laserTraq makes it possible to use one or more laser pointers as input devices. Using a camera or other video capture device and gStreamer, you film your surface and define your play field. laserTraq calculates the coordinates and outputs them.
| Tags | Scientific/Engineering Image Recognition multimedia Video Capture |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: The build scripts were slightly improved. The GUI uses less CPU time. A glade file was added for low resolution environments. Delay options were improved. Bugs were fixed.


Release Notes: Sensor handling was added. A minimum delay between keypresses was added (for keyboard output). A bug in keyboard output and some GUI bugs were fixed. The gnome-desktop file was fixed. glTagDemo was added. An "explosion" effect was added to cubeDemo. Minor improvements and minor cleanups were made.


Release Notes: Executables can now be launched as output. traq_cube, a nice OpenGL demo was added. There were also minor improvements and some bugfixes.


Release Notes: Sources can now be explicitly enabled or disabled. The GUI window now is smaller on startup. gStreamer pipeline elements don't need a name anymore. Minor bugs were fixed.


Release Notes: Threading bugs were fixed. Laser-on/laser-off delay was added. Minor GUI improvements were made.