Making The Game – Teil 3: Technische Grundlagen

Increasingly we read in test reports and journals of capacitive and resistive touch screens, but very few of us know what the differences, the advantages and the disadvantages are. Besides these two methods, there are other optical methods for detection of contact points, which are more often used in larger devices such as PCs and touch-tables.     Touchscreen technologies Touchscreens consist in most cases of the display, that is just like normal monitors used for image output, and the overlying touchscreen, which recognizes the contact points and passes them to the computer. The touchscreen consists of three components. The touch sensor, the controller and a software driver. The touch […]