July 12th, 2009

DIY laser-controlled keyboard

This is a wacky little project. Basically you train a webcam to follow a spot on a piece of paper. Then you set “hotspots” on the image and assign commands to each hotspot. When you aim at the spot you basically “press” a button.

Why would this be useful? You could potentially create a presentation system with this or help a handicapped person type with it. It’s also really cool. The whole… → Read More