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I moved my xserver github repository to http://github.com/brysgo/xserver now this is not to make people thing that my repo is the official one, instead it is so I can use the master branch to mirror the official one. This will allow me to make the blob branch the one I am modifying. Now this major change isn't just based on an outburst of OCD, although I can't say that it didn't have anything to do with it. A second benefit of this, that I will not be able to take advantage of, but others will, is that my master branch can be forked with github. Since I plan on keeping the master branch up to date with the official repository using a cron job, others can take advantage of this and fork my repo with github. I don't know if anyone will find this helpful, but I certainly would have.

The blob branch is still continuing and will hopefully get finished by the end of the school year. I have been using the issues list in github.com as my to-do list for the project. When I get through the rest of the things listed there my code should be ready for another review. After I run it past Peter, I will either have another list of issues to take care of, or I will be able to start testing.

Now that my coursework has eased up slightly, I will be allocating more time for multi-touch work. I plan on picking up the pace of my Xorg blob events project and also CSH's multi-touch table.

While they still aren't in a working state yet, my blob events repositories are available on git hub here. If you want to take a look at what I have so far, run a git diff against head of the mainstream xserver or inputproto repository.

Progress on CSH multi-touch was on hold towards the end of last quarter due to some of the complications caused by attempting to do blob detection with visible light. Namely, it would be very hard to cancel out the projector's image in the camera. This quarter instead of doing this, CSH will be turning to the time tested method of rear Diffuse Illumination (DI). For this, CSH will be buying 4 LED boards containing 48 LEDs each. I also plan on bringing up the purchase of a PS3 eye camera since the one we are currently using is being borrowed and still has the IR filter in it. It would be preferable to get a pre-modded PS3 eye that already has the filter we need.

The CSH multi-touch machine has been wiped and Arch Linux has replaced Ubuntu since rolling releases are easier to work with right now. The latest version of X is running on this machine and "mpx" is functional. I am working with Ryan Huffman to try and get his mpx tuio driver working.

The CSH multi-touch table should be starting to come together towards the end of the quarter, I hope to have it ready well before the RIT Innovation Fair so that CSHers have ample time to write software for it.