TouchKit: modular multitouch development kit primed for DIYers

NOR_/D's TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit that aims to "make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion." If that sounds awfully familiar, you're probably thinking of its sister project Cubit, both of which are hoping to get multitouch into the mainstream as quickly as humanly possible. The kit itself is composed of hardware and software aspects, and of course, source files are provided for poking, prodding and researching. Interested? It'll be $1,580 shipped with a "fully assembled, frameless 70- x 50-centimeter multitouch screen, a calibrated infra-red camera, and the full base software pack."

[Via Gizmag]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:07PM]

$1580!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:11PM]

70- x 50-!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:27PM]

cm!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:28PM]

EXCLAMATION MARK!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:36PM]

EXCLAMATION MARK!!!!!

[Deyanimay Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:57PM]

DOUBLE POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:19PM]

That's great for lazy DYIer! or you can build one yourself for under a grand and make it better. (Like I'm doing)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:16PM]

multitouch!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:27PM]

That guy looks like Chuck Norris.

Like really, he does.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 6:34PM]

A much younger and much thinner Chuck Norris.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:36PM]

true true...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:38PM]

Hmm. This is great and all.

But I still prefer what that Johnny Chung Lee guy who developed a driver for the Wiimote and made apps that were multitouch and pratically only used the Wiimote. So... 40-50 dollars? Better than 1580... Plus he made it open source.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/wiimote-repurposed-for-multi-point-interactive-whiteboard/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/11/work-your-wiimote-with-your-fingertips/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:38PM]

OH DAMN!!!!! Vote it down.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:40PM]

Wow, i'm really digging a ditch

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:49PM]

Kit is awesome, picture is awesome, price is ehhhh.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 4:09PM]

good .. hope one day it will be more consumer friendly and cheaper !

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 4:09PM]

Uhm, it says projector not included so expect to put at least another grand into it.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 4:12PM]

That's touching really

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 4:45PM]

I don't understand the joke, please explain it?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 26th 2008 11:36AM]

All I can think about is an LCARS-based home automation computer terminal.

I just ... LOVE! scanning for lifeforms! Oh little lifeforms! Little lifeforms! Where, are, you. DODODODODODODEW!