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I have found out that covering your silicone rubber sheets while curing gives a better end result. This way small dust particles in the air can't settle and cure into the surface of the silicone rubber. Usually these small particles cure into the silicone rubber and therefore create little...

I've been rather busy lately, so there hasn't been a lot of updates.

We received 4 samples of rear projection screen from Teknilux in Sweden. Eventhough the black sample had a very nice image (a bit better then the other 3), it was totally useless with the silicone rubber sheet. No blobs at all. The 3 other samples worked very well. But the material is less sturdy...

Peter Bomark my colleague of the Hardware Design and Construction Department developed a couple of conceptual 3d models for multitouch devices. I posted two of them below.

We ordered a new camera for our research. It's the Unibrain Fire-i™ Digital Board Camera. And this baby is sweet. After having thoroughly tested the Philips SPC900NC, we definitely wanted to test out a firewire cam, because of the general knowledge of a firewire cam being faster then a USB cam....

We have shipped our first orders to the States and within Europe. We got more orders for these silicone rubber compliant surface overlays, so we will be busy with producing them the upcoming days.

Today we ordered a nice firewire camera for us with 2 lenses. Hopefully it will be arriving somewhere next week so we can do some serious testing with that baby. I'll be putting more details here lateron.

I briefly talked about IR rear illumination in an earlier post. But there's also IR illumination from the front (ambient IR). Therefor it would be suitable to have a general name for both these methods. Whitenoise came up with the word Diffused Illumination, which sounds as a fairly good...