I'm working for SuperTouch / Interference Inc now and it's a bit of amazing. Tore open an LCD screen today, made a foam-core box, reassembled all the electronics inside of the box, added a bit of vellum for a diffuser behind the transparent LCD and moved the backlight to the bottom of the box. I am preparing to create a multi-touch screen out of the box/lcd.

Really early prototype made out of foamcore....also I miss my mohawk and IR blocking shades.

Here are the wireframes of the cases, they were all lasercut over at the AlphaOneLabs hackerspace in Brooklyn and assembled by hand using acrylic weld.

Here is one of the 6 laser cut cases that I created before any electronics, speakers, cameras or lights were put in.

Again the inside of the case before any electronics were put in. You can see the holes for the high powered luxeon led lights were a real snug fit.

Bringing out the big guns for testing. this is  DL3 robotic projector...google it, it's the hotness.

In order to control this beast I had to write a little program that checked commands coming from a flash app and send out midi commands to the control panel (seen in the back left) which in turn would send commands to the robotic projector.

A few of the electronics in place. IR camera, luxeon lights, lcd power board on the far wall, backlight on the bottom, video circuit with a reaaally fragile flat cable ready to be plugged into the lcd screen.

Justin assembling some of the IR led frames.

Here is an early test to make sure our touches were going to be good enough with such a low profile using such a wide angle camera.

Another early test.

After a LOT of changes and revisions from the client, the client's client and whatnot...it didn't turn out quite as we had envisioned it, but it was really fun to build and I was able to learn a lot about creating one off prototypes.

Huge thanks to Alpay Kasal, Sam Ewen, Justin and Seth Sandler for all the help and support on this crazy project.