Introduction

When I saw the Laser-Tag Project from the great guys of GRL i liked their idea instantly. They used a Software made by Theodore Watson and Zachary Lieberman. I made a Linux Version using Gnome and Gstreamer. This is no port of Agent Watson's program.

What it is

laserTraq is a suite to use every X11-Application with one or more laser-pointers as input-device. For this a video-capture device, that is supported by gstreamer, is needed. By defining multiple sensors per video-source (or multiple sources), you can have more than one Input (e.g. two red lasers on different surfaces, red/green lasers on the same surface, etc.) You will be able to define the Pixel-Height/Width of your target and have the laser-pointer coordinates scaled accordingly. They can be output:

• to the X-Mouse - The mouse is warped to this coordinates and clicks.
• to the keyboard - a predefined key-press is simulated when the laser is detected
• by tcp/ip - Transfer the coordinates over network to some other machine.
• to stdout - simple formated printout of coordinates.

Download

...getting laserTraq

Documentation

...the first place to look at ;)

Utilisations

...examples of how laserTraq can be used

ActionShots

If you use laserTraq outdoors, please send photos/videos.

WorkingSystems

...hardware that has been reported to work

Links

• Wiki-Article about laser-graffities on bralug.de; Parts of my sources are used and cool stuff is done with it.
• Apodio claims to be a "COMPLETE AUDIO / VIDEO SYSTEM ON A BOOTABLE CD UNDER GNU/LINUX". It contains laserTraq.

Thanks

• Thanks to charly^vrpe,
• all developers of the Gnome/Gtk/Gstreamer project.
• evilmorph for the splash-screen background.
• Elvis

Bugs

Use the Issue-Tracker to report bugs/problems/feature requests etc. Please attach highest verbosity level output when reporting bugs

Donating

• Any donations are welcome (fast-food, gadgets, presents, proposal of marriages ;) Most welcome is contributed code that pushes the project further.
• I don't have a video-beamer anymore and it's hard to develop laserTraq without one (ok I admit, it's less fun ;). If you got an old one (which may even be broken) and you like to donate it, please get in touch.

Contributing

Developers

...needed. If you like this project and know C/GTK/gStreamer well, please consider contributing.

Contact

Please give feedback: rigid@boogiepalace.hopto.org or just leave a comment

Chat

There's a jabber-chat at lasertraq@conference.lmu.selfip.org ... You can also find me as '''rigid''' on freenode.