j5 – Augmented Reality Robot The goal of this project was to create an immersive robotic tele-presence experience. J5 uses a combination of systems to achieve this. The robot streams stereoscopic video over the wireless network into a Google Cardboard iOS app. The robot can be driven via socket.io communication over a web server. The camera also pans and tilts using the device orientation angles sent via a socket.io client to the web server. To control the robot, the user opens the iOS app and accompanying web app. The iOS app is placed inside a Google Cardboard unit with the stereoscopic video stream playing in each eye. The user can now visualize the robot’s perspective. By looking up, the robot cameras look up. By looking to the left and/or right, the robot cameras pan to the left and right. Using the web app, the user can control the robot driving controls by holding down the...

Custom Agile Reports A series of custom agile team reports using ES6 and EJSC Charts. These custom plugins extend the ‘Rally’ API to create new custom reports. The Problem – The default reports in our task management system did not provide the fidelity or scope needed for management. The team structure of the department was more of a ‘graph’ structure than a hierarchical structure. Our core team was tasked across projects of a web of other teams. The Solution – In order to accurately track our teams productivity data was aggregated and filtered across the department. The available API endpoints were used, in theory creating a new API. Comments – In hind sight I would have abstracted this work into a true API, with new endpoints extending the Rally API and possibly contributing to future releases....