How to Make a Cheap Multitouch Pad
Have you ever wanted make a multitouch pad yourself? Now you can make it and it is so easy that you can do it in just a few minutes. It will only cost you $5-$50 depending on the availability of the required material at your home. It mostly uses material that is readily available inĀ most of the households. You need to have:
- Piece of Clear Flat Sturdy Material (ie. Glass, acrylic, plexiglas)
- Paper (ie. printer paper, tracing paper, almost any paper)
- Webcam or Video Camera (I use a Philips SPC900NC)
- Computer (dual core recommended, but not needed)
- Optional Picture Frame
- And a Finger Tracking software like Touchlib. Touchlib is needed to use front illumination XML file.
The Touchlib works on only PCs for now but there are plans to launch a Mac version soon. Watch the video below to see how to make a cheap Multitouch Pad at your home.

hey! I’m from argentina a you are great man! I have some question .wear I can download the programe for PC to conect the camera??? I can conect that to MIDI controler ?? and how? please contac me!! this is grat!
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