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Playsurface: An Open-Source Multi-Touch Computing Table

Playsurface: An Open-Source Multi-Touch Computing Table

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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The engineers behind Templeman Automation are developing Playsurface, an affordable open-source touch table for “ordinary developers and consumers.”

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Roger Linn’s newest music interface victim of tablet wars

Roger Linn’s newest music interface victim of tablet wars

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Neither Roger nor myself is interested in making Amazon out as the bad guy. They’ve invested a lot in the Kindle and they’re within their rights to try to protect that investment. And I’m betting the folks who ran TouchCo were more than happy with the terms of their buyout. Still, watching this video, I have a nigh-irresistible urge to play with a LinnStrument, myself, and it irks me that I can’t get one.

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Multitouch display support in Linux

By Adam Flaherty

Adam Flaherty

I make cool stuff and write about other people making cool stuff on makezine.com. If you have something you think I should see, send me a tip.

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Adding a capacitive touchscreen to your Linux netbook just took a huge leap forward. Developers at ENAC Interactive Computing Lab in France recently published a video showing multitouch support on a standard PC running Fedora.

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