Lighthouse Stylus_

An open-source, low-cost 6-DoF spatial stylus you can build and use for your own projection-based interface research. Sub-millimeter accuracy. Replicable. Yours to hack.

Lighthouse Stylus device

01 — Give feedback

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02 — Explore the source

Hardware files, firmware, and documentation are on GitHub. Fork it, break it, improve it.

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03 — Stay in the loop

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04 — Read the paper

Published in the proceedings of TEI '26. Full text via ACM Digital Library.

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3731459.3779348,
  author    = {Rijnieks, Krisjanis},
  title     = {Lighthouse Stylus: An Accessible 6-DoF Input Device for Projection-Based CAD/CAM Interfaces},
  year      = {2026},
  isbn      = {9798400718687},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3731459.3779348},
  doi       = {10.1145/3731459.3779348},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},
  articleno = {88},
  numpages  = {6},
  series    = {TEI '26}
}

05 — More work

Other projects and research at rijnieks.com.

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