The trackpad on the late MacBooks can track up to 10 or more (!) fingers at once. Fingerpinger is an external object for MaxMSP that we wrote around code from steike.com. It’s an experimental hack… but its fun and its free…
TrackPadSynth is a simple but fun example of what you can do with fingerpinger. It’s a standalone version, you don’t need MaxMSP to try it out…
Fingerpinger provides the following data in realtime (about every 8ms, very low latency):
You’ll need a recent Apple MacBook with Intel processor
MaxMSP 4.6 or MaxMSP 5
Fingerpinger 2009 by Michael & Max Egger is licensed under GNU GPL 2.0 http://www.gnu.org/
Code based on http://www.steike.com/code/multitouch/
On the latest MacBooks with 4 finger gestures, we could not find a way yet to suppress the gestures for Exposé, so you’ll be confronted much too often with flying windows when playing with fingerpinger. Any help for turning off this “feature” is greatly appreciated.
Somehow we had to copy the MultitouchSupport.framework from /System/PrivateFrameworks/ to the xcode project folder to be able to compile the external.
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[…] I nuovi Macbook (Pro) hanno una trackpad in grado di leggere i movimenti di tutte le dieci dita contemporaneamente. Fingerpinger è un oggetto per MaxMsp in grado di trasmettere in tempo reale i dati della suddetta trackpad… […]
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