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    Week 4 summary

    Howdy!
    Many of us are familiar with this intense feeling of satisfaction after something we've been stuck on for so long finally works out, after a long journey in unknown territory and a sign finally appear. This feeling is what I've been experiencing quite often last year, and it comes with great relief that I can say that my project is close to being finished.

    After burning my laser because of the intensity of the battery, I thought I was pretty much done with my project until a new one would come out from Amazon. I simply duct taped the camera to a white board for convenience sake, made some measurement on where to place the laser (when I'll have one) and the projector for optimal touch surface, and pretty much decided to wait until my laser would finally arrived.

    I'm still waiting, but the discovery of something amazing gave me the answer to a question I've been asking myself for so long now : How do I make a mouse with the raw x-y coordinates ?

    Powershell.

    Yes, the answer is Powershell, this powerful(get it?) Microsoft tool that will allow me to move the cursor and even simulate a right and left click anywhere I want on the screen ! My next step is to dive into the laser keyboard's code one more time to find the x,y coordinates, and write a Powershell script that I could run in C++ to move the mouse anywhere I wish to. Ah, technology is beautiful. I'm still waiting for that laser though.

    https://movemouse.codeplex.com/ : Software that introduced me to Powershell



    How to simulate a mouse click using Powershell

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