Marshall Capps
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Marshall Capps
Software Systems Engineer Texas Instruments DLP
"I grew up watching the evolution of electronic programming and just fell in love with it," says Marshall Capps, 29. He followed his father, brother, and sister to Texas Instruments so he could "get physical with hardware." While playing Nintendo's Duck Hunt one night, he envisioned writing on a surface too far away for him to touch and realized that TI's digital-light-processing projection technology could help him do it. On his own, he developed PointBlank technology, which relies on a DLP chip with up to 2 million tiny mirrors. Its primary application: "freeing teachers from a fixed place" by allowing them to write on InFocus LiteBoards with Point-Blank "pens" from across the classroom. The aim, he says, is to give teachers more control.
— Emilia Benton
"I grew up watching the evolution of electronic programming and just fell in love with it," says Marshall Capps, 29. He followed his father, brother, and sister to Texas Instruments so he could "get physical with hardware." While playing Nintendo's Duck Hunt one night, he envisioned writing on a surface too far away for him to touch and realized that TI's digital-light-processing projection technology could help him do it. On his own, he developed PointBlank technology, which relies on a DLP chip with up to 2 million tiny mirrors. Its primary application: "freeing teachers from a fixed place" by allowing them to write on InFocus LiteBoards with Point-Blank "pens" from across the classroom. The aim, he says, is to give teachers more control.
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Digital Light Processing (DLP) is a trademark owned by Texas Instruments, representing a technology used in some TVs and video projectors. It was originally developed in 1987 by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments. DLP is used in DLP front projectors (small standalone projection units) and DLP rear projection television. -- Wikipedia (5/26/2010)
