Web Development
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Whodunit
After the success of my Ready Player One project the library decided that we should do a spiritual successor. I thought about different ideas, but settled on a mystery. Like RPO this would have both a digital and a physical component. I liked the idea of not going to far away from the things that…
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Patron Counter
After the library reopened to the public we were still under a strict max occupancy limit. Library staff needed to know how many patrons were currently in the library, and library management wanted to know how many people were in the building that day. My solution was to create a local web app. The app…
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Library List System
What do you do when the system that you’re using doesn’t work, you make a new one. The library needed a way to create lists and display them on the website, I could have started everything from scratch but, the catalog system already had a way to make lists, there was just no way to…
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Ready Player One project
As part of the Mount Prospect Public Libraries 75th anniversary I created a Ready Player One event. We thought that this would be a good way to introduce our new VR (Oculus Rift) system as well as piggy back off the movie coming out. The first thought was to have an event where we did…
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WEB VR
Since my initial experience with the Oculus Rift I have decided to try my hand at WebVR. What is WebVR? The ability to make Website into virtual reality experiences. Now I should preface this with VR is pretty new, and WebVr is very new, a lot of the demos and experiences are still just getting…
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VR
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to try Virtual Reality for the first time. I had tried Google Cardboard before, but I don’t consider that true Virtual Reality. The system that I tried was an Oculus Rift using touch controls and playing their First Contact demo, and I have to say, It was…