Porta Touch - new user built touch midi control surface

Porta Touch - new user built touch midi control surface

taken from the NUI group page

Community member portatouch, a sound-designer/engineer and composer from little Switzerland brings us a very well designed portable MT solution. As the video above showcases the construction is easily broken down and reassembled and uses a Apple Mac Mini providing a full package device.

Here are some device details:

Specs:

  • Benq 2410 HD LCD Panel (1920 x 1080 Pixel)
  • 8mm Endlighten XL Plexiglas (Touch Panel Frame)
  • IR-Led-Ribbon 850nm with 160 Led’s
  • 8 mm Endlighten XL Plexiglas (for the Backlight)
  • 2 Original Backlight Tubes from the Benq 2410 HD Panel
  • Unibrain Fire-i Firewire Camera, 30fps, 640x480 Pixel, 81° Wide Lens
  • 850nm Acrylic IR-Longpass-Filter
  • MacMini Core 2Duo 2.66 Ghz running OS X Leopard, CCV 1.2, ReacTIVision 1.4 and Quarz Composer
  • Fiducial (with ReacTIVision) and finger recognition (with CCV 1.2 / 5 ms response latency)
  • Mounted Dimensions: 75cm x 45cm x 35cm (W x D x H)
  • Mounting Time: 3 min. with 12 Screws, few cables
  • Boxed Dimensions in Flightcase: 75cm x 45cm x 15cm (W x D x H)

Layers:

  • 8mm Endlighten Touch Panel Frame with IR-Led-Ribbon
  • Benq 24” LCD Panel
  • 8mm Endlighten with Backlight Tubes on the long sides
  • 3mm Plexiglas on Aluminium Frame as Mounting Surface
  • Fire-i Camera mounted 30cm under Touch Panel

http://nuigroup.com/log/porta_touch/

it uses a similar principal to the old “diy microsoft surface” except this uses an lcd rather than a projector