How does the interactive whiteboard work?
SMART Board M700 and M700V series interactive whiteboards function as input devices for your computer, enabling you to work in any application on your connected computer. You need two more components to use your interactive whiteboard: a computer and a digital projector. Here’s how these components work together:
Your computer runs an application and sends the image to the projector.
The projector casts the image onto the interactive whiteboard.
The interactive whiteboard detects contact with its screen and sends each contact point, along with Pen tool information, to the connected computer.
When you touch your interactive whiteboard’s screen, the touch of your finger becomes a mouse click, and you can control your computer from your interactive whiteboard. When you use a pen tool, the pointer changes to a pen, so you can write over your desktop or any open application with digital ink. Dragging your palm across the interactive surface erases digital ink.
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Your interactive whiteboard determines how you are interacting with its screen by measuring the size of the object detected close to its screen. The smallest detected object is identified as a pen tool (tip). A larger object is identified as a finger, and an even larger object is identified as an eraser.
When you install SMART Product Drivers, the SMART Ink dynamic (floating) toolbar appears on your desktop. You can change pen settings such as the transparency, color, and width of the ink. You can then save your notes to a file in SMART Notebook software. You can also customize other tools, such as the width of the eraser tool you use to erase notes.
SeeUsing SMART Ink