If you are interested in learning more about Do It Yourself (DIY) multitouch technology, I highly recommend reading a free community written book named Multitouch Technologies.
The book is completely free and you can download a pdf copy here. The book is a short read. It’s about 60 pages and most of it is more reference material for people building their own systems.
The content is also almost one year old and this content seems to be changing rapidly.
Here are some chapter details:
- Hardware Technologies
- Introduction to Hardware
- Introduction to Optical Multi-Touch Technologies
- Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)
- Diffused Illumination (DI)
- Laser Light Plane (LLP)
- Diffused Surface Illumination (DSI)
- LED Light Plane (LED-LP)
- Technique Comparison
- Display Techniques
2. Software & Applications
- Introduction to Software Programming
- Tracking
- Gesture Recognition
- Python
- ActionScript 3 & Flash
- .NET/C#
- Frameworks and Libraries
In the last section ‘Frameworks and Libraries’ you will find a section on multitouch simulators. My open-source SimTouch application is mentioned which is pretty cool.
Now how do I get them to plug my website?
