[Noisebridge-discuss] capacitive touchscreen

[Ray]

Hm, that could be a good idea, then the size of the window the whole thing
is in wouldn't be limited to whatever touchscreen i can find
. Though this is right next to the cnc plasma, and i wonder about gunk from
that clogging up the light sensey things.


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:

> Make a light curtain! That way people just have to poke AT the numbers and
> won't have to touch some piece of hardware with their dirty, slime, grungy
> shop fingers ;-)
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Ray <waywardengineer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm making a keypad for the access control system at the Boxshop, and i
>> thought a fun idea would be to have the numbers be glowing in the middle of
>> a clear window into the room that the keypad is for(numbers themselves
>> would probably etched into a piece of clear plastic that's lit from the
>> edges). Then people would touch the numbers and the sensing would be done
>> by a capacitive touchscreen
>> I didn't have much luck googling for a touchscreen that you could just
>> buy, so i was wondering if anyone had any experience buying/hacking out of
>> a cheap or broken tablet/making one?
>>
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