![]() | DIY Capacitive Touch Made Easy
Capacitive touch allows electronics to sense when your finger is within a few millimeters of a surface to simulate a button "press" without the use of an actual mechanical button. You'll notice the feature on the new Xbox 360 Slim. Here's a... |
![]() | Convert any Laptop Screen into a Touchscreen
With the VisualTouch kit, you can convert any laptop computer screen into a touchscreen. To do this, pick up touch screen supplies such as those in the VisualTouch kit (many sizes are available). One of the key things to remember is to keep every... |
![]() | Multi-touch Desk with Curved Surface
This "BendDesk" is a proof of concept prototype which promises to change the way we interact with our workspace. The entire desktop includes the curved vertical surface as well as the horizontal and is a large seamless multi-touch surface.... |
![]() | Build Your Own Multi-Touch Surface
We've covered a fair amount of multitouch projects by now, and here's another great method of building your own. It's actually far more simple than you'd think as we showed in our 5 minute, dirt cheap multitouch example a few years back. Far... |
![]() | Install an iPad in your Kitchen Cabinet
About six months ago, we showed you the the iKitchen, a touchscreen computer with iPhone-emulator installed on it. Essentially, it was the iPad before the iPad even came out. Here's a similar project which details how you can install an iPad in... |
![]() | iBar – Interactive, Multi-Touch Bar Counter
The iBar is an intelligent touch surface display which let's patrons interact with it while they enjoy a drink. Similar to Microsoft Surface, the system detects when you place objects upon it and re-acts accordingly.
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![]() | iKitchen - DIY Touch Screen Wall-Mount Computer
This New Zealand modder decided to make a touch screen PC for his kitchen so his wife could keep inventory of their food, print out shopping lists, access the web, watch TV and use it as a normal PC. First, he found a cheap touch screen monitor... |
![]() | Flexible Interactive Multitouch Display
In the past we've seen plenty of flat, hard multitouch displays. Even a multitouch pad you can build yourself in just 5 minutes. This multitouch pad, on the other hand uses several force sensors covered by a foam pad to read human input. The... |
![]() | Learn How To Build Your Own iPhone!
Are you thinking about buying that new shiny iPhone? If you like that pretty new interface and cool touchscreen, then you don't have to wait in line to get the features. Here is an Amazing I-Hacked.com Tutorial that teaches you how to... |









































