Oculus Rift Demos

We brought in a few Oculus Rift units for folks to demo. This is what the students are probably going to be using and working on this fall or early next year.

Everyone who was brave enough to try it had a great time riding dragons, rollercoasters, and spaceships.

All Hands Active loaned the Oculus Rifts for the lunch time fun. If you are interested in showing the Rift technology to your kids or friends contact Martin for a tour.

Beginner's Book on Arduino

Recommendation from Tony Weil on a good book to start exploring Arduino.

"This is the book I used and it will get you up and running with the basics very quickly. It's available on Safari Books online at the Unversity Library, so its free to read online. 

The Internet related projects at the end are a bit dated and don't utilize any of the new Internet of Things products and just use basic Ethernet hardware, but maybe that's a better place to start.

Parts and tutorials are available from places like Sparkfun.com and Adafruit.com"

http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/hardware/arduino/9781430232407

• Beginning Arduino

• By: Michael McRoberts
• Publisher: Apress
• Pub. Date: December 23, 2010
• Print ISBN-10: 1-4302-3240-4
• Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-3240-7
  
  

Demo the Oculus Rift - Virtual Reality

June 12th at noon we'll have a couple of computers with the Oculus Rift. Come check out what kids will be asking for around the holidays. More humorously see your coworkers freak out on a roller coaster.

As always join the MCommunity group for invites and announcements.

https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#group:ITS%20Innovation%20Lunches

The Oculus Rift's are provided by All Hands Active, one of Ann Arbor's Makerspaces.