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## Inspiration
In college I have weird 50 minute slots of time in between classes when it wouldn't make sense to walk all the way back to my dorm, but at the same time 50 minutes is a long wait. I would love to be able to meet up with friends who are also free during this time, but don't want to text every single frie... | # Inspiration
We came to Stanford expecting a vibrant college atmosphere. Yet walk past a volleyball or basketball court at Stanford mid-Winter quarter, and you’ll probably find it empty. As college students, our lives revolve around two pillars: productivity and play. In an ideal world, we spend intentional parts of ... | ## Inspiration
As University of Waterloo students who are constantly moving in and out of many locations, as well as constantly changing roommates, there are many times when we discovered friction or difficulty in communicating with each other to get stuff done around the house.
## What it does
Our platform allows r... | losing |
## Inspiration
A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s... | **check out the project demo during the closing ceremony!**
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## Inspiration
On average, half of patients with chronic illnesses like heart disease or asthma don’t take their medication. Reports estimates that poor medication adherence could be costing the country $300 billion in increase... | ## Inspiration
While talking to Mitt from the CVS booth, he opened my eyes to a problem that I was previously unaware - counterfeits in the pharmaceutical industry. After a good amount of research, I learned that it was possible to make a solution during the hackathon. A friendly interface with a blockchain backend co... | winning |
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future.
## What inspired us
We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work.
## Background
If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te... | # The Ultimate Water Heater
February 2018
## Authors
This is the TreeHacks 2018 project created by Amarinder Chahal and Matthew Chan.
## About
Drawing inspiration from a diverse set of real-world information, we designed a system with the goal of efficiently utilizing only electricity to heat and pre-heat water as... | ## Inspiration
When we were deciding what to build for our hack this time we had plenty of great ideas. We zeroed down on something that people like us would want to use. The hardest problem faced by people like us is managing the assignments, classes and the infamous LeetCode grind. Now it would have been most useful... | winning |
## Inspiration
Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest.
## What it Does
It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a proof-of-concept for a potentially useful device that could be used commercially and at a large scale. We ultimately designed to focus on the agricultural industry as we feel that there's a lot of innovation possible in this space.
## What it does
The PowerPlant uses sensors to d... | # Easy-garden
Machine Learning model to take care of your plants easily.
## Inspiration
Most of the people like having plants in their home and office, because hey are beautiful and can connect us with nature just a little bit. But most of the time we really don´t take care of them, and they could get sick. Thinking... | winning |
## Inspiration
* New ways of interacting with games (while VR is getting popular, there is not anything that you can play without a UI right now)
* Fully text-based game from the 80's
* Mental health application of choose your own adventure games
## What it does
* Natural language processing using Alexa
* Dynamic ga... | ### Friday 7PM: Setting Things into Motion 🚶
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ECHO enriches the lives of those with memory-related issues through reminiscence therapy. By recalling beloved memories from their past, those with dementia, Alzheimer’s and other cognitive conditions can restore their sense o... | ## Inspiration
People struggle to work effectively in a home environment, so we were looking for ways to make it more engaging. Our team came up with the idea for InspireAR because we wanted to design a web app that could motivate remote workers be more organized in a fun and interesting way. Augmented reality seemed ... | losing |
## Inspiration:
We were inspired by the inconvenience faced by novice artists creating large murals, who struggle to use reference images for guiding their work. It can also help give confidence to young artists who need a confidence boost and are looking for a simple way to replicate references.
## What it does
An ... | ## 💡 Our Mission
Create an intuitive game but tough game that gets its players to challenge their speed & accuracy. We wanted to incorporate an active element to the game so that it can be played guilt free!
## 🧠 What it does
It shows a sequence of scenes before beginning the game, including the menu and instructi... | ## Inspiration'
One of our team members saw two foxes playing outside a small forest. Eager he went closer to record them, but by the time he was there, the foxes were gone. Wishing he could have recorded them or at least gotten a recording from one of the locals, he imagined a digital system in nature. With the help ... | losing |
## Inspiration
There are many scary things in the world ranging from poisonous spiders to horrifying ghosts, but none of these things scare people more than the act of public speaking. Over 75% of humans suffer from a fear of public speaking but what if there was a way to tackle this problem? That's why we created Str... | ## Inspiration
Public speaking is greatly feared by many, yet it is a part of life that most of us have to go through. Despite this, preparing for presentations effectively is *greatly limited*. Practicing with others is good, but that requires someone willing to listen to you for potentially hours. Talking in front o... | ## Inspiration
Public speaking is a critical skill in our lives. The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently is a very crucial, yet difficult skill to hone. For a few of us on the team, having grown up competing in public speaking competitions, we understand too well the challenges that individuals looking ... | winning |
## Motivation
Our motivation was a grand piano that has sat in our project lab at SFU for the past 2 years. The piano was Richard Kwok's grandfathers friend and was being converted into a piano scroll playing piano. We had an excessive amount of piano scrolls that were acting as door stops and we wanted to hear these ... | ## Inspiration
In the theme of sustainability, we noticed that a lot of people don't know what's recyclable. Some people recycle what shouldn't be and many people recycle much less than they could be. We wanted to find a way to improve recycling habits while also incentivizing people to recycle more. Cyke, pronounced ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by our shared love of dance. We knew we wanted to do a hardware hack in the healthcare and accessibility spaces, but we weren't sure of the specifics. While we were talking, we mentioned how we enjoyed dance, and the campus DDR machine was brought up. We decided to incorporate that into... | partial |
## Inspiration
As lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control features are becoming more available in commercial vehicles, we wanted to explore the potential of a dedicated collision avoidance system
## What it does
We've created an adaptive, small-scale collision avoidance system that leverages Apple's AR technolo... | ## Inspiration
As OEMs(Original equipment manufacturers) and consumers keep putting on brighter and brighter lights, this can be blinding for oncoming traffic. Along with the fatigue and difficulty judging distance, it becomes increasingly harder to drive safely at night. Having an extra pair of night vision would be ... | ## Inspiration
We noticed one of the tracks involved creating a better environment for cities through the use of technology, also known as making our cities 'smarter.' We observed in places like Boston & Cambridge, there are many intersections with unsafe areas for pedestrians and drivers. **Furthermore, 50% of all ac... | winning |
## Inspiration
Bill - "Blindness is a major problem today and we hope to have a solution that takes a step in solving this"
George - "I like engineering"
We hope our tool gives nonzero contribution to society.
## What it does
Generates a description of a scene and reads the description for visually impaired people... | ## Inspiration
The idea was to help people who are blind, to be able to discretely gather context during social interactions and general day-to-day activities
## What it does
The glasses take a picture and analyze them using Microsoft, Google, and IBM Watson's Vision Recognition APIs and try to understand what is ha... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output.
## What it does
XTS takes an **X** and... | winning |
## Inspiration
Protogress has been developed to improve the urban planning process. As cities expand, urban planners and engineers need to have accurate data on the areas to be developed or redeveloped. To assist urban planners, Protogress is available to gather various information such as noise pollution, light inten... | ## Inspiration: Home security systems are very expensive and sometimes do not function as intended. Sometimes something simple may happen such as you forgetting the lights on at home or there may be something more drastic such as a large temperature change or even intruder. Our solution aims to be a cheap alert system ... | ## Inspiration
As most of our team became students here at the University of Waterloo, many of us had our first experience living in a shared space with roommates. Without the constant nagging by parents to clean up after ourselves that we found at home and some slightly unorganized roommates, many shared spaces in ou... | losing |
# nwfacts
[](https://github.com/adrianosela/nwfacts/blob/master/LICENSE)
[](https://nwfacts.tech)
The ultimate anti-bias tool for browsing the news.
## Contents
* [Aim and Mo... | ## Inspiration
In a sense, social media has democratized news media itself -- through it, we have all become "news editors" to some degree, shaping what our friends read through our shares, likes, and comments. Is it any wonder, then, that "fake news" has become such a widespread problem? In such partisan times, it is... | ## Inspiration 🤔
The brain, the body's command center, orchestrates every function, but damage to this vital organ in contact sports often goes unnoticed. Studies show that 99% of football players are diagnosed with CTE, 87% of boxers have experienced at least one concussion, and 15-30% of hockey injuries are brain-r... | partial |
# Team
Honeycrisp
# Inspiration
Every year there are dozens of heatstroke accidents that occur, a number of which are defined as vehicular heatstroke accidents. Our aim was to build a device for vehicles to best prevent these scenarios, whether there may be young children or pets left in said vehicles.
# What it do... | ## Inspiration
Coming from South-East Asia, we have seen the devastation that natural disasters can wreck havoc on urban populations
We wanted to create a probe that can assist on-site Search and Rescue team members to detect and respond to nearby survivors
## What it does
Each Dandelyon probe detects changes in it... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by carbon trading mechanism among nations proposed by Kyoto Protocol treaty in the response to the threat of climate change, and a bunch of cute gas sensors provided by MLH hardware lab, we want to build a similar mechanism among people to monetize our daily carbon emission rights, especially t... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration stems from a fundamental realization about the critical role food plays in our daily lives. We've observed a disparity, especially in the United States, where the quality and origins of food are often overshadowed, leading to concerns about the overall health impact on consumers.
Severa... | ## Inspiration
The counterfeiting industry is anticipated to grow to $2.8 trillion in 2022 costing 5.4 million jobs. These counterfeiting operations push real producers to bankruptcy as cheaper knockoffs with unknown origins flood the market. In order to solve this issue we developed a blockchain powered service with ... | ## Inspiration
In Canada, $31 billion worth of food ends up in the landfills every year. This comes from excess waste produced by unwanted ugly produce, restaurants overcooking etc. As a team we are concerned about the environment and the role we have to play in shaping a healthy future. While technology often has adv... | partial |
## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
The need for faster and more reliable emergency communication in remote areas inspired the creation of FRED (Fire & Rescue Emergency Dispatch). Whether due to natural disasters, accidents in isolated locations, or a lack of cellular network coverage, emergencies in remote areas often result in delayed r... | *Inspiration*
One of the most important roles in our current society is the one taken by the varying first responders who ensure the safety of the public through many different means. Innovation which could help these first responders would always be favourable for society as it would follow from this innovation that ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Save plate is an app that focuses on narrowing the equity differences in society.It is made with the passion to solve the SDG goals such as zero hunger, Improving life on land, sustainable cities and communities and responsible consumption and production.
## What it does
It helps give a platform to fo... | ## Inspiration Behind Plate-O 🍽️
The inspiration for Plate-O comes from the intersection of convenience, financial responsibility, and the joy of discovering new meals. We all love ordering takeout, but there’s often that nagging question: “Can I really afford to order out again?” For many, budgeting around food choi... | ## Inspiration
Reducing North American food waste.
## What it does
Food for All offers a platform granting the ability for food pantries and restaurants to connect. With a very intuitive interface, pantries and restaurants are able to register their organizations to request or offer food. Restaurants can estimate th... | partial |
## Inspiration
When I was 10, I played a text-adventure game related to simply traversing the world. It was small, there was no GUI, but even then, outside of Minecraft, it was one of the few games who captured my interest because of it's wide field and untapped ability for exploration. Recently I wanted to revisit th... | ## Inspiration
As a video game lover and someone that's been working with Gen AI and LLMs for a while, I really wanted to see what combining both in complex and creative ways could lead to. I truly believe that not too far in the future we'll be able to explore worlds in RPGs where the non-playable-characters feel imm... | ## Inspiration
Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su... | losing |
## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | ## Inspiration
Given that students are struggling to make friends online, we came up with an idea to make this easier. Our web application combines the experience of a video conferencing app with a social media platform.
## What it does
Our web app targets primarily students attending college lectures. We wanted to ... | winning |
## What it does
From Here to There (FHTT) is an app that shows users their options for travel and allows them to make informed decisions about their form of transportation. The app shows statistics about different methods of transportation, including calories burned, CO2 emitted and estimated gas prices. See a route y... | ## Inspiration
Many of us tech enthusiasts have always been interested in owning an electric vehicle, however in my case like in India you can go 100s of miles without seeing a single charging point once you leave the big cities. In my case my dad was not ready to buy an electric car as its not even possible to travel... | ## Inspiration
As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe... | losing |
## Inspiration
Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti... | ## Inspiration
After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ... | ## Inspiration
Each living in a relatively suburban area, we are often quite confused when walking through larger cities. We can each associate with the frustration of not being able to find what seems to be even the simplest of things: a restroom nearby or a parking space we have been driving around endlessly to find... | winning |
## Inspiration
We are all a fan of Carrot, the app that rewards you for walking around. This gamification and point system of Carrot really contributed to its success. Carrot targeted the sedentary and unhealthy lives we were leading and tried to fix that. So why can't we fix our habit of polluting and creating greenh... | ## Inspiration 🌱
Climate change is affecting every region on earth. The changes are widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The UN states that we are at a pivotal moment and the urgency to protect our Earth is at an all-time high. We wanted to harness the power of social media for a greater purpose: promoting sustainabi... | ## Inspiration
The majority of cleaning products in the United States contain harmful chemicals. Although many products pass EPA regulations, it is well known that many products still contain chemicals that can cause rashes, asthma, allergic reactions, and even cancer. It is important that the public has easy access t... | winning |
During the COVID-19 pandemic, time spent at home, time spent not exercising, and time spent alone has been at an all time high. This is why, we decided to introduce FITNER to the other fitness nerds like ourselves who struggle to find others to participate in exercise with. As we all know that it is easier to stay heal... | ## Inspiration
Fashion has always been a world that seemed far away from tech. We want to bridge this gap with "StyleList", which understands your fashion within a few swipes and makes personalized suggestions for your daily outfits. When you and I visit the Nordstorm website, we see the exact same product page. But w... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for FitBot came from the desire to help individuals improve their workout routines and achieve better fitness results. Many people struggle with maintaining proper form during exercises, which can lead to injuries and less effective workouts. FitBot aims to provide personalized feedback ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Inspired by personal experience of commonly getting separated in groups and knowing how inconvenient and sometimes dangerous it can be, we aimed to create an application that kept people together. We were inspired by how interlinked and connected we are today by our devices and sought to address social ... | # Catch! (Around the World)
## Our Inspiration
Catch has to be one of our most favourite childhood games. Something about just throwing and receiving a ball does wonders for your serotonin. Since all of our team members have relatives throughout the entire world, we thought it'd be nice to play catch with those relat... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to try some new tech. Gain more experience. Learn as much as we could for our first hackathon.
Pebble seemed like the way to go.
We wanted to build an app for the Pebble smartwatch that takes advantage of its fitness capabilities. We also know that we are way more likely to commit (a follow th... | partial |
## Inspiration / What it does
Typical metrics designed to determine financial responsibility are antiquated. They rely on big credit companies and existing financial history. Voquality tries to level the playing field by allowing users to opt-in to use machine learning and language analysis to develop a profile measur... | ## Inspiration
As a group of passionate millennials, we look to support companies that align with our personal values. In addition, we have investment ideas that we get from interactions in our everyday lives. Building a portfolio of socially responsible companies that includes these ideas and testing those ideas, is ... | ## Inspiration
Frustrating and intimidating banking experience leads to loss of customers and we wanted to change that making banking fun and entertaining. Specifically, senior citizens find it harder to navigate online bank profiles and know their financial status. We decided to come up with an android app that lets ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We've always wanted to be able to point our phone at an object and know what that object is in another language. So we built that app.
## What it does
Point your phone's camera towards an object, and it will identify that object for you, using the Inception neural network. We translate the object from... | ## Inspiration
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic ruined most of our social lives. ARoom presents an opportunity to boost your morale by supporting you to converse with your immediate neighbors and strangers in a COVID safe environment.
## What it does
Our app is designed to help you bring your video chat exp... | ## Inspiration
Languages are hard to learn and pronunciation is often especially difficult, which all of us had experienced first-hand. We decided to create a real-time augmented reality language learning game called Ceci ("this" in French, pronounced as say-see).
## What it does
Ceci quizzes the user on the vocabul... | partial |
## Inspiration
Have you ever crammed for an exam the night before?
Of course you have. So have we.
This application was inspired by the caffeine-filled all nighters we've pulled throughout our years in University. Katchup is an application to help you... well, catch up! Use Katchup to speed through lectures and only w... | ## Inspiration
Lectures all around the world last on average 100.68 minutes. That number goes all the way up to 216.86 minutes for art students. As students in engineering, we spend roughly 480 hours a day listening to lectures. Add an additional 480 minutes for homework (we're told to study an hour for every hour in ... | # Highlights
A product of [YHack '16](http://www.yhack.org/). Built by Aaron Vontell, Ali Benlalah & Cooper Pellaton.
## Table of Contents
* [Overview](#overview)
* [Machine Learning and More](#machine-learning-and-more)
* [Our Infrastructure](#our-infrastructure)
* [API](#api)
## Overview
The first thing you're p... | partial |
## Inspiration
One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi... | ## Inspiration
In large lectures, students often have difficulty making friends and forming study groups due to the social anxieties attached to reaching out for help. Collaboration reinforces and heightens learning, so we sought to encourage students to work together and learn from each other.
## What it does
Study... | ## Inspiration
It can be tough coming up with a unique recipe each and every week. Sometimes there are good deals for specific items (especially for university students) and determining what to cook with those ingredients may not be known. *Rad Kitchen says goodbye to last-minute trips to the grocery store and hello t... | winning |
## Inspiration
Imagine you're sitting in your favorite coffee shop and a unicorn startup idea pops into your head. You open your laptop and choose from a myriad selection of productivity tools to jot your idea down. It’s so fresh in your brain, you don’t want to waste any time so, fervently you type, thinking of your ... | ## What it does
Paste in a text and it will identify the key scenes before turning it into a narrated movie. Favourite book, historical battle, or rant about work. Anything and everything, if you can read it, Lucid.ai can dream it.
## How we built it
Once you hit generate on the home UI, our frontend sends your text... | ## Inspiration
In the fast-paced world of networking and professional growth, connecting with students, peers, mentors, and like-minded individuals is essential. However, the need to manually jot down notes in Excel or the risk of missing out on valuable follow-up opportunities can be a real hindrance.
## What it doe... | winning |
## **What is Cointree?**
Cointree is a platform where users get paid to go green.
Because living more sustainably shouldn't be more expensive. In fact, we should be rewarded for living sustainably – and that's exactly what Cointree does.
Cointree connects companies looking to offset carbon emissions with users looki... | ## Inspiration
As someone who has always wanted to speak in ASL (American Sign Language), I have always struggled with practicing my gestures, as I, unfortunately, don't know any ASL speakers to try and have a conversation with. Learning ASL is an amazing way to foster an inclusive community, for those who are hearing... | ## Inspiration
We saw how messy bulletin boards looked with many event advertisements pasted all over. We thought they ruined building aesthetics. More seriously, because each event poster is usually printed many copies for display on multiple bulletin boards, and because the bulletin boards have to be updated often, ... | winning |
## Inspiration
The amount of data in the world today is mind-boggling. We are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day at our current pace, but the pace is only accelerating with the growth of IoT.
We felt that the world was missing a smart find-feature for videos. To unlock heaps of important data from vid... | 💡
## Inspiration
49 percent of women reported feeling unsafe walking alone after nightfall according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In light of recent sexual assault and harassment incidents in the London, Ontario and Western community, women now feel unsafe travelling alone more than ever.
Light My W... | ## Inspiration
Seeing the large homeless population in Los Angeles inspired us to find a better, easier, and more effective way to help our homeless neighbors.
## What it does
Direct deposit of money to homeless neighbor's Samaritan card, which can be used to purchase food, toiletries, etc.
## How I built it
## Ch... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project was a group-wide understanding that trying to scroll through a feed while your hands are dirty or in use is near impossible. We wanted to create a computer program to allow us to scroll through windows without coming into contact with the computer, for eating, chores, or... | # 🍅 NutriSnap
### NutriSnap is an intuitive nutrition tracker that seamlessly integrates into your daily life.
## Inspiration
Every time you go to a restaurant, its highly likely that you see someone taking a picture of their food before they eat it. We wanted to create a seamless way for people to keep track of th... | # 🎉 CoffeeStarter: Your Personal Networking Agent 🚀
Names: Sutharsika Kumar, Aarav Jindal, Tanush Changani & Pranjay Kumar
Welcome to **CoffeeStarter**, a cutting-edge tool designed to revolutionize personal networking by connecting you with alumni from your school's network effortlessly. Perfect for hackathons and... | winning |
## Inspiration
All our team members enjoy reading as a hobby across numerous genres. Unfortunately, reading comprehension and literacy overall have been declining, which poses a massive problem for future generations. There are countless factors at play here, and we can't solve all of them, but we can definitely work ... | ## Inspiration
Between my friends and I, when there is a task everyone wants to avoid, we play a game to decide quickly. These tasks may include, ordering pizza or calling an uber for the group. The game goes like this, whoever thinks of this game first says "shotty not" and then touches their nose. Everyone else reac... | ## Inspiration
Currently the insurance claims process is quite labour intensive. A person has to investigate the car to approve or deny a claim, and so we aim to make the alleviate this cumbersome process smooth and easy for the policy holders.
## What it does
Quick Quote is a proof-of-concept tool for visually eval... | partial |
## Inspiration
As we walk or drive around our neightborhood or countryside, we can see many signs and flyers that were put out by individual contractor or freelancer that specializes in one or more area of home improvement and repair, such as plumbing, fixing leaky ceiling, installing thermostat and etc. Since we are ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from the annoying amount of times we have had to take out a calculator after a meal with friends and figure out how much to pay each other, make sure we have a common payment method (Venmo, Zelle), and remember if we paid each other back or not a week later. So to answer this questi... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a big data developer on my co-op term I use Terraform to create infrastructure as code (IaC) on Google Cloud Platform. While creating infrastructure, I wanted to have a simple way to see what infra I deployed and to what project.
## What it does
std-terraform is a Slack Bot & Github Infrastructure ... | ## Inspiration
When our team first came together in the days preceding HackHarvard, we agreed that if nothing else, our project would focus on helping society. Hannah told us about the nerve-wracking experience of watching from afar as her loved ones in Tampa prepared for and dealt with hurricanes Helene and Milton. I... | ## Inspiration
As university students, we often find that we have groceries in the fridge but we end up eating out and the groceries end up going bad.
## What It Does
After you buy groceries from supermarkets, you can use our app to take a picture of your receipt. Our app will parse through the items in the receipts... | losing |
## Inspiration
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have been extremely crucial in helping establish important political protests in nations such as Egypt during the Arab Spring, and mesh network based platforms hold importance in countries like China where national censorship prevents open communicatio... | ## Inspiration
While using ridesharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, passengers, particularly those of marginalized identities, have reported feeling unsafe or uncomfortable being alone in a car. From user interviews, every woman has mentioned personal safety as one of their top concerns within a rideshare. About 23% of... | ## What it does
Danstrument lets you video call your friends and create music together using only your actions. You can start a call which generates a code that your friend can use to join.
## How we built it
We used Node.js to create our web app which employs WebRTC to allow video calling between devices. Movements... | partial |
## Inspiration
My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the story of the large and growing problem of stray, homeless, and missing pets, and the ways in which technology could be leveraged to solve it, by raising awareness, adding incentive, and exploiting data.
## What it does
Pet Detective is first and foremost a chat bot, integrated ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for the project was to design a model that could detect fake loan entries hidden amongst a set of real loan entries. Also, our group was eager to design a dashboard to help see these statistics - many similar services are good at identifying outliers in data but are unfriendly to the use... | partial |
# SmartKart
A IoT shopping cart that follows you around combined with a cloud base Point of Sale and Store Management system. Provides a comprehensive solution to eliminate lineups in retail stores, engage with customers without being intrusive and a platform to implement detailed customer analytics.
Featured by nwHa... | ## Inspiration
After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from a mix of previous experience with computer vision and recognizing how it can enhance the shopping experience and services. Understanding that sometimes customers may find it difficult to locate an employee, we decided to let customers notify employees by simply raising their ha... | winning |
## Inspiration
One of our team members was stunned by the number of colleagues who became self-described "shopaholics" during the pandemic. Understanding their wishes to return to normal spending habits, we thought of a helper extension to keep them on the right track.
## What it does
Stop impulse shopping at its co... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases.
We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to find ways to make e-commerce more convenient, as well as helping e-commerce merchants gain customers. After a bit of research, we discovered that one of the most important factors that consumers value is sustainability. According to FlowBox, 65% of consumers said that they would purchase pr... | winning |
## Inspiration
It's easy to zone off in online meetings/lectures, and it's difficult to rewind without losing focus at the moment. It could also be disrespectful to others if you expose the fact that you weren't paying attention. Wouldn't it be nice if we can just quickly skim through a list of keywords to immediately... | ## Inspiration
Blip emerged from a simple observation: in our fast-paced world, long-form content often goes unheard. Inspired by the success of short-form video platforms like Tiktok, we set out to revolutionize the audio space.
## What it does
Our vision is to create a platform where bite-sized audio clips could d... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for the project was Covid-19. As we all know, because of the pandemic we remained seperate from our beloved sports and activities and even now, we are still having difficulties finding people around us to gather around for a sports event. This app has been designed to overcome that situa... | winning |
## Inspiration
We recognized that many individuals are keen on embracing journaling as a habit, but hurdles like the "all or nothing" mindset often hinder their progress. The pressure to write extensively or perfectly every time can be overwhelming, deterring potential journalers. Consistency poses another challenge, ... | # BananaExpress
A self-writing journal of your life, with superpowers!
We make journaling easier and more engaging than ever before by leveraging **home-grown, cutting edge, CNN + LSTM** models to do **novel text generation** to prompt our users to practice active reflection by journaling!
Features:
* User photo --... | ## Inspiration
We met at the event - on the spot. We are a diverse team, from different parts of the world and different ages, with up to 7 years of difference! We believe that there is an important evolution towards using data technology to make investment decisions & data applications to move to designing new financ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by the need to provide patients with a reliable tool that can simplify the process of online diagnosis. Too often, when we Google our symptoms, we're met with exaggerated results that make it seem like we’re facing life-threatening conditions. Our web app combines AI with real time data... | ## Inspiration
We've all left a doctor's office feeling more confused than when we arrived. This common experience highlights a critical issue: over 80% of Americans say access to their complete health records is crucial, yet 63% lack their medical history and vaccination records since birth. Recognizing this gap, we ... | ## Inspiration
The intricate nature of diagnosing and treating diseases, combined with the burdensome process of managing patient data, drove us to develop a solution that harnesses the power of AI. Our goal was to simplify and expedite healthcare decision-making while maintaining the highest standards of patient priv... | losing |
## Inspiration
Have you ever been frustrated looking for a grocery item, only realizing after that you passed by it multiple times? Ever wish you could receive store guidance without stepping out of your social bubble?
We are introducing **Aisle Atlas**! An interactive, computer vision companion residing right on top... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was to help out our fellow friends who were often too scared/embarrassed to ask store employees for help regarding locating products within grocery stores. While online stores tended to thrive during COVID-19, many traditional retail stores struggled to make it through; ... | ## Inspiration
Food is a basic human need. As someone who often finds themselves wandering the aisles of Target, I know firsthand how easy it is to get lost among the countless products and displays. The experience can quickly become overwhelming, leading to forgotten items and a less-than-efficient shopping trip. Thi... | losing |
## Inspiration
• Saw a need for mental health service provision in Amazon Alexa
## What it does
• Created Amazon Alexa skill in Node.js to enable Alexa to empathize with and help a user who is feeling low
• Capabilities include: probing user for the cause of low mood, playing soothing music, reciting inspirational ... | ## Inspiration
Therapy is all about creating a trusting relationship between the clients and their therapist. Building rapport, or trust, is the main job of a therapist, especially at the beginning. But in the current practices, therapists have to take notes throughout the session to keep track of their clients. This ... | # Moodify
Ever wanted to let your emotion dictate the songs you listen to? Well, Moodify's got you! Based on five common emotions, Moodify's brings up a list of recommended Spotify songs for you to listen away!
## Inspiration
As music lovers, we always choose songs based on how we feel. If we're happy, we might go f... | partial |
**Made by Ella Smith (ella#4637) & Akram Hannoufa (ak\_hannou#7596) -- Team #15**
*Domain: <https://www.birtha.online/>*
## Inspiration
Conversations with friends and family about the difficulty of finding the right birth control pill on the first try.
## What it does
Determines the brand of hormonal contraceptive... | ## Inspiration
Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration is based on hearing from industry colleagues that they often need to do research to keep up with the new research occurring in their domain. Research materials are often spread across multiple different sites and require users to actively search through information.
## What it does
We ... | winning |
## Inspiration
The world is constantly chasing after smartphones with bigger screens and smaller bezels. But why wait for costly display technology, and why get rid of old phones that work just fine? We wanted to build an app to create the effect of the big screen using the power of multiple small screens.
## What it... | ## Check it out on GitHub!
The machine learning and web app segments are split into 2 different branches. Make sure to switch to these branches to see the source code! You can view the repository [here](https://github.com/SuddenlyBananas/be-right-back/).
## Inspiration
Inspired in part by the Black Mirror episode of... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our idea was inspired by Duolingo. We noticed that the main component that the platform was missing was a tool for practicing your conversation skills. Upon learning about AssemblyAI's Speech-to-Text API, we decided that it might be possible to realize this idea ourselves.
## What it does
GrammarParro... | ## Inspiration
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuOxQzDN3Y>
Robbie's story stuck out to me at the endless limitations of technology. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy which prevented him from having full control of his arms and legs. He was gifted with a Google home that crafted his home into a voice controlle... | ## Inspiration
Studying and working are completely different. But, one common thing between experiencing a study term and an internship that we noticed was that sometimes we wanted to have someone to talk to. But, evidently that's sometimes impossible, so given that we wanted to explore a little bit with AI and our dr... | winning |
## Inspiration
The need for faster and more reliable emergency communication in remote areas inspired the creation of FRED (Fire & Rescue Emergency Dispatch). Whether due to natural disasters, accidents in isolated locations, or a lack of cellular network coverage, emergencies in remote areas often result in delayed r... | **In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.**
## Inspiration
Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make an impact on the community through this Makeathon. Many disasters can lead to large and avoidable losses of lives and resources because of the delay in notifying the rescue teams. Some disasters even go unnoticed because of personal and political reasons. Thus, we decided to come up wi... | winning |
## Inspiration
School buses are an integral part of education systems around the world. Parents expect that their children will be picked up or dropped off at the bus stop everyday without any harm or danger to their child. This unfortunately, is not always the case. Everyday many young school children are left behind... | ## Inspiration
Public transportation is a necessity to society. However, with the rapid spread of COVID-19 through crowded areas, especially in lines like city metros and busses, public transportation and travel have taken a massive hit. In fact, since the beginning of the pandemic, it is estimated that usage of publi... | ## Inspiration
After years of taking the STM (one of the many possible implementations that could make use of RailVision) and having one too many experiences of waiting in the freezing weather for a bus that would never come, the problem proposed by the RailVision challenge was one that was close to our hearts. Having... | losing |
Inspiration
We decided to try the Best Civic Hack challenge with YHack & Yale Code4Good -- the collaboration with the New Haven/León Sister City Project. The purpose of this project is to both fundraise money, and raise awareness about the impact of greenhouse gases through technology.
What it does
The Carbon Fund B... | ## Inspiration
University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,... | 
## Inspiration
It's September 8th 2017 and Hurricane Irma is twisting her way towards Florida. Like 95% of home-owning Floridians, you have a home insurance plan. But, like most others, you don't have full flood or natural disaster cov... | partial |
# QThrive
Web-based chatbot to facilitate journalling and self-care. Built for QHacks 2017 @ Queen's University. | ## Inspiration
As University of Waterloo students who are constantly moving in and out of many locations, as well as constantly changing roommates, there are many times when we discovered friction or difficulty in communicating with each other to get stuff done around the house.
## What it does
Our platform allows r... | ## Inspiration
Mental Health is a really common problem amongst humans and university students in general. I myself felt I was dealing with mental issues a couple years back and I found it quite difficult to reach out for help as it would make myself look weak to others. I recovered from my illness when I actually got... | winning |
This code allows the user to take photos of animals, and the app determines whether the photos are pleasing enough for people to see the cuteness of the animals. | ## Inspiration
One of our own member's worry about his puppy inspired us to create this project, so he could keep an eye on him.
## What it does
Our app essentially monitors your dog(s) and determines their mood/emotional state based on their sound and body language, and optionally notifies the owner about any chang... | # tokenizedHousing
**Building Housing Tokens to Create a Real Time Stock Market for Real Estate**
Real Estate is an industry stuck in the past. Despite the enormous demand for residential real estate investing, we still live under conditions where if you want to invest, you have to be very rich. Consequently, the wor... | winning |
## Inspiration
In response to recent tragic events in Turkey, where the rescue efforts for the Earthquake have been very difficult. We decided to use Qualcomm’s hardware development kit to create an application for survivors of natural disasters like earthquakes to send out distress signals to local authorities.
## W... | ## Inspiration
In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine... | ## Inspiration
With the numerous natural disasters over the past few years, we feel it is extremely important to people to be informed and prepared to face such events. We provide people who lack the resources to stay safe and comfortable with the option to efficiently request such items from others. Danger is inevita... | winning |
## Inspiration
Using “nutrition” as a keyword in the Otsuka valuenex visualization tool, we found that there is a cluster of companies creating personalized nutrition and fitness plans. But when we used the “and” function to try to find intersections with mental wellness, we found that none of those companies that off... | ## Inspiration
In the work from home era, many are missing the social aspect of in-person work. And what time of the workday most provided that social interaction? The lunch break. culina aims to bring back the social aspect to work from home lunches. Furthermore, it helps users reduce their food waste by encouraging ... | ## Inspiration
Among our group, we noticed we all know at least one person, who despite seeking medical and nutritional support, suffers from some unidentified food allergy. Seeing people struggle to maintain a healthy diet while "dancing" around foods that they are unsure if they should eat inspired us to do somethin... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our team wanted to build an application with social impact. We believe that change starts within a community, therefore, we brainstormed ways that people can make a change within the local community. We realized that homelessness and food insecurity is a large issue within the Hamilton community, and we... | ## Inspiration
I was cooking at home one day and I kept noticing we had half a carrot, half an onion, and like a quarter of a pound of ground pork lying around all the time. More often than not it was from me cooking a fun dish that my mother have to somehow clean up over the week. So I wanted to create an app that wo... | ## Inspiration
With billions of tons of food waste occurring in Canada every year. We knew that there needs to exist a cost-effective way to reduce food waste that can empower restaurant owners to make more eco-conscious decisions while also incentivizing consumers to choose more environmentally-friendly food options.... | losing |
## Inspiration
In a world where people are continually faced with complicated decisions, our team wanted to see if the latest AI models would be capable of navigating complex social and moral landscapes of the modern day. This inspired our central focus for this project: exploring the intersection of AI and ethical de... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration stems from the prevalent issue of individuals enduring discrimination and mistreatment based on race, gender, sex, disability and are often unaware of their rights in such situations. They often struggle to find reliable sources of information or guidance on their rights and avenues for ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o... | ## Inspiration
Vision—our most dominant sense—plays a critical role in every faucet and stage in our lives. Over 40 million people worldwide (and increasing) struggle with blindness and 20% of those over 85 experience permanent vision loss. In a world catered to the visually-abled, developing assistive technologies to... | # Click through our slideshow for a neat overview!!
# Check out our demo [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWJAuR7EVY)
## The future of computing 🍎 👓 ⚙️ 🤖 🍳 👩🍳
How could Mixed Reality, Spatial Computing, and Generative AI transform our lives?
And what happens when you combine Vision Pro and AI? (spoile... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by our lack of decision making when it comes to choosing a place to eat.
## What it does
Our website random generates a restaurant based on the distance from the user and reviews.
## How we built it
We used react, css, html, and js.
## Challenges we ran into
We were unable to conn... | ## Inspiration
As humans, it is impossible to always be in perfect shape, health, and condition. This includes our mental health and wellbeing. To tackle this problem, we created a website that encourages users to complete simple tasks that have been proven to improve mood, drive, and wellbeing. These tasks include jo... | ## Inspiration
Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo... | losing |
## Inspiration & Instructions
We wanted to somehow guilt people into realizing the state of their bank accounts by showing them progressive picture reminders as their wallpaper. Hopefully, the people who use our app will want to save more and also maybe increase their earnings by investing in stocks, SPROUTING persona... | ## Inspiration
As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone... | ## Inspiration
As fans of films and being part of the generation that grew up with much of its video entertainment deriving from the internet, we were always drawn to video as a medium for personal expression. That being said, the industry has been hit with copious amounts of criticisms lately.
While the public is cur... | winning |
## Inspiration
There should be an effective way to evaluate company value by examining the individual values of those that make up the company.
## What it does
Simplifies the research process of examining a company by showing it in a dynamic web design that is free-flowing and easy to follow.
## How we built it
It... | ## Inspiration
In the exciting world of hackathons, where innovation meets determination, **participants like ourselves often ask "Has my idea been done before?"** While originality is the cornerstone of innovation, there's a broader horizon to explore - the evolution of an existing concept. Through our AI-driven plat... | ## Inspiration
Data analytics can be **extremely** time-consuming. We strove to create a tool utilizing modern AI technology to generate analysis such as trend recognition on user-uploaded datasets.The inspiration behind our product stemmed from the growing complexity and volume of data in today's digital age. As busi... | winning |
## Inspiration
Are you a student? Have you experienced the struggle of trawling through rooms on campus to find a nice, quiet space to study? Well, worry no more because Study Space aims to create an intelligent solution to this decade old problem!
## What it does
Study Space is an app that keeps track of the number... | ## Inspiration
Being frugal students, we all wanted to create an app that would tell us what kind of food we could find around us based on a budget that we set. And so that’s exactly what we made!
## What it does
You give us a price that you want to spend and the radius that you are willing to walk or drive to a res... | ## Inspiration
Research has shown us that new hires, women and under-represented minorities in the workplace could feel intimidated or uncomfortable in team meetings. Since the start of remote work, new hires lack the in real life connections, are unable to take a pulse of the group and are fearful to speak what’s on ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Bipolar is a mental health condition that affects %1 of the population in Canada which amount to 3.7 million people. One in eight adults will show symptoms of a mood disorder. My father was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and refused medication on the basis that he didn't feel himself. A standard medica... | ## Care Me
**Overworked nurses are linked with a 40 percent of risk of death in patients**
Our solution automates menial tasks like serving food and water, so medical professionals can focus on the important human-necessary interactions. It uses a robotic delivery system which acts autonomously based on voice recogni... | ## Inspiration
For this hackathon, we wanted to build something that could have a positive impact on its users. We've all been to university ourselves, and we understood the toll, stress took on our minds. Demand for mental health services among youth across universities has increased dramatically in recent years. A R... | partial |
## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to watch videos together as a social activity during the pandemic but were unable as many platforms were hard to use or unstable. Therefore our team decided to create a platform that met our needs in terms of usability and functionality.
## What it does
Bubbles allow people to create viewing... | ## Inspiration
It's my strong belief that education is a right to everyone, this software aims to make it easier, and more enjoyable for people to get involved and truly learn from school. That's what drove me to build this software as a web application, because the web can be accessed by any device (even a fridge), s... | winning |
# F.A.C.E. (FACE Analytics with Comp-vision Engineering)
## Idea
Using computer vision to provide business analytics on customers in brick and mortar stores
## Features
* number of customers over time period
* general customer demographics, such as age, and gender
* ability to see quantity of returning customers
* ... | ## Inspiration
We were heavily focused on the machine learning aspect and realized that we lacked any datasets which could be used to train a model. So we tried to figure out what kind of activity which might impact insurance rates that we could also collect data for right from the equipment which we had.
## What it ... | ## Inspiration
We live in a society where data is extremely important. Technology all around us is constantly collecting it and it's generally being used to improve all our lives. Data allows us to make objectively better decisions guided by information. One relatively new way to gather data is through eye-tracking. E... | winning |
## Inspiration
Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver... | ## Inspiration
While caught in the the excitement of coming up with project ideas, we found ourselves forgetting to follow up on action items brought up in the discussion. We felt that it would come in handy to have our own virtual meeting assistant to keep track of our ideas. We moved on to integrate features like au... | ## Inspiration
For many college students, finding time to socialize and make new friends is hard. Everyone's schedule seems perpetually busy, and arranging a dinner chat with someone you know can be a hard and unrewarding task. At the same time, however, having dinner alone is definitely not a rare thing. We've probab... | winning |
## Inspiration 💡
The push behind EcoCart is the pressing call to weave sustainability into our everyday actions. I've envisioned a tool that makes it easy for people to opt for green choices when shopping.
## What it does 📑
EcoCart is your AI-guided Sustainable Shopping Assistant, designed to help shoppers minimiz... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for Green Cart is to support local farmers by connecting them directly to consumers for fresh and nutritious produce. The goal is to promote community support for farmers and encourage people to eat fresh and locally sourced food.
## What it does
GreenCart is a webapp that connects loc... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members was stunned by the number of colleagues who became self-described "shopaholics" during the pandemic. Understanding their wishes to return to normal spending habits, we thought of a helper extension to keep them on the right track.
## What it does
Stop impulse shopping at its co... | partial |
Check out our project at <http://gitcured.com/>
## Inspiration
* We chose the Treehacks Health challenge about creating a crowdsourced question platform for sparking conversations between patients and physicians in order to increase understanding of medical conditions.
* We really wanted to build a platform that did ... | ## Inspiration
Clicking cats are fun
## Controls
`right-click` to switch colors
`left-click` to shoot a cat
## Gameplay
You can only shoot down cats with the same color as your current color
## Future Improvements
* Add streaks, combos, multipliers
* Add loading screen, pause screen, game over screen
* Leaderboa... | ### 💡 Inspiration 💡
We call them heroes, **but the support we give them is equal to the one of a slave.**
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of medics have to keep track of their patient's history, symptoms, and possible diseases. However, we've talked with a lot of medics, and almost all of them share the same... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to create something like HackerTyper where you can fake being a hacker. Instead, we created *Harmony Hacker*, such that you can fake being a professional piano player with confidence.
## What it does
The piano keyboard in our project plays the notes of the MIDI song you select through its sp... | ## Inspiration
The best hacks are unexpected combinations of technology that are just plain fun, so we got our inspiration from that vibe. The original idea: A VR app. Then someone on the team suggested adding a piano keyboard and the rest followed from there.
## What it does
In the VR scene, a digital piano is mapp... | ## Bringing your music to life, not just to your ears but to your eyes 🎶
## Inspiration 🍐
Composing music through scribbling notes or drag-and-dropping from MuseScore couldn't be more tedious. As pianists ourselves, we know the struggle of trying to bring our impromptu improvisation sessions to life without forgett... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by the everyday challenges patients face, from remembering to take their medication to feeling isolated in their health journey. We saw the need for a solution that could do more than just manage symptoms—it needed to support patients emotionally, help prevent medication mistake... | ## Inspiration
About 4 months ago, I and Shubham came to know that one of our closest friends has been diagnosed with clinical depression. Having spent the majority of our time together, it never really struck us that the guy we loved hanging around with needed some emotional support throughout this time. That's when ... | ## Inspiration
Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke... | losing |
## 💡 Inspiration
Echo was inspired by the traditional methods of storing contacts and memories: the rolodex and the photo album. The UI draws on some of these nostalgic details, like the polaroid-like image cards and the rotating contact card wheel.
## 🕸️ What it does
Take a stroll down memory lane with Echo, your... | ## Inspiration
As many of us grow older, we have more and more memories we all want to cherish and relive again. Sometimes, its that random photo from the past your phone brings up tha fills you up with nostalgia from the past. Why not find an immersive way to relive that experience all over again using today's tech.
... | ## Inspiration
2 days before flying to Hack the North, Darryl forgot his keys and spent the better part of an afternoon retracing his steps to find it- But what if there was a personal assistant that remembered everything for you? Memories should be made easier with the technologies we have today.
## What it does
A ... | losing |
# Ascriber
Crawl your website for uncredited images and get warned about them.
Asciber will help you find unattributed images, their original attribution, and alternative, similar creative-commons licensed photos if necessary.
## APIs & Tech Used
* Google App Engine
* Google ML Cloud Vision API
* Google ML Cloud Na... | ## What's the problem?
Nowadays, it seems that fans expect to pay many multiples above face value to see their favourite artists perform. The average consumer simply cannot compete with sophisticated scalpers looking to make an easy profit. Popular concerts sell out in seconds, only to have the tickets immediately pos... | ## Inspiration
The amount of data in the world today is mind-boggling. We are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day at our current pace, but the pace is only accelerating with the growth of IoT.
We felt that the world was missing a smart find-feature for videos. To unlock heaps of important data from vid... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to take it easier this hackathon and do a "fun" hack.
## What it does
The user can search for a song in the Spotify library, and Music in Motion will make a music video based off of the lyrics of the song.
## How we built it
Music in Motion first searches for the song in the Spotify librar... | ## Inspiration
As students who listen to music to help with our productivity, we wanted to not only create a music sharing application but also a website to allow others to discover new music, all through where they are located. We were inspired by Pokemon-Go but wanted to create a similar implementation with music fo... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind GenAI stems from a deep empathy for those struggling with emotional challenges. Witnessing the power of technology to foster connections, we envisioned an AI companion capable of providing genuine emotional support.
## What it does
GenAI is your compassionate emotional therapy A... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the growing need for accessible mental health resources and how AI can provide real-time, personalized support. As Stanford students immersed in a stressful college environment, we realized many people young and old face barriers to traditional therapy, such as time, cost, and availa... | View the SlideDeck for this project at: [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G1M9v0Vk2-tAhulnirHIsoivKq3WK7E2tx3RZW12Zas/edit?usp=sharing)
## Inspiration / Why
It is no surprise that mental health has been a prevailing issue in modern society. 16.2 million adults in the US and 300 million people in the wo... | losing |
## Inspiration
An abundance of qualified applicants lose their chance to secure their dream job simply because they are unable to effectively present their knowledge and skills when it comes to the interview. The transformation of interviews into the virtual format due to the Covid-19 pandemic has created many challen... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired to build Loki to illustrate the plausibility of social media platforms tracking user emotions to manipulate the content (and advertisements) that they view.
## What it does
Loki presents a news feed to the user much like other popular social networking apps. However, in the background... | ## Inspiration
In the hectic moments before a job interview, users may experience a flurry of emotions, from nervousness to self-doubt, as they grapple with the pressure to perform well and make a positive impression on the interviewer. Our inspiration for Ai&U stemmed from our collective experiences with interviews a... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our team firmly believes that one of the best ways to connect with others is through acts of service. Coming out of the pandemic, volunteers will be crucial to supporting those hit the hardest. Although many people often want to volunteer in their communities, their schedules are too variable to commit ... | ## The beginning
We had always been fascinated by the incredibly varied talents that people could use for good. Serena had worked at a nonprofit, and witnessed firsthand how the volunteers that they found were eager to contribute their skills and knowledge for the cause. There was a glaring problem, though: not enough... | ## Inspiration
Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p... | losing |
## What's next for [derma relief]: [Our Plan](https://youtu.be/DzFbTgcMm5g?t=62)
Check out our [GitHub](https://github.com/dynamicduho/reliefAR) [Figma](https://www.figma.com/proto/zxUyENXGh54EeSksJvDBzg/HTV-App-Prototype?node-id=154%3A2835&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=154%3A2835)
## Inspirat... | **Made by Ella Smith (ella#4637) & Akram Hannoufa (ak\_hannou#7596) -- Team #15**
*Domain: <https://www.birtha.online/>*
## Inspiration
Conversations with friends and family about the difficulty of finding the right birth control pill on the first try.
## What it does
Determines the brand of hormonal contraceptive... | ## Inspiration
*TeeWorlds* (2007), *Super Meat Boy (2010)*, *Terraria* (2011), *BattleBlock Theater* (2013), *Starbound* (2016). At first glance, these 5 titles share very little with each other. They're all video games, they all feature platforming mechanics... Oh, and one more thing: They're all developed with Windo... | winning |
## Inspiration
We recognized that packages left on porch are unsafe and can be easily stolen by passerby and mailmen. Delivery that requires signatures is safer, but since homeowners are not always home, deliveries often fail, causing inconvenience for both homeowners and mailmen.
The act of picking up packages and c... | ## Inspiration
This project was inspired by our curious naïveté in integrating interdisciplinary technologies… and the desperate need to wake up a certain friend incapable of waking up to any traditional alarm. Every Thursday at 5am, everyone but him within a 2 room radius would wake up to his alarm. We were drawn to ... | ## Inspiration
More creators are coming online to create entertaining content for fans across the globe. On platforms like Twitch and YouTube, creators have amassed billions of dollars in revenue thanks to loyal fans who return to be part of the experiences they create.
Most of these experiences feel transactional, h... | partial |
## Inspiration
Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su... | ## Problem Statement
As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025.
The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to take an old classic and turn it into a fun game for all to enjoy. Immediately we thought of all the carnivals we missed out on due to the global pandemic. This pandemic caused us to be in our homes. We wanted to help people remember the fun they had playing these games. Our combined favori... | winning |
## Inspiration for Recyclable
We come across many instances when we don’t know if we can recycle an item and have to look it up on the web intensively to get to a conclusion. Whether it’s an used electrical appliance to a piece of broken furniture, there are ways to recycle these items; all it takes is a little resear... | ## Inspiration
McMaster's SRA presidential debate brought to light the issue of garbage sorting on campus. Many recycling bins were contaminated and were subsequently thrown into a landfill. During the project's development, we became aware of the many applications of this technology, including sorting raw materials, ... | ## Inspiration
As software engineers, we have all known what it's like to start from square one in our learning, especially when it comes to newer technologies constantly being developed around us like artificial intelligence. With concepts such as neural networks and machine learning becoming increasingly intimidatin... | partial |
## Inspiration
Being frugal students, we all wanted to create an app that would tell us what kind of food we could find around us based on a budget that we set. And so that’s exactly what we made!
## What it does
You give us a price that you want to spend and the radius that you are willing to walk or drive to a res... | ## Inspiration
Our good friend's uncle was involved in a nearly-fatal injury. This led to him becoming deaf-blind at a very young age, without many ways to communicate with others. To help people like our friend's uncle, we decided to create HapticSpeak, a communication tool that transcends traditional barriers. As we... | ## Inspiration
The first step of our development process was conducting user interviews with University students within our social circles. When asked of some recently developed pain points, 40% of respondents stated that grocery shopping has become increasingly stressful and difficult with the ongoing COVID-19 pandem... | partial |
## Inspiration
Because of COVID-19, we're experiencing not only a global health crisis but also extreme psychological stress. The isolation and loneliness from social distancing, loss of personal and physical spaces, and not being able to enjoy the outdoors, for which there's growing evidence that nature helps relieve... | ## Inspiration
As university students, we are constantly pressured to prioritize recruiting while also balancing academics, extracurriculars, and well-being. We are expected to spend 10 hours or more on recruiting each week, and much of this time goes to mindlessly copying the same responses over and over again into j... | ## Inspiration
Having previously volunteered and worked with children with cerebral palsy, we were struck with the monotony and inaccessibility of traditional physiotherapy. We came up with a cheaper, more portable, and more engaging way to deliver treatment by creating virtual reality games geared towards 12-15 year ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We got our inspiration from the countless calorie tracking apps. First of all, there isn't a single website we could find that tracked calories. There are a ton of apps, but not one website. Secondly, None of them offered recipes built in. In our website, the user can search for food items, and directly... | ## Inspiration
We love cooking and watching food videos. From the Great British Baking Show to Instagram reels, we are foodies in every way. However, with the 119 billion pounds of food that is wasted annually in the United States, we wanted to create a simple way to reduce waste and try out new recipes.
## What it d... | ## Inspiration
Irresponsible substance use causes fatalities due to accidents and related incidents. Driving under the influence is one of the top 5 leading causes of death in young adults. 37 people die every day from a DUI-related accident--that's one person every 38 minutes. We aspire to build a convenient and acce... | winning |
## Summary
OrganSafe is a revolutionary web application that tackles the growing health & security problem of black marketing of donated organs. The verification of organ recipients leverages the Ethereum Blockchain to provide critical security and prevent improper allocation for such a pivotal resource.
## Inspirati... | ## About the Project
### TLDR:
Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori... | # Ethoken
## Inspiration
We wanted to apply blockchain technologies towards the problems we identified in the banking industry.
## What it does
Ethoken is a mobile first banking platform that **decouples traditional banking services**. This allows users to fully customize their personal banking experience. Core to ... | winning |
## Inspiration
The need for faster and more reliable emergency communication in remote areas inspired the creation of FRED (Fire & Rescue Emergency Dispatch). Whether due to natural disasters, accidents in isolated locations, or a lack of cellular network coverage, emergencies in remote areas often result in delayed r... | As a response to the ongoing wildfires devastating vast areas of Australia, our team developed a web tool which provides wildfire data visualization, prediction, and logistics handling. We had two target audiences in mind: the general public and firefighters. The homepage of Phoenix is publicly accessible and anyone ca... | ## Inspiration
A couple weeks ago, a threat aimed at our university caused us to ponder current safety protocols and what would happen in the event of an emergency. Some students weren't even aware of the threat as they hadn't seen the e-mail. We felt that today's technology could empower us to react better to emergen... | winning |
## Inspiration
University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,... | ## Inspiration
Senior suicides have tripled in the last decade due to the large baby boomer population retiring alone. Loneliness is the biggest problem seniors face that contributes to their mental health. According to an AARP survey, a third of adults over the age of 65 are lonely and highly prone to suicidal though... | ## Inspiration
We got together a team passionate about social impact, and all the ideas we had kept going back to loneliness and isolation. We have all been in high pressure environments where mental health was not prioritized and we wanted to find a supportive and unobtrusive solution. After sharing some personal sto... | partial |
## Inspiration
The members are part of a working/studying community that tends to rely on caffeine to improve their performance and focus. Over the years, this community has been expanding, as the idea of drinking a coffee or energetic drink becomes a trending activity, fostering new types of beverages in the market a... | ## Inspiration:
The inspiration for this project was finding a way to incentivize healthy activity. While the watch shows people data like steps taken and calories burned, that alone doesn't encourage many people to exercise. By making the app, we hope to make exercise into a game that people look forward to doing rat... | # 💥 - How it all started
As students, we always try to optimize everything from our study habits to our sleep schedules. But above all, we agreed that the most important thing to optimize was also the most neglected: health. After a careful look into the current status of health-tracking apps, we noticed a few main p... | partial |
## Inspiration
The other day, I heard my mom, a math tutor, tell her students "I wish you were here so I could give you some chocolate prizes!" We wanted to bring this incentive program back, even among COVID, so that students can have a more engaging learning experience.
## What it does
The student will complete a ... | ## What Inspired us
Due to COVID, many students like us have become accustomed to work on their schoolwork, projects and even hackathons remotely. This led students to use online resources at their disposal in order to facilitate their workload at home. One of the tools most used is “ctrl+f” which enables the user to ... | ## Inspiration
In modern day, **technology is everywhere**. Parents equip their children with devices at a young age, so why not take advantage of this and improve their learning! We want to help children in recognizing objects, and as well as pronouncing them (via text to speech).
## What it does
*NVision* teaches ... | partial |
## Inspiration
As citizens who care deeply about the integrity of information that is being fed to the public, we were troubled by the rampant spread of misinformation and disinformation during (often political) live streams. Our goal is to create a tool that empowers viewers to discern truth from falsehood in **real-... | ## Inspiration
In the current media landscape, control over distribution has become almost as important as the actual creation of content, and that has given Facebook a huge amount of power. The impact that Facebook newsfeed has in the formation of opinions in the real world is so huge that it potentially affected the... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted to make a smart power bar device to tackle the challenge of phantom power consumption. Phantom power is the power consumed by devices when they are plugged in and idle, accounting for approximately 10% of a home’s power consumption. [1] The best solution for this so far has been for user... | partial |
This is a simulation of astronomical bodies interacting gravitationally, forming orbits.
Prize Submission:
Best Design,
Locals Only,
Lost Your Marbles,
Useless Stuff that Nobody Needs,
Best Domain Name Registered With Domain.com
Domain.com:
[Now online!](http://www.spacesim2k18.org)
[Video demo of website](https://... | We created this app in light of the recent wildfires that have raged across the west coast. As California Natives ourselves, we have witnessed the devastating effects of these fires first-hand. Not only do these wildfires pose a danger to those living around the evacuation area, but even for those residing tens to hund... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by seeing videos of AI powered simulations doing cool things, such as parking in a full parking lot: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMp6pq6_QjI>
## What it does
Crashes into walls and drives off the edge of the world
## How I built it
Trial and error
## Challenges I ran into
We ... | winning |
## Inspiration
(<http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mr_robot.jpg>)
If you watch Mr. Robot, then you know that the main character, Elliot, deals with some pretty serious mental health issues. One of his therapeutic techniques is to write his thoughts on a private journal. They're great... they g... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for TRACY came from the desire to enhance tennis training through advanced technology. One of our members was a former tennis enthusiast who has always strived to refine their skills. They soon realized that the post-game analysis process took too much time in their busy schedule. We aim... | ## Inspiration
At the heart of our creation lies a profound belief in the power of genuine connections. Our project was born from the desire to create a safe space for authentic conversations, fostering empathy, understanding, and support. In a fast-paced, rapidly changing world, it is important for individuals to ide... | winning |
## Inspiration
Food is a passion, yet there is no easy way to share this passion. For others, food is a necessity, yet finding good recipes you want to cook has never been harder. Munchify is the social media for promoting the passion of food and cooking, empowering people to grab their forks and knives and dig in!
#... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming, we were thinking about what we have in common as students and what we do often.
We are all students and want to cook at home to save money, but we often find ourselves in a situation where we have tons of ingredients that we cannot properly combine. With that in mind, we came u... | ## Inspiration
Over the course of the past year, one of the most heavily impacted industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic is the service sector. Specifically, COVID-19 has transformed the financial viability of restaurant models. Moving forward, it is projected that 36,000 small restaurants will not survive the winter... | losing |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project was both personal experience and the presentation from Ample Labs during the opening ceremony. Last summer, Ryan was preparing to run a summer computer camp and taking registrations and payment on a website. A mother reached out to ask if we had any discounts available f... | ## Inspiration
Getting your salary today is mundane - there are very limited options, and there's no way to make money from the money you're getting. We're introducing crypto into the world of salary making, allowing each receiver to make money from staking their salary, or donating to charities of their interest with... | ## Inspiration
With our inability to acquire an oculus rift at YHack, we were looking forward to using one in any implementation. As we are entering the job market soon, in search of summer internships, we thought about how many people, students in particular, do not have sufficient interviewing experience. Thus, our ... | partial |
## Realm Inspiration
Our inspiration stemmed from our fascination in the growing fields of AR and virtual worlds, from full-body tracking to 3D-visualization. We were interested in realizing ideas in this space, specifically with sensor detecting movements and seamlessly integrating 3D gestures. We felt that the prime... | Demo: <https://youtu.be/cTh3Q6a2OIM?t=2401>
## Inspiration
Fun Mobile AR Experiences such as Pokemon Go
## What it does
First, a single player hides a virtual penguin somewhere in the room. Then, the app creates hundreds of obstacles for the other players in AR. The player that finds the penguin first wins!
## How... | ## Inspiration
Too often, social media keeps us apart. What if there was a way to share photos online in a way that brings people together? Introducing ourboARd, an AR-based photo sharing app that gets users to gather around a digital board.
## What it does
ourboARd is a digital board that nourishes human connection... | winning |
# My Housing Search Journey: From Frustration to Innovation
As a former student, I personally experienced the frustration and challenges of finding suitable housing near the campus. The scattered information, countless websites, and tedious manual searches made the process daunting. This personal experience inspired m... | ## Inspiration
As students at UC Berkeley, we always look for ways to enhance our studying environment experience. In this pursuit, we find ourselves looking towards libraries as our answers. However, one issue that impedes this pursuit is the lack of open seats in a specific library. UC Berkeley is home to 24 librari... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by a [recent article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-man-heart-stops-toronto-airport-1.5430605) that we saw on the news, where there was a man who suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting for his plane. With the help of a bystander who was able to administer the AED and... | losing |
## Inspiration
For many college students, finding time to socialize and make new friends is hard. Everyone's schedule seems perpetually busy, and arranging a dinner chat with someone you know can be a hard and unrewarding task. At the same time, however, having dinner alone is definitely not a rare thing. We've probab... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever wished you had…another you?
This thought has crossed all of our heads countless times as we find ourselves swamped in too many tasks, unable to keep up in meetings as information flies over our head, or wishing we had the feedback of a third perspective.
Our goal was to build an **autono... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | partial |
## Inspiration
We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution
## What it does
I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members.
By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe... | ## Inspiration
Our project, "**Jarvis**," was born out of a deep-seated desire to empower individuals with visual impairments by providing them with a groundbreaking tool for comprehending and navigating their surroundings. Our aspiration was to bridge the accessibility gap and ensure that blind individuals can fully ... | ## Inspiration
Too often, social media keeps us apart. What if there was a way to share photos online in a way that brings people together? Introducing ourboARd, an AR-based photo sharing app that gets users to gather around a digital board.
## What it does
ourboARd is a digital board that nourishes human connection... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases.
We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne... | ## About Us
Discord Team Channel: #team-64
omridan#1377,
dylan28#7389,
jordanbelinsky#5302,
Turja Chowdhury#6672
Domain.com domain: positivenews.space
## Inspiration
Over the last year headlines across the globe have been overflowing with negative content which clouded over any positive information. In addition ev... | ## Inspiration
The Rasberry Pi 4 is a great cheap device for hacking. It's discrete yet powerful enough to run most hacking tools found on Kali Linux. For this hack, I wanted to test out how Aircrack-ng tools would work on the RPI4.
## What it does
The hack captures a 4-Way Handshake and uses it to initiate a brute ... | winning |
## Inspiration 💡
We love playing games, and one of our childhood memories was going to Arcades. As technology advances, our favourite pastimes have evolved alongside it. This inspired us to create Two-Pac, a retro-gamified photo album and a classic arcade game inspired by Pac-Man that takes its player on an interacti... | ## Inspiration
Pac-Man and Flappy Bird are two of the most famous retro games of the past 100 years. We decided to recreate these games, but with a twist. These games were integral parts of our childhood, and it was great to put our technical skills to use in a project that was both challenging and fun.
## What it do... | ## Inspiration
We all deal with nostalgia. Sometimes we miss our loved ones or places we visited and look back at our pictures. But what if we could revolutionize the way memories are shown? What if we said you can relive your memories and mean it literally?
## What it does
retro.act takes in a user prompt such as "... | losing |
## Inspiration
Students have difficulty to find a public course group chat on social media. Though we have facebook course group, it more seems like a discussion board other than a chat group. And sometimes students lose track of announcements made on MyCourses if they do not log in.
## What it does
A useful website... | ## Inspiration
We wanted something like amazon where you could get personalized suggestions for classes. Think the "items you may be interested in bar."
## What it does
You can sign up for the messenger bot on facebook. Once it's live, it will ask you about your classes and how you rate them. Then you can ask for a ... | ## Inspiration
How long does class attendance take? 3 minutes? With 60 classes, 4 periods a day, and 180 school days in a year, this program will save a cumulative 72 days every year! Our team recognized that the advent of neural networks yields momentous potential, and one such opportunity is face recognition. We uti... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from the famous subreddit r/place.
## What it does
Git-place is an interactive pixel art page on a GitHub repository. Anyone with a GitHub account can create pixel art on our projects README file.
## How we built it
The application was built using JavaScript, node, GitHub action... | +1 902 903 6416 (send 'cmd' to get started)
## Inspiration
We believe in the right of every individual to have access to information, regardless of price or censorship
## What it does
NoNet gives unfettered access to internets most popular service without an internet or data connection. It accomplishes this through... | ## Inspiration
As programming beginners and first time hackathon participants, we wanted to challenge ourselves by building an app and creating a software that recognizes text from an image. Our secondary goal was to create a practical product that solves a common problem. Hence, grocer.io was created.
## What it doe... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were sitting together as a team after dinner when our team member pulled out her phone and mentioned she needed to log her food – mentioning how she found the app she used (MyFitnessPal) to be quite tedious. This was a sentiment shared by many users we've encountered and we decided there must be a wa... | ## Inspiration
One day Saaz was sitting at home thinking about his fitness goals and his diet. Looking in his fridge, he realized that, on days when his fridge was only filled with leftovers and leftover ingredients, it was very difficult for him to figure out what he could make that followed his nutrition goals. This... | ## Inspiration
As a gym freak, it was always a major inconvenience to us that we have to manually enter the nutrition facts for every single meal.
We set out to make the process super simple using machine learning and azure.
## What it does
I automatically detect what food you ate just by looking at it! (using Azur... | partial |
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