The Update
Posted by: mtpsycho on: March 15, 2009
I’ve been away for a while currently, but am back now and i worked for a sometime on the project, follows my update to what i’ve reached and my state.
1) Bought and Built the Container Wooden Box with Dimensions of 55 cm X 55 cm X 85 cm which means a square based box and with height of 85 cms, i chose those based over my current Acrylic sheet and the possible height to be comfortable. costed around 100 EGPs
2) My Unibrain Camera Arrived and i Configured it out to work, and had been through excessive testing for the capturing rates, and as u might know i’ve been using the tracking software released under the name tBeta, but wt has astonishing is that tBeta using the Unibrain camera only Captured 7 ~ 10 fps @ 640 X 480 resolution, so i freaked out as if i saw a gohst. i thought at first that my Computer is not functioning correctly, and i restarted it couple of times and tried the software once again, then i got this amazing idea to try some video capture software and see how fast it captures data, i tried the normal capturing apps that comes out with the webcams, and i’ve seeen more than amazing capture rates, i then decided it was tBeta’s fault and decided to change the tracking software, i then redirected towards TouchLib which is the mostly used Tracking Software out there nowadays, (tbeta is the latest and i decided that it would be gr88) however i got TouchLib to work and it wasnt a pretty good idea, i had almost no Finger Tracked from the Camera 
and i was crying out by that time, i suddenly noticed a massive increase in the CPU Usage and Memory Leakage towards Touchlib, i then shut the Computer off and went screaming OUT LOUD, then i remembered reading soemthing related to a CPU Fix for TouchLib or something that makes tracking more effective, i’ve went to nuigroup and then started digging and found the Fix, i applied the Fix and Voilat i have a working Camera with 30fps @ 640 X 480 but with no single fingure tracked!!!!!, i thought that would be the reason of normal color capture and not modding the camera to capture only IR light and that the 85 cm height made the refracted light weaker and not captured due to other color distortion or interferance, i went to my old webcamera (Trust) and picked the Film Negatives i made for it and tried them out on the new Camera and i finally got some bulbs they aint the best but they are bulbs, and finally i could use a speedy tracker and a good working hardware (not the best i imagined, but it’s good), according to my Military status and state of unemployment, so am broke off money and i cant yet buy the new Lasers and the IR Band Filter, for the time being, but what i can say is am NOW have a gr88 Step forward of having a Sterotype/Prototype that it’s a working and it’s working nicely.
NEXT STEPS:
1) Train for writting apps for MT
2) Write a Good Drawing and PhotoManipulation Application that is smart to detect a connected Camera, USB, etc… and get the photos in an album style, something good for a PhotoApplication.
3) Find a Job to pay the Bills and Pay for the New Materials
4) Making the MT Table more Affordable, am going to try out the PS3Eye Camera it would dramatically decrease the cost of it, with even better performance as has been published lately.
5) Accept All Possoble Donations from Money, Credit Cards, H/W, Projectors, Anything
6) Try to Integrate the WiiMote with the MT Table to make use of the Accelerometer presented there.
Please Donate to My Sweet Project 
(Just Kiddin)
