I am writing this special post to bring attention to this outstanding young lady who is fighting a disease known as neuroblastoma. I came to know about her condition through a friend and was deeply saddened that a three year old has to put up with these cruel facets of life. So I urge anyone who is reading this post to (stop coding) for a moment, head over and help by clicking the banner in the site which contributes to the funds that helps the girl. Or even just offer a word of sincere encouragement.
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Thanks to the help and advice from the guys over at NUI Group (www.nuigroup.com) forums especially the wonderful information supplied by PeauProductions (http://peauproductions.blogspot.com/), I have embarked on a project to build my own Rear DI Multi Touch table. I will be posting photographs and the progress of the building of the table.
This is the Playstation 3 EYE camera that will be modified to become IR capable. For people residing in Singapore, this is the packaging for the correct version of the camera to get. You can buy this at any Sony Style shop locally. Do note that some local game shops sell the European version of which I am unsure whether it is “friendly” towards modification.
The Camera removed from its shell
The dismantled pieces:
The lens mount removed from the circuit board:
I think I did a pretty lousy job in removing the IR blocking filter from the rear of the lens mount, look at those jaggy edges:
This is the IR blocking filter removed. It was damaged when it was removed.
The visible light filter installed (cut out from floppy disk). This filter functions by blocking out visible light and letting infrared light through.
And this is my work desk where all the mess is. The top right corner is a wide angle (180 degrees) IR illuminator that I am using for the Rear DI set up.
Next I will be making the box to sit the small piece of acrylic I got from a local art and craft shop (12″ x 18″ x 3mm(T)). It is available at Art friends for all you Singaporeans out there and costs around $8 only. Great for testing and fiddling around. I will be running tests soon using tbeta once I find time and I will post the tracking results.
On a side note: I am also intending to build a DSI table which uses a special acrylic called Endlighten. If you are living in Singapore/Malaysia and are interested in getting a piece of this very hard to get acrylic please contact me and let me know. I have managed to find a local manufacturer who has kindly indented and offered to laser cut the standard sheet (120″ x 80″ to 10 pieces of 39″ x 22″ x 10mm(T)) at $200 USD per piece. There are 4 pieces left for reserve as of this posting.
Its here! Singapore’s first RIA conference. There will be many exciting topics that will be presented by the “various RIA factions” such as Google, Adobe and Microsoft. Microsoft will also be setting up XBox 360 booths to entertain the attendees. So pop over to RIAction.sg and register your place now, registration is free.
Promotional video for RIAction (Homemade 
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If you are experiencing an issue where spaces are added into your email subject especially for dynamically generated subjects, consider using base64 encoding for your subject field in the email you send out or if you use non-latin characters or even binary data.
This problem occurs if you use xpertmailer for php which uses Quoted-printable encoding by default.
I quote one important information from the wikipedia page on Quoted-printable:
ASCII tab and space characters, decimal values 9 and 32, may be represented by themselves, except if these characters appear at the end of a line. If one of these characters appears at the end of a line it must be encoded as “=09″ (tab) or “=20″ (space).
If you are using xpertmailer, you can set the encoding in the following manner:
$m = new MAIL5();
$m->From(’you@example.com’);
$m->AddTo(’recipient@example.com’);
$m->Subject(’Look at this example, it is a very’ .
‘ long subject line which may be subjected to ‘ .
’spaces added unknowingly.’, ‘utf-8′, ‘base64′);
$m->Html = array(’content’ => ‘Your email HTML content here’);
echo $m->Send(’sendmail’) ? ‘Mail sent !’ : ‘Error !’;
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