This is our first hackathon. Just 2 months ago, over the summer, we learned a bit of web development (Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS) through a program in Cape Town, South Africa. We showed up at MHacks completely unsure what we wanted to build, but excited nonetheless. While walking down the hall of sponsors, we walked by the Myo table and saw them handing out their armbands. I figured, what the heck, let's give this a try. That began our hardware adventure...
Like I said, we basically only knew a bit of Ruby, and here we were trying to hack a Myo, as well as an Oculus Rift which we rented out a little later. We also used the Unity software for the first to create our first game. Quinton and I divided the work: he worked primarily on the Rift, and I worked on the Myo.
Dozens of hours of struggling, failure, and learning later, I had a myo program running that shot red spheres into a black abyss every time I used the "Spread Fingers" gesture in the direction my hand was pointing. On the Rift side, Quinton had a program where when wearing the Rift headset, you could wander through an abandoned meadow/prairie-type setting.
We then merge the two systems so that you could use the Myo to shoot the sphere while wearing the Oculus Rift headset, which completed our first hackathon hack.
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