Sparsh

Sparsh – A Touch-sensitive desktop. “Sparsh” means “touch” in Hindi
– 2008, NovMultitouch, FTIR

Team:
Anirudh Sharma, Rahul Motiyar, Sudhanshu Gautam, Vivek Anand

Awards:
– 1st prize at IIT Kanpur Techkriti 2009.
– 1st prize at BITS Pilani’s Entrepreneurship Product Pitch Competition.
– Initial ConceptS work of “Team Sparsh” covered by Times Of India.

Sparsh is an interactive multi-touch table made by using FTIR techniques. In a team of 4, we designed, developed, and built a fully functional working prototype of a multi-touch console based on Jeff Han’s FTIR, with a range of software. It is a user interface that allows people to interact with computers and the digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items their entire life: with their hands and with gestures. It allows photo manipulation, visual effects, virtual reality, painting, etc.

Later in 2010, we worked on Concept S, a media mashup wall for kids and the elderly.

Concept-S
– 2010, Feb

The project aimed at creating simple interactions for kids and people with keyboard-mouse illiteracy. We developed a graphical Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) that could be easy, fun, and relatively easy for such target group. It is an interactive 100″ multitouch wall from India designed using Laser Light Plane (LLP) at IIT Delhi. This project was showcased at Degree Design Show at Industrial Design and Development Center (IDDC). It facilitates aerial gesture-based based human-computer interaction using infrared LED gloves.

Sphero

“A virtual sphere around you to help you track the things you care about and carry along.”

Implemented using RF communications.
An Arduino-based smartphone application that ameliorates the concept of a human-centered virtual cloud sphere and keeps a track of things we care about. It allows tagging of your important stuff with help of RFID smart card stickers. If you accidentally move away from your stuff or the stuff moves away from you, it will notify on your smartphone using communication techniques provided by Arduino. It also allows virtual social networking to share things with your friends in real life. This project was prototyped and developed at Design Innovation Workshop, Delhi conducted by MIT Media Lab.

Team
Kunal Gupta, Sagar Mohite, Nishank Varshney

Mentors
Nan Zhao, Nan Wei Gong (MIT Media Lab)

Sphero Presentation:
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MT mini | DIY | Cheaptest Multitouch setup

See jeff hen’s video below:

Materials Required (Hardware)-
-Cardboard Box
-Transparent/clear material like Piece of Glass/acrylic
-Paper sheet
-Normal Webcam or Video Camera.
-Computer
-Optional Picture Frame

Software – http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/

MT Mini is best for testing and you can make it in 7 to 8 hundred rupees. Prototyping is very easy.