A deep dive into Space Rover Mission using sensors, hand gestures, and Arduinos

What a great way to kickoff the new year! Join us for an engaging presentation by 2 of IBM's rockstars on the interactive Space Rover Mission Iot game. In this talk, you will learn how to bring your Arduino projects online using modern Java technologies.

Speakers
Harry Hoots, Chuck Bridgham

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Harry is a Software Engineer working as the team lead on the Open Liberty Kernel team and is based at IBM’s RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. He has 25 plus years of experience working in various IBM divisions such as Global Business Services, and the IBM Cloud and Cognitive group. Harry holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Check out this blog post to learn more about Harry’s activities in open source: https://openliberty.io/blog/2021/10/07/HarryHoots_MeetTheTeam.html

Chuck is the WebSphere Core Runtimes architect and Development lead for the Open Liberty Project based in IBM’s RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. Chuck has been involved in open source projects spanning 20 years including pioneering the Eclipse platform, Eclipse Web Tools Projects for Java and Node.js.

Abstract

# A Java Space Quest: Roam the Universe using sensors, hand gestures, and Arduinos

The Space Rover Mission is an interactive, table top IoT game in which you take control of a 3D-printed spaceship, and guide it home by using simple hand gestures interpreted by a laptop camera. Along the way, you have to navigate obstacles like meteor showers and the sun that cause damage to the ship, while visiting neighboring planets to gather supplies. The game uses popular IoT hardware (Arduino, ESP WiFi modules, and sensors) and a Java microservice architecture built with the rich set of API’s from both MicroProfile and Jakarta EE.
In this talk, you will learn how to bring your Arduino projects online using modern Java technologies by discussing the following topics:

• How the Space Rover game came about.
• The architecture of the game from both a hardware and software standpoint.
• The developer benefits of using the API’s provided by the Eclipse foundations’ MicroProfile and JakartaEE specifications to rapidly create your Cloud applications

At the conclusion of the presentation we will hold 2024 officer elections.

Schedule
6:00 - meet & eat
6:30 - announcements, jobs exchange
6:45 - presentation
7:45 - 2024 officer elections