“I have been reading about DIY touch screen table projects for a while now, and I find most of them very complicated. Often They imply using a videoprojector, reflection mirror and IR camera. The result gives you a complete multi touch screen solution, but you need some depth for the videoprojector to have a big screen. Not the best solution for a coffee table…
I made this tutorial to help people to build their own touch screen solution based on any flat screen TV. It uses light triangulation technology to read the coordinates. This method is quite cheap ( the priciest part is the TV), with a good quality image and you can make the table almost as small and as thin as your TV is.
Of course, nothing is perfect and with this solution it’s not possible to build a 100% multi-touch screen and it’s hard to cover the entire screen area. But depending on the way you make it you can have some interesting results. Plus, I am sure there are a lot of possibilities I haven’t thought about to improve this.”