Monthly Archive: June 2009

Jun
30

Windows 7 and your Multi-Touch Table

With Windows 7 supporting multi-touch gestures and devices you can now make your own FTIR, DI or even a simple webcam based system to communicate directly with Windows 7. Thus, making your complete OS work with multi-touch. Community Core Vision (formerly known as tbeta) is program which gets feed from your camera and applies filters …

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Jun
25

Reporting from Driving Assessment '09

During the fourth week of June 2009, the biannual Driving Assessment conference was held at the beautiful Big Sky Resort, Montana. This is one of the most important driving related conferences. Andrew Kun and I had a poster presentation here, with the following title: Comparison of the Effects of Two Push-to-Talk Button Implementations on Driver …

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Jun
23

Better Tracking on the Touchkit

I’ve been working with the Touchkit for a while and have found that there are some tracking issues with the hardware. Particularly, when sliding a finger across the surface the tracker can lose the finger and pick it back up later. This issue causes a problem when writing an application for the Touchkit, since the …

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Jun
22

DTK Barcode Reader SDK Report

One upcoming necessity here at Project54 is the need to be able to scan licenses using a mobile phone camera. I designed an experiment involving many different camera capture formats and post camera capture image processing techniques to see which of these produced the most successful results using the DTKBarcode Barcode Reader SDK. This scenario …

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Jun
04

Alyssa Shooshan and Dean Hingson visit Project54

Alyssa Shooshan, Senator Gregg‘s chief of staff and Dean Hingson Senator Gregg’s new counsel, visited Project54 earlier this week. They toured our labs and the new Project54 garage (the location of our recent open house) and had a chance to see in person the results of Senator Gregg’s continued support for Project54. In the picture below …

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Jun
03

NH EPSCoR Conference and Workshop

On Wednesday June 3rd the New Hampshire EPSCoR Conference and Proposal Writing Workshop was held at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth, NH. EPSCoR stands for Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research, which is not very descriptive of its purpose. The goal of this huge project is to stimulate research in science and engineering in …

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Jun
01

Photo-Sharing Using Google Earth

We often use photo-sharing websites like Flickr, Picasa, Panoramio to show our friends our travel photos and interesting places. Many of these websites have the extra feature to geo-tag photos by placing them on a map (signifying the place they were taken). They also give kml feeds, which are files we can open in Google …

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