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Touch screen mounting assembly for LCD panel and method for fabrication

A touch screen mounting assembly for a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) and a method for fabricating a touch screen mounting assembly for use on a LCD panel are disclosed. The mounting assembly includes a bottom frame that has a plurality of attachment means mounted thereon, a backlight panel that has a plurality of pressure-sensitive transducers mounted thereon, a liquid crystal display panel, and a top frame for exerting pressure when mounted to the bottom frame such that a plurality of compressible springs biases the LCD panel towards the bottom frame when touched or contacted by a user. The pressure-sensitive transducers may be suitably piezoelectric transducers that produce a flow of electricity upon sensing a pressure. Information are taken from Free Patents Online.

Famous Grouse - Scotch Whisky commercial

The Famous Grouse Experience (2002)

ART+COM created in cooperation with the London based Land Design Studio the "Famous Grouse Experience", an interactive show specially designed as the main attraction of the Glenturret Distillery Visitors Centre.

In this "interactive environment" – a room with floor and wall projection – visitors are able to interact with film images in real time. By jumping or stamping they can break the ice projected onto the floor. They can also run across the surface of the water, making waves as they go (without getting wet). Up to 20 people can enjoy this experience simultaneously.

There is close linkage between the show’s content and style and the familiar TV advertisements for "Famous Grouse". The lighting choreography, an interactive sound system and the aroma of whisky diffusing through the room make it all an experience for the senses. The show’s playfulness provides 800 visitors a day with an unconventional encounter with this brand of Scotch Whisky.

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Footsteps

"Footsteps" transports and spatially rearranges the
sounds of traffic
on a public staircase. Physical footsteps on the stairs structure a composition
which is unpredictable on a small scale, yet ordered on a larger scale by the
rhythmic movement of people from space to space.

Two microphones on each step pick up the stepping sound which is amplified
and routed to one of 16 speakers suspended from the ceiling in an adjacent
enclosed space. The stairs are not visible from the space, and the space is not
visible from the stairs. Only by stepping back and viewing the space as a whole
does the system become apparent.

Installed for six weeks, the installation became part of its environment,
familiar and perhaps anticipated in traversal of the building. Ever
changing but with an underlying sense of order, "Footsteps" transforms
the 'viewer' into a participant who steps, listens, and detects patterns.

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THE INTERFACE

The interface has to be made in MAX/MSP or in Processing. The background is going to be blue like a sea, I´m going to draw circles around the place where the user touches. I have to have circa 4 transparent layers of circles, they make the waves.

How does touchscreen work? (project 2)

I created a high box made out of cardboard, at the bottom is a web camera or a video camera. There has to be an infrared filter on the camera so it can read the black dots, which the user has created by touching the surface. At the top of the cardboard box, is a polycarbonate sheet that has to be very smooth on all sites. There has to be a infrared LED circuit all around the sheet and when you push (walk on) the polycarbonate sheet, the LED´s light up and give the camera a signal where it has been touched. The LED´s have to be linked together with wire and then plugged to a power supply.

What is Lexan?

LEXAN is a registered trademark for General Electric's brand of highly durable polycarbonate resin thermoplastic intended to replace glass where the need for strength justifies its higher cost. It is a polycarbonate polymer produced by reacting Bisphenol A with carbonyl chloride, also known as phosgene. Lexan is the brand name for polycarbonate sheet in thicknesses from 0.75 mm (0.03 in) to 12 mm (0.48 in). Applications are mainly in three domains — building (glazing and domes), industry (machine protection and fabricated parts) and communication and signage.

Lexan polycarbonate is one of the most widely known "plastics". Lexan sheet with its unique combination of high impact strength, flame retardancy, and thermoformability makes it ideally suited for security applications. No other plastic can match Lexan's combination of light transmittance (clarity), and the ability to withstand extreme impact.

In thicknesses of .125", Lexan 9034 sheet will transmit 86% of the light. Lexan 9034 is UV stabilized, has a heat deflection temperature of 270 degrees F at 264 PSI, and has a smoke density rating less than 75. Lexan 9034 is engineered for window glazing as well as for sign applications. In addition to colorless (clear), Lexan 9034 is available in solar gray and bronze in thicknesses from .080" to .500".