Dec 14 2007Make Huge Multi-Touch Screen With Wiimote
In the video above Johnny Chung Lee (from such videos as Spirit Fingers: Tracking Your Fingers With A Wiimote) shows you how to make a huge multi-touch display using a Wiimote and some infra-red LEDs. It's pretty impressive. And you know what else is impressive? The size of the pancakes I had for breakfast, those things were monsters! Just kidding, I didn't eat breakfast. Unless a cigar and a pint of gin counts. Oh and glue, I huffed some glue.
Johnny Lee's Wii Projects Page
thanks to Jab, a man who multi-touches hot chicks all the time, for the tip
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Reader Comments
1. Masterless - December 14, 2007 10:30 AM
Kudos!
2. Anexio - December 14, 2007 10:37 AM
Johhny "Chung"! LOL
Good post, he's very interesting.
Johnny Lee has some pretty good videos at youtube as well.
3. ManUclese - December 14, 2007 11:23 AM
I kind of have a crush on Johnny.
For serious.
That guy probably gets crazy ass.
4. PlayaJohnny - December 14, 2007 12:01 PM
Mmmmm . . . pankcakes. I could go for some of the huge ones at the Griddle Cafe on Sunset. Unfortunately, I live 3000 miles away. =(
BTW, this guy Johnny is pretty crazy.
5. Grrrrrl - December 14, 2007 12:50 PM
Mmmm, Johnny...
Smart is sexy.
6. Amy - December 14, 2007 1:46 PM
He's a witch!
7. guate6 - December 14, 2007 10:03 PM
Very impressive, I must say. This would probably be the only reason I'd ever get a wii. I'm not quite sure what one would connect the wii to really, but it seems neat.
8. berlinmassive - December 15, 2007 7:35 AM
hehehehe, lol, he says "penis" at 1:47
9. Jab - December 15, 2007 4:20 PM
guate6 - actually you just need the wiimote which you can buy separately for ~$30. Well, that and a computer with bluetooth.
10. guate6 - December 15, 2007 11:03 PM
#9: Thanks for the tip...I may yet be able to turn my projector into awesomeness.
11. puttputt - December 17, 2007 4:37 PM
The guy is fat, so as an American manager I will hire him as a technician, then I will hire guys that I think they are cool, pay them ten times his salary and give them all the glory of the invention.
That why "made in America" is number 1.
When was the last time you bought something not made in America, made by cool guys that like to party and hired by smart managers like me? Huh?
12. guate6 - December 17, 2007 10:56 PM
#11: wtf? Most of what everyone buys is usually "Made in China." Now if you were being sarcastic, that's alright.
13. jordan314 - December 19, 2007 6:18 PM
I converted a candy fan pen to an IR pen and wrote up instructions here:
http://jordanbalagot.com/blog/2007/12/19/converted-diy-ir-pen-from-candy-toy/
I replaced the motor with an IR led and ate the candy.
14. imbetter - May 25, 2009 3:00 PM
Theres a much better way to make a multi touch computer that you dont need to hold an infrared pen. You can make a glass surface with infrared lights shining through it and put the Wiimote or whatever infrared camera you have behind it. when you place your fingers on the surface the infrared light running through it gets reflected towards the wiimote which registers the increased infrared light coming towards it. i think that this way is much better because you dont need to be holding any infrared pen