MTbiggie is a DIY surface for the masses (video)

Practical or not, there is no denying of nerd Gasm of error-prone wow factor of Microsoft surface. Of course teuer-surface - as it is unless you a millionaire you're probably not buy one expensive for personal use. There are some DIY solutions are out there, but designers and developers Seth Sandler has come up with the cheapest and easiest yet. Built from approximately $400 worth of material (you have some of them lies probably on your House / apartment / Dungeon), the MTbiggie brings big-screen multitouch for the masses. As the hacker of previous homebrew multitouch device, MTmini, there is nothing particularly difficult, can be found here. All you need is a couple of chairs, a mirror, a projector, an infrared webcam (you easily along with some old film negatives and cardboard hack can), a large sheet of paper and a similarly large piece of clear acrylic. Put it all in accordance with the instructions in the video below and in no time you are finger painting and angry birds on a screen play, your iPad-- and may your kitchen table, even dwarfs.

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