I didn’t have much time to fill the pages in this blog lately, but that’s life when you’re a student, right?

A few weeks ago I attended a garagegeeks Arduino workshop that Noni Katz hosted. I met a few good people there and learned a lot about electronics in general and Arduino especially. It was so much fun that I treated myself for a box full of sensors, motors and wires that would allow me to play with my chinese Arduino imitation for an entire year.

I also got this idea in my mind to host a workshop in Tel Aviv, where I will introduce artists, scientists, and technology masterminds to new and available collaboration tools, show them a few of the awesome projects that this kind of collaboration produce and encourage them to connect with other people in the workshop and divide into small groups and brainstorm. I was happy to find out that many people liked the idea and was interested in participating. So I’m working to make it happen and will update this page as well.

Another thing that’s new is another blog I started in ‘Cafe The Marker’, in the Hebrew language.
הבלוג בעברית: טקסט זמני

This week I also made some progress with my long awaited for MutliTouch table project. It relies on frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR), a technique familiar to the biometrics community where it is used for fingerprint image acquisition. It acquires true touch information at high spatial and temporal resolutions, and is scalable to very large installations. Here’s a first peek: