Build a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with Everyday Materials. Combine low-tech materials with some high-tech components and build a completely Touchless 3D Tracking Interface.
Explore capacitive sensing by using several panels of cardboard lined with aluminum foil. These panels, when charged, create electric fields that correspond to X, Y, and Z axes to create a 3D cube. With the aid of an Arduino microcontroller and some supplied code, movements inside the cube are tracked as your hand moves around inside the field. For Weekend Projects makers looking for an introduction to Arduino, this is a great project to learn from.
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‘oppopet’ requires no driver, and can be used by simply connecting the USB tail to a laptop or computer. Equipped with an on-off switch, the 2.4GHz, 3-button optical mouse weighs 55 grams and runs on a single AAA battery. The tail doubles as the device’s USB wireless receiver view of receiver. 'nesting pc virtual tablet' by sono mocci - 'FUJITSU design award 2011' competition shortlisted entry. May 05, 2011 'nesting pc virtual tablet' by sono mocci 'FUJITSU design award 2011' competition shortlisted entry ‘nesting pc virtual tablet’ by sono mocci a concept by japanese-born, italy-based designer sono mocci, ‘nesting pc virtual tablet’ is a combination tablet and data visualization interface with automatic battery charging and data syncing. phones, memory cards, CDs, USB ports, and I/O cables can be plugged directly into the device, where they will show up as images on the touchscreen for easy manipulation and access. the design was shortlisted from over 1000 concepts in our recent designboom competition ‘a life with future computing‘, organized in collaboration with FUJITSU. closer view of the phone, which can be used normally when docked in the tablet view of the tablet’s dedicated ports closer view of the hybrid virtual-physical machine in use white version jenny filippetti I designboom.
Nesting pc virtual tablet by sono mocci - FUJITSU design award 2011 competition shortlisted entry. 'nesting pc virtual tablet' by sono mocci a concept by japanese-born, italy-based designer sono mocci , 'nesting pc virtual tablet' is a combination tablet and data visualization interface with automatic battery charging and data syncing. phones, memory cards, CDs, USB ports, and I/O cables can be plugged directly into the device, where they will show up as images on the touchscreen for easy manipulation and access. the design was shortlisted.