should be able to post more frequently at the same time 🙂

My next post shall contain a sketch of my proof of concept.

mfg gabor

Filed under: Arduino Wiring, Thoughts, Visual Diary