Want to build a Game Table.....Heres how.

Well theres two different kinds of touch screen.
1.)Actual Touch Screen - Heres a link to an article where Maximum PC Magazine actually built a Multi-Touch Screen Computer. Touch of a finger does it all. This article has all the links to all the appropriate sites that will help you build a touch screen table computer. I will tell you that it is a very time consuming project. Very Tedious. Heres the link: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/featur ... e_computer

2.)Smartboard setup - This version (Which I have integrated into my Game Table) works like a classroom smartboard. The software I use is Smoothboard.
Heres the link: http://www.smoothboard.net/ This is the software that maps out the area that will recieve the signal from a Wii remote.

The Wii remote then recieves the signal from a infra-Red pen that works like a Mouse. The software that allows your computer to communicate to the Wii-Mote is called Blue Soleil.
Heres the link: www.bluesoleil.com

I opted for the second option because its easier than the first.

Heres the link to where I got the inspiration for my game table and detailed instructions how to build it: http://tyrendes.wordpress.com/

I did upgrade from that guys table by opting for a classier look and hardier materials. I used oak and I have artistic friends who are painting up side panels in fantasy art styles.

 

This is the game table I built:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/cy ... derak.html

 

I used this projector:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6824157096


And I just went to a local hardware store and bought 1/4" thick plexi-glass and they cut it to a 3' x 3' sheet for me.

in retrospect I wish I would have done a widescreen, rectangular shape to the plexi-glass sheet.