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## Why
Type 2 diabetes can be incredibly tough, especially when it leads to complications. I've seen it firsthand with my uncle, who suffers from peripheral neuropathy. Watching him struggle with insensitivity in his feet, having to go to the doctor regularly for new insoles just to manage the pain and prevent further... | ## Inspiration
The three of us love lifting at the gym. We always see apps that track cardio fitness but haven't found anything that tracks lifting exercises in real-time. Often times when lifting, people tend to employ poor form leading to gym injuries which could have been avoided by being proactive.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
I was inspired to make this device while sitting in physics class. I really felt compelled to make something that I learned inside the classroom and apply my education to something practical. Growing up I always remembered playing with magnetic kits and loved the feeling of repulsion between magnets.
#... | winning |
## Intro
Not many people understand Cryptocurrencies - let alone the underlying technology behind most of them, the Blockchain. Using an immersive and friendly UI, we built a easy to understand, realtime visualization of the blockchain in VR space with the Oculus Rift.
## How We Built It
The models in Unreal Engine,... | ## Inspiration
There are three other things that slow down Metaverse adoption today:
* Not really immersive without a powerful VR
* Bad user experience
* Low usage
## What it does
We are Mimetic and we want to make the Metaverse more fun, immersive, and accessible through augmented puppetry that translates real mov... | ## Inspiration
To introduce the most impartial and ensured form of voting submission in response to controversial democratic electoral polling following the 2018 US midterm elections. This event involved several encircling clauses of doubt and questioned authenticity of results by citizen voters. This propelled the id... | partial |
# SenreniAI: Your AI-Powered Emotional Wearable Haptics
## Overview
In today's fast-paced world, managing stress from work or school has become increasingly challenging. Mental health and emotional well-being are more important than ever, yet finding effective ways to regulate our moods can be difficult. Enter Sereni... | ## Inspiration
The idea behind Halo - Virtual Companion emerged from the increasing global issue of emotional well-being, especially in today's fast-paced world where loneliness, stress, and mental health challenges have become common. Inspired by recent advances in emotionally intelligent AI and technologies like Hum... | 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
Any seasoned online shopper knows that one of the best ways to get information ab... | ## Inspiration
Part of what makes playing music so enjoyable is playing with other people and hearing how your part fits into the piece as a whole. For many non-professional musicians, finding the time to play with others is quite a challenge, and practicing on one's own, while beneficial, is not enough to fully maste... | ## Inspiration
While there are several applications that use OCR to read receipts, few take the leap towards informing consumers on their purchase decisions. We decided to capitalize on this gap: we currently provide information to customers about the healthiness of the food they purchase at grocery stores by analyzin... | partial |
## welcome to Catmosphere!
we wanted to make a game with (1) cats and (2) cool art. inspired by the many "cozy indie" games on steam and on social media, we got working on a game where the cat has to avoid all the obstacles as it attempts to go into outer space.
**what it does**: use the WASD keys to navigate our cat... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make something that linked the virtual and real worlds, but in a quirky way. On our team we had people who wanted to build robots and people who wanted to make games, so we decided to combine the two.
## What it does
Our game portrays a robot (Todd) finding its way through obstacles that ... | ## Inspiration
We've gained inspiration from various types of games, such as 2D pixel games. Some of the mechanics are similar to how red stones work in Minecraft. We've gained art style inspiration from a variety of pixel games and we were aiming to have a dark and punky feel to it. When we see one of the topics as e... | winning |
## Inspiration
Star Wars inspired us.
## What it does
The BB-8 droid navigates its environment based on its user's gaze. The user simply has to change their gaze and the BB-8 will follow their eye-gaze.
## How we built it
We built it with an RC car kit placed into a styrofoam sphere. The RC car was created with an... | ## Inspiration
In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue.
## What it does
When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ... | ## Inspiration
Everyone on our team comes from a family of newcomers and just as it is difficult to come into a new country, we had to adapt very quickly to the Canadian system. Our team took this challenge as an opportunity to create something that our communities could deeply benefit from when they arrive in Canada.... | winning |
## Inspiration
From our experience renting properties from private landlords, we think the rental experience is broken. Payments and communication are fragmented for both landlords and tenants. As tenants, we have to pay landlords through various payment channels, and that process is even more frustrating if you have ... | ## Inspiration
As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ... | partial |
### Inspiration
The way research is funded is harmful to science — researchers seeking science funding can be big losers in the equality and diversity game. We need a fresh ethos to change this.
### What it does
Connexsci is a grant funding platform that generates exposure to undervalued and independent research thr... | ## Inspiration
Peer-review is critical to modern science, engineering, and healthcare
endeavors. However, the system for implementing this process has lagged behind
and results in expensive costs for publishing and accessing material, long turn
around times reminiscent of snail-mail, and shockingly opaque editorial
pr... | ## Inspiration
At the start of the 2021 school year, we moved away from home, away from all the luxuries of living with our parents. We were thrown into the adult world where we had to manage personal finances and cook for ourselves, all without prior experience. As we budgeted our meals and bought bulk foods, we alwa... | winning |
## Source Code
<https://github.com/khou22/SoFly-Scanner>
## Inspiration
The motivation for our application came when we realized how much our college uses flyers to advertise events. From dance recitals, to scientific talks, events are neatly summarized and hung on campus in visible areas. A huge part of our sense o... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for PillHero was to create a complete solution to helping the sick and elderly to learn and stick too their schedule for taking medication.
## What it does
Using the iOS app, the user enters their medication schedule, which is composed of a start date, end date, daily timings, and the ... | ## Inspiration
We are students at Minerva University which uses innovative curriculum and learning methods. Online forum classes is how we learn, they require active participation. While on the classes, we might doze off or forget about something discussed, which diminishes our grades. We always wanted a live, automat... | winning |
## The Gist
We combine state-of-the-art LLM/GPT detection methods with image diffusion models to accurately detect AI-generated video with 92% accuracy.
## Inspiration
As image and video generation models become more powerful, they pose a strong threat to traditional media norms of trust and truth. OpenAI's SORA mod... | # Fake Bananas
Fake news detection made simple and scalable for real people.
## Getting Started
I would strongly recommend a `conda` environment in order to easily install our older version of TensorFlow. We used `TensorFlow 0.12.1` for backwards compatibility with previous work in the field.
Newer versions of Tenso... | ## Inspiration
Viral content, particularly copyrighted material and deepfakes, has huge potential to be widely proliferated with Generative AI. This impacts artists, creators and businesses, as for example, copyright infringement causes $11.5 billion in lost profits within the film industry annually.
As students who ... | 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
<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
Many people feel unconfident, shy, and/or awkward doing interview speaking. It can be challenging for them to know how to improve and what aspects are key to better performance. With Talkology, they will be able to practice in a rather private setting while receiving relatively objective speaking feedba... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for TeddyTalk stems from the desire to create a magical and educational companion for children. In a world where technology is advancing rapidly, we wanted to apply the power of artificial intelligence to stimulate learning and communication in a friendly manner. Acknowledging that brain... | ## Inspiration
Part of what makes playing music so enjoyable is playing with other people and hearing how your part fits into the piece as a whole. For many non-professional musicians, finding the time to play with others is quite a challenge, and practicing on one's own, while beneficial, is not enough to fully maste... | ## Inspiration: We're trying to get involved in the AI chat-bot craze and pull together cool pieces of technology -> including Google Cloud for our backend, Microsoft Cognitive Services and Facebook Messenger API
## What it does: Have a look - message Black Box on Facebook and find out!
## How we built it: SO MUCH PY... | partial |
## Inspiration
In a conversation with a biochemistry student, a [study](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-illusion-of-being-observed-can-make-you-better-person/) from Newcastle University was brought up. It showed that the feeling of being observed can significantly improve behaviour, even if it is an... | ## Inspiration
While deciding to study, work, or do a task on your laptop is easy, actually focusing on the task for extended periods of time can be difficult. Especially in today's age with more studies coming out on the shrinkage of attention spans, we decided to actually do something about it.
## What it does
Our... | ## 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... | 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
Americans waste about 425 beverage containers per capita per year in landfill, litter, etc. Bottles are usually replaced with cans and bottles made from virgin materials which are more energy-intensive than recycled materials. This causes emissions of a host of toxics to the air and water and increases ... | ## Inspiration
Navigating an ever-evolving world of technology is challenging for many seniors. As many health applications and communications move online, seniors may feel that they are losing touch with their personal health. Blood Pressure Buddy helps seniors to be independent and proactive about their cardiovascul... | winning |
## Inspiration
Let's face it: Museums, parks, and exhibits need some work in this digital era. Why lean over to read a small plaque when you can get a summary and details by tagging exhibits with a portable device?
There is a solution for this of course: NFC tags are a fun modern technology, and they could be used to ... | ## Why We Created **Here**
As college students, one question that we catch ourselves asking over and over again is – “Where are you studying today?” One of the most popular ways for students to coordinate is through texting. But messaging people individually can be time consuming and awkward for both the inviter and t... | ## Inspiration
I dreamed about the day we would use vaccine passports to travel long before the mRNA vaccines even reached clinical trials. I was just another individual, fortunate enough to experience stability during an unstable time, having a home to feel safe in during this scary time. It was only when I started t... | winning |
## Inspiration
The main problem we are focusing is the inability of differently abled people to communicate with normal people or other differently abled people. Now, we are here with the combined Hardware and Software solution which is called **“EME”**, after analysing some problems. And, try to make the next generat... | ## TLDR
We are a developer toolkit which provides a decentralized database as a service where users can use our endpoints as well as NoCode tool where users can upload their data in a decentralised manner.
## Inspiration
👋🏻 With the advent of Web3, there are now decentralized **ways to store data that are a hundre... | ## Inspiration
I saw that the current methods of communication for paralyzed people could be improved upon. The low-tech solution was very slow and the higher tech solutions were complected, large, and very expensive.
## What it does
It cycles through various text options on the screen and when the user wishes to en... | winning |
## Inspiration
As AR becomes develops and becomes more discrete, we are going to see it more and more in every day life. We were excited by the social side of AR, and how integrating social networks in real life interactions brings the "social" side of social networking back. We wanted to find a way to identify humans... | ## Inspiration
After looking into the materials challenge, we realized that our backgrounds in image processing as well as elegant UIs made for a perfect way to gather information about microstructures and display it in a way that could allow for simple, autonomous analysis.
## What it does
Our project is split into... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
College students are uniquely vulnerable to the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption. Blacking out substantially raises the risk of [sexual assault, injury, and legal consequences](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.15157), especially for younger students. That’s why we’ve created Safe... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by true events. A night we don't fully remember. Imagine: You're out with your friends. A couple drinks in. You spend too long at the pre, and now the line to the club is super long. You don't get home on time. You forget to drink water so you're super hungover the next day. And even worse, you... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Most security cameras in school libraries are situated either at the elevator or in the corners of the floor, making it almost impossible to see who stole your item because the cameras only show who goes in and out of the Library floor as there are no cameras at individual seats. This project is to help... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a robot that could navigate natural disaster zones and sort through the rubble and locate any human life.
## What it does
Our robot uses a passive infrared sensor to detect human heat in conjunction with an ultrasonic sensor which measures distance and helps accurately plot the sha... | ## Inspiration
The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time.
## What it does
Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ... | losing |
## Inspiration
My teammates and I all save posts on Facebook, but never remember to go back to them. We wanted to create a feature that reminded the user to go back to their saved posts.
## What it does
Our app sets a reminder at the time the user selects after they save a post on Facebook for later. They have the o... | ## Inspiration
Life’s swift pace often causes us to overlook meaningful experiences, leading to nostalgia and a sense of lost connection with friends. Social media exacerbates this by showcasing others' highlight reels, which we envy, prompting a cycle of negative comparison and distraction through platforms like TikT... | ## Inspiration
As university students, we have been noticing issues with very large class sizes. With lectures often being taught to over 400 students, it becomes very difficult and anxiety-provoking to speak up when you don't understand the content. As well, with classes of this size, professors do not have time to a... | losing |
## Inspiration..
This web-app was inspired by our group's interest in internal combustion engines. We are a group of Mechanical Engineering students and in our major course dealing with Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Internal Combustion Engines, it has been difficult for us to visualize the effects of various inpu... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | # 🪼 **SeaScript** 🪸
## Inspiration
Learning MATLAB can be as appealing as a jellyfish sting. Traditional resources often leave students lost at sea, making the process more exhausting than a shark's endless swim. SeaScript transforms this challenge into an underwater adventure, turning the tedious journey of master... | winning |
## Inspiration
Every musician knows that moment of confusion, that painful silence as onlookers shuffle awkward as you frantically turn the page of the sheet music in front of you. While large solo performances may have people in charge of turning pages, for larger scale ensemble works this obviously proves impractica... | ## Inspiration
Pianos are usually heavy and expensive, so a keyboard made from cheap and portable materials like paper can be very useful. That's why we came up with the paper piano idea. With a paper piano, it's natural to connect it to a computer and achieve multiple purposes like composing. While most composers rel... | ## Inspiration
We thought Adhawk's eye tracking technology was super cool, so we wanted to leverage it in a VR game. However, since Adhawk currently only has a Unity SDK, we thought we would demonstrate a way to build eye-tracking VR games for the web using WebVR.
## Our first game
You, a mad scientist, want to be a... | winning |
## Inspiration
As developers, we often find ourselves building a habit of creating poor commit message descriptions when building personal projects. As this habit carries over when doing internships, co-ops or jobs, we wanted to build a solution to the habit.
## What it does
BetterCommits is a VSCode extension which... | ## 💡 Inspiration💡
We concentrated on building a practical solution for mental health concerns and education throughout the brainstorming process. This application was inspired by students worldwide who were unable to access ideal circumstances in their online classrooms or had too much schoolwork to prioritize, maki... | # Inspiration
Every year, 3,000 people pass away from distracted driving. And every year, it's the leading cause of car accidents. However, this is a problem that can be solved by a transition towards ambient and touchless computing.
From reducing distracted driving to having implications for in-home usage (for those ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Sharing a meal with others has always been a powerful mode of connecting people together, transcending historically divisive cultural and social constructs. Digging deep into “the making of a meal” is what served as our food for thought.
In a rapidly accelerating digital world, loneliness has become an... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted to address the growing concern for young adults and college students who are becoming increasingly dependent on food-delivery services like DoorDash and UberEats. This creates unhealthy habits of eating, which will scale into an unfavorable lifestyle in the future.
For convenience's sak... | ## Why We Created **Here**
As college students, one question that we catch ourselves asking over and over again is – “Where are you studying today?” One of the most popular ways for students to coordinate is through texting. But messaging people individually can be time consuming and awkward for both the inviter and t... | losing |
## Inspiration
It is well known that perfect practice makes perfect. Despite this, thousands of people settle for subpar practice when it comes to exams and technical interviews by practicing on a computer. Despite the unbelievable pace at which technology has advanced, paper still lacks key features such as IntelliSe... | ## Inspiration
Because I would like to develop a screenshot app for my cell phone, it seemed useful.
## What it does
It takes screenshots properly, while only limiting to the current screen.
## How we built it
We used Java and Android Studio to build it.
## Challenges we ran into
Best Newbie
Useless Stuff That n... | ## Inspiration
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | losing |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
Save the World is a mobile app meant to promote sustainable practices, one task at a time.
## What it does
Users begin with a colorless Earth prominently displayed on their screens, along with a list of possible tasks. After completing a sustainable task, such as saying no to a straw at a restaurant, ... | ## Inspiration
While visiting a low-income school in Brooklyn, John had an opportunity to watch some high-school students learn to code. What he saw was less than ideal. The lesson was to build an Asteroids-style game with Python. The instructor hoped that constructing a game would be sufficient motivation to keep the... | partial |
## Inspiration
We are heading to the wireless future where human and machine are united together
## What it does
Our program can analysis and record the brain wave and control the the Tello to taking off and landing.
## How we built it
First, we find a starter kit for brainwave detection called MindWave Mobile 2. ... | # HackMIT2019
For Speech to Text, in the python\_examples folder, run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
## Backstory
For our project, we were inspired by one of our team member's difficulty in learning Spanish. Reading a language you don't understand can be difficult. Mispronunciation is a common side effect of readi... | ## Inspiration
Building domain-specific automated systems in the real world is painstaking, requiring massive codebases for exception handling and robust testing of behavior for all kinds of contingencies — automated packaging, drone delivery, home surveillance, and search and rescue are all enormously complex and res... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration was that we wanted to build something that we would want use, and could use immediately after the event ended. The two core principles behind Verify are that we want information fast, and we want to know if it is biased. This means we don't want to leave our browser, don't want to scroll... | ## Inspiration
DeliverAI was inspired by the current shift we are seeing in the automotive and delivery industries. Driver-less cars are slowly but surely entering the space, and we thought driverless delivery vehicles would be a very interesting topic for our project. While drones are set to deliver packages in the n... | View presentation at the following link: <https://youtu.be/Iw4qVYG9r40>
## Inspiration
During our brainstorming stage, we found that, interestingly, two-thirds (a majority, if I could say so myself) of our group took medication for health-related reasons, and as a result, had certain external medications that result ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Love for making short films and clicking pictures
## What it does
Finds the best shoot location in our near vicinity
## How we built it
We used HTML, javascript , and css for the webpages and google maps api and places api for loading the map and finding the loactions
## Challenges we ran into
We ... | ## Inspiration
As coders, we often don’t have the time (or the will) to cook, which leads to one inevitable outcome—fast food, and not always the healthiest choices! We wanted to help fellow coders in workspaces and universities make better eating decisions. That’s where Goose the Duck comes in, our solution to encour... | ## Inspiration
As university students and soon to be graduates, we understand the financial strain that comes along with being a student, especially in terms of commuting. Carpooling has been a long existing method of getting to a desired destination, but there are very few driving platforms that make the experience b... | losing |
## Inspiration:
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Sound is a precious thing. Unfortunately, some people are unable to experience as a result of hearing loss or of being hearing impaired. Although, we firmly believe that communication should be as simple as a flick of the wrist and we aim to bring simplicity and ease to those affected by hearing l... | ## Inspiration
Our team focuses extensively on opportunities to ignite change through innovation. In this pursuit, we began to investigate the impact of sign-language glove technology on the hard of hearing community. In this, we learned that despite previous efforts to enhance accessibility, feedback from deaf advoca... | ## Inspiration
The ability to easily communicate with others is something that most of take for granted in our everyday life. However, for the millions of hearing impaired and deaf people all around the world, communicating their wants and needs is a battle they have to go through every day. The desire to make the wor... | partial |
## Inspiration
All of our team members are deeply passionate about improving students' education. We focused on the underserved community of deaf or hard-of-hearing students, who communicate, understand, and think primarily in ASL. While some of these students have become accustomed to reading English in various conte... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem.
## What ... | # Pythia Camera
Check out the [github](https://github.com/philipkiely/Pythia).
## Inspiration
#### Original Idea:
Deepfakes and more standard edits are a difficult threat to detect. Rather than reactively analyzi... | partial |
## Inspiration
AI voices are stale and impersonal. Chrome extensions like "Free Text To Speech Online" use default voices to read text messages on the web out loud. While these default voices excel in cadence and clarity, they miss the nuance and emotion inherent in human speech. This emotional connection is important... | ## Inspiration
Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ... | ## Inspiration
Only a small percentage of Americans use ASL as their main form of daily communication. Hence, no one notices when ASL-first speakers are left out of using FaceTime, Zoom, or even iMessage voice memos. This is a terrible inconvenience for ASL-first speakers attempting to communicate with their loved one... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our team’s mission is to build a tool that alleviates stress on Canadians during the hefty tax season.
With Canadians spending over 7 hours to complete their tax returns and over $5 billion dollars to cover personal income compliance costs, we decided to come up with a solution to help Canadians save t... | ## Inspiration
The fashion industry is often overlooked when we think about the main suspects to pollution. The industry has been burdened by hidden supply chains, unethical labor practices, and significant environmental damage in various sectors. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that the fashion industry i... | ## Inspiration
I worked as an accountant for many years, and realized along the way that accounting absolutely sucks. And accounting sucks especially for Small Businesses. As a small business owner, you have three options when it comes to accounting:
1. Spend thousands of dollars hiring an accountant.
2. Spend hundre... | partial |
## 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 ... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | ## FOMO No Mo'
\_ Fear Of Missing Out? No More, with this social app! \_
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> Our story begins with four nerds who love to code. For all of us, this was our **first** Hackathon, and excitement brewed in each of us. Originally, the team was just three: Alexander Stangl, Annie Xie, and Taylor Jean-Jacques. Each one of u... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our team noticed that barbers were hit pretty hard by the numerous lockdowns. In addition, we noted that the waiting process at barbershops were not enjoyable. As a result, we created RestorEase to help facilitate the process of booking timeslots to have a haircut at various barbers. The app would help ... | ## Inspiration and what it does
as a Berkeley student have you ever been looking for a haircut to only find out you have to shell out $20.... Trying to find a unique way to save money, I thought about barbers in training. Wouldnt they be cheap and qualified cause they need people to try their haircutting skills on to ... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | losing |
# Introduction
**EliOS is** a system for **understanding, predicting,** and **collaborating** to treat mood disorders.
Through brain scanning, mood tracking, and artificial intelligence, EliOS has the power to **change what it means to have a mood disorders**.
The system was built for (and named after) our wonderful... | ## Inspiration
Writing mathematical equations with a keyboard is time consuming, beyond basic arithmetic there are various symbols that are non-existent on a regular keyboard. While there are keyboard shortcuts to type these, most are difficult to remember and require a number pad which most modern day laptops and key... | ## Story
Mental health is a major issue especially on college campuses. The two main challenges are diagnosis and treatment.
### Diagnosis
Existing mental health apps require the use to proactively input their mood, their thoughts, and concerns. With these apps, it's easy to hide their true feelings.
We wanted to f... | losing |
## 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... | ## Introduction
[Best Friends Animal Society](http://bestfriends.org)'s mission is to **bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets**
They have an ambitious goal of **reducing the death of homeless pets by 4 million/year**
(they are doing some amazing work in our local communities and definitely deserve m... | ## Inspiration
In today's fast-paced world, highly driven individuals often overwork themselves without regard for how it impacts their health, only experiencing the consequences *when it is too late*. **AtlasAI** aims to bring attention to these health issues at an early stage, such that our users are empowered to li... | winning |
# Project Story
## About the Project
Our project, uCollab, was born out of the need to enhance online learning by fostering collaboration among students. As a team of four computer science and software engineering students in 2nd and 3rd year, we were inspired by the push to integrate social elements into online educ... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
Starting a new school year can get exciting, especially before it started because we're all curious to see who will be in our class. However, the number of people that are in our high school class is nothing compared to those university lectures, more specifically, engineers. We can't imagine what it wo... | partial |
## Inspiration
A deep and unreasonable love of xylophones
## What it does
An air xylophone right in your browser!
Play such classic songs as twinkle twinkle little star, ba ba rainbow sheep and the alphabet song or come up with the next club banger in free play.
We also added an air guitar mode where you can play a... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever tried learning the piano but never had the time to do so? Do you want to play your favorite songs right away without any prior experience? This is the app for you. We required something like this even for our personal use. It helps an immense lot in building muscle memory to play the piano... | ## Inspiration
More than 2.7 million pets will be killed over the next year because shelters cannot accommodate them. Many of them will be abandoned by owners who are unprepared for the real responsibilities of raising a pet, and the vast majority of them will never find a permanent home. The only sustainable solution... | winning |
## Inspiration
On average, every patient in the United States will experience one significant diagnostic error in their lifetime, incurring potentially devastating effects on the patient, their loved ones, and healthcare professionals. [1] Diagnostic errors are a common issue in healthcare and can lead to significant ... | ## We wanted to help the invisible people of Toronto, many homeless people do not have identification and often have a hard time keeping it due to their belongings being stolen. This prevents many homeless people to getting the care that they need and the access to resources that an ordinary person does not need to thi... | ## THE PROBLEM
In 2019, the World Health Organization found that medical errors are a leading cause of death and injury, amounting to a deficit of 37.6 to 50 billion USD loss through added health care, disability, and lost productivity. These errors are defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as int... | partial |
## Inspiration
Dana Porter Library soars above the rest of campus, being the tallest building within Ring Road and a network hub for thousands of students everyday. However, with ten floors filled books and tables and people, getting lost within the bookshelves is a universal experience for any visitor. The wayfinding... | ## Inspiration
University life involves much more freedom and Tag-Along doubles as a tool for users to not only share their ambitious plans for hangouts, but also:
* Grow your social circle
* Makes it easier to ask many friends to hang out at once
* Can be used for studying, going to the gym, going to school events/c... | ## Inspiration
RoomRival drew inspiration from the desire to revolutionize indoor gaming experiences. We wanted to create an innovative and dynamic platform that transforms ordinary spaces into competitive battlegrounds, bringing people together through technology, strategy, and social interaction while integrating th... | losing |
## 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 ... | ## Inspiration
In large corporations, such as RBC, the help desk gets called hundreds phone calls every hour, lasting about 8 minutes on average and costing the company $15 per hour. We thought this was both a massive waste of time and resources, not to mention it being quite ineffective and inefficient. We wanted to ... | ## Inspiration
With a variety of language learning resources out there, we set out to create a tool that can help us practice a part of language that keeps things flowing -- conversation! LanguaLine aims to empower users to speak their foreign language by helping them develop their conversational skills.
## What it d... | winning |
# RecycPal
## Summary
RecycPal is your pal for creating a more sustainable world! RecycPal uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you identify what can be or cannot be recycled.
This project was developed during DeltaHacks 8. Please check out our DevPost here:... | ## Inspiration
SustainaPal is a project that was born out of a shared concern for the environment and a strong desire to make a difference. We were inspired by the urgent need to combat climate change and promote sustainable living. Seeing the increasing impact of human activities on the planet's health, we felt compe... | ## 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 ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We came to this Treehacks wanting to contribute our efforts towards health care. After checking out and working with some of the fascinating technologies we had available to us, we realized that the Magic Leap AR device would be perfect for developing a hack to help the visually impaired.
## What it do... | ## Inspiration
As some airplanes adopt self-driving systems, some will remain manually controlled. Since all aircraft cannot adopt synchronized self-driving systems simultaneously, we need software to help us transition into this new technology to prevent accidents during taxi. Aircraft Marshalls direct aircraft with ... | ## Inspiration
One of our friends is blind. She describes using her cane as a hassle, and explains that when she is often stressed about accidentally touching someone with her cane, doing two-handed tasks like carrying groceries or giving a friend a hug, and setting the cane down or leaning it against the wall when sh... | partial |
## Inspiration
College students are busy, juggling classes, research, extracurriculars and more. On top of that, creating a todo list and schedule can be overwhelming and stressful. Personally, we used Google Keep and Google Calendar to manage our tasks, but these tools require constant maintenance and force the sched... | ## 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
The inspiration for our auto-scheduling project emerged from the **increased need for automated and personalized recommendations** in travel planning tools. We recognized that multi-agent LLMs hold immense potential to tackle complex tasks such as **personalized scheduling**. This potential drove our te... | winning |
## Inspiration
Through going to big lectures at Berkeley, we've always found that it was difficult for courses to keep track of our attendance. Professors have gone through countless methods to track student attendance, such as requiring students to buy pricy hardware.
## What it does
Tracks student attendance **and... | ### FOR EVALUATORS/SPONSORS:
Scroll down for a handy guide to navigating our repository and our project's assets.
## 💥 How it all started
Every student learns differently. Traditional educational approaches, while effective for some, often fail to cater to the diverse needs and paces of individual learners. Even tr... | ## Inspiration
How many times have you been in a lecture in person or online and wished that you could discuss the current topic with someone since you're having a hard time understanding in real-time? How many times have you taken a picture of the whiteboard to look at it later but never ended up studying from it? Wh... | partial |
## 💡 INSPIRATION 💡
Today, Ukraine is on the front lines of a renewed conflict with Russia. Russia's recent full-scale invasion of Ukraine has created more than 4.3 million refugees and displaced another 6.5 million citizens in the past 6 weeks according to the United Nations. Humanitarian aid organizations make trip... | ## Inspiration
I was compelled to undertake a project on my own for this first time in my hackathoning career. One that I covers my interests in web applications and image processing and would be something "do-able" within the competition.
## What it does
Umoji is a web-app that take's an image input and using facia... | ## Inspiration
As we know, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left us in a state of wonder. Such an open attack was hard to imagine for us. And now, we are not entirely sure what to make of it and are often left confused. Much credit for that goes to the media, which is filled with false news about the War. This is wher... | partial |
## Inspiration
For years, the field of dermatology has been facing a myriad of challenges, some of which include the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosing skin conditions. Skin disease diagnoses were traditionally based on visual inspections, observations, and measurements. However, the accuracy of these methods will ... | ## Inspiration
Due to the shortages of doctors and clinics in rural areas, early diagnosis of skin diseases that may seem harmless on the outside but can become life-threatening is a real problem. MediDerma uses Computer Vision to predict skin diseases and provide the underlying symptoms associated which are prominent... | ## Inspiration
People are increasingly aware of climate change but lack actionable steps. Everything in life has a carbon cost, but it's difficult to understand, measure, and mitigate. Information about carbon footprints of products is often inaccessible for the average consumer, and alternatives are time consuming to... | losing |
## Inspiration
Growing up in the early 2000s, communiplant's founding team knew what it was like to grow up in vibrant communities, interconnected interpersonal and naturally.
Today's post-covid fragmented society lacks the community and optimism that kept us going. The lack of optimism is especially evident through ... | ## Inspiration
The idea addresses a very natural curiosity to live and experience the world as someone else, and out of the progress with the democratization of VR with the Cardboard, we tried to create a method for people to "upload" their life to others. The name is a reference to Sharon Creech's quote on empathy in... | ## Inspiration
During this Covid-19 pandemic, our team has noticed the high demand in essentials such as face masks and the importance of lending a hand to those in most need. When people come together as a whole great things happen. What better way than to create an application to connect eager volunteers with organi... | winning |
## Inspiration
During last year's World Wide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a host of new innovative frameworks (including but not limited to CoreML and ARKit) which placed traditionally expensive and complex operations such as machine learning and augmented reality in the hands of developers such as myself. ... | ## Inspiration
If you're lucky enough to enjoy public speaking, we're jealous of you. None of us like public speaking, and we realized that there are not a lot of ways to get real-time feedback on how we can improve without boring your friends or family to listen to you.
We wanted to build a tool that would help us p... | ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
* Style-IT is a hairstyle matching application based on **Multi-Layer Perception Neural Network Model** which a **Deep Learning Model** for classification and further **K-nearest neighbour Machine Learning Algorithms** to find the best Recommendation for your hairstyle.
* We feat... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for "Kurriculum" stemmed from our experiences as K-12 educators. We found that creating comprehensive curricula and session plans for high school projects was a challenging and time-consuming task. To make this process more efficient and teacher-friendly, we decided to develop a web appl... | **What inspired us**
Despite the prevalence of LLMs increasing, their power still hasn't been leveraged to improve the experience of students during class. In particular, LLMs are often discouraged by professors, often because they often give inaccurate or too much information. To remedy this issue, we created an LLM t... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind Mentis emerged from a realization of the vast potential that a personalized learning AI platform holds in transforming education. We envisioned an AI-driven mentor capable of adapting to individual learning styles and needs, making education more accessible, engaging, and effectiv... | 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
Wondering what Vine, Tinder and YikYak would be like when combined together.
## What it does
Users can take and upload videos, or explore videos uploaded nearby in a unique UI.
## How I built it
Android app with Node.js back end
## Challenges I ran into
Video streaming.
## Accomplishments that I'... | A long time ago (last month) in a galaxy far far away (literally my room) I was up studying late for exams and decided to order some hot wings. With my food being the only source of joy that night you can imaging how devastated I was to find out that they were stolen from the front lobby of my building! That's when the... | partial |
## What it does
Our platform scrapes the data from **multiple sources**, **filters** extraneous anomalies and cleans the data, then it runs sentimental analysis also while collecting important metadata and **geotagging** necessary fields. Then it stores everything on elasticsearch instance for further processing in Ki... | # unbiasMe
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University student environments are filled with passionate discussion and debates of controversial topics. The recent Canadian federal election was the fi... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
As a team, we've been increasingly concerned about the *data privacy* of users on the internet in 2022. There’s no doubt that the era of vast media consumption has resulted in a monopoly of large tech firms who hold a strong grasp over each and every single user input. When every action you make results... | ## 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 inspiration for this project comes from a brainstorming session that ended up in a conclusion that marketing campaigns are sporadically ran and could benefit from heavy optimizing.
## What it does
This program pinpoints previously untargete
## How we built it
This project was built using a numbe... | partial |
# DeezSquats: Break PRs, not spines!
💪 Tired of feeling stuck? 🏋️♀️ Ready to take control of your health and fitness without the risk of injury? **DeezSquats** is your personalized fitness coach, designed to make exercise safe, enjoyable, and accessible for everyone.
❌ No more guesswork, no more fear. ✅ Our real-t... | **Come check out our fun Demo near the Google Cloud Booth in the West Atrium!! Could you use a physiotherapy exercise?**
## The problem
A specific application of physiotherapy is that joint movement may get limited through muscle atrophy, surgery, accident, stroke or other causes. Reportedly, up to 70% of patients gi... | ## Inspiration
Being sport and fitness buffs, we understand the importance of right form. Incidentally, suffering from a wrist injury himself, Mayank thought of this idea while in a gym where he could see almost everyone following wrong form for a wide variety of exercises. He knew that it couldn't be impossible to ma... | partial |
## Inspiration
With all the new films (DEADPOOL) that come out recently and the amount of spoiler leaked by tweeter and reddit, we wanted to do something about it to have a Web spoiler free save environment.
## What it does
Our Chrome extension parse the webpage you are browsing and hide potential spoiler from you b... | ## Inspiration
Initially, we struggled to find a project idea. After circling through dozens of ideas and the occasional hacker's block, we were still faced with a huge ***blank space***. In the midst of all our confusion, it hit us that this feeling of desperation and anguish is familiar to all thinkers and creators.... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was our experience as students. We believe students need more a digestible feed when it comes to due dates. Having to manually plan for homework, projects, and exams can be annoying and time consuming. StudyHedge is here to lift the scheduling burden off your shoulders!
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## ❓The problem at hand.
How might we leverage an AI tool tracker to ensure **surgical safety** for **every patient**?
## 🌱 Where did this stem from?
A surgical tool **"the size of a dinner plate"** has been discovered inside a woman's abdomen 18 months after undergoing a c-section while giving birth to her child –... | ## Inspiration
There are 1 million working medical professionals across the US today, performing a variety of disciplines across the industry. However, as of last year, there are only ~300 deaf physicians. If that weren't already a fraction, the slice further shrinks when you compare that to the 11 million deaf adults... | ## Inspiration
*"A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy." - Mahatma Gandhi*
In this fast-paced world where everything seems to be conveniently accessed in a matter of seconds at our fingertips with our smartphones and laptops, some parts of our lives can not be replaced or compromised. Let's not kid ourselve... | losing |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ... | ## Inspiration
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | winning |
## Inspiration
When entering into an unusually cold or warm room, we've always wondered what the room temperature was. However, it is simply impractical to bring an ambient thermometer everywhere. Furthermore, few smartphones on the market currently have a built-in thermometer. The need for accessible and versatile in... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted improve the daily lives of our society and third world countries. We realized that a lot of fatigue is caused by dehydration, and that it is easily improved by drinking more water. However, we often forget as our lives get very busy, but what we don't forget to do is to check our phones ... | ## Inspiration
As the world progresses into the digital age, there is a huge simultaneous focus on creating various sources of clean energy that is sustainable and affordable. Unfortunately, there is minimal focus on ways to sustain the increasingly rapid production of energy. Energy is wasted everyday as utility comp... | losing |
# DriveWise: Building a Safer Future in Route Planning
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens, with over a third of teen fatalities resulting from traffic accidents. This represents one of the most pressing public safety issues today. While many route-planning algorithms exist, most prioritiz... | ## Inspiration
One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss.
Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe... | ## Inspiration
We hear stories about crimes happening around us everyday. It's especially terrifying since we're students and we just want to enjoy our college experience. While discussing ideas to hack, we realized this problem **resonated with all of us**. We immediately realized that we need to work on this.
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## Inspiration
When we travel to a new location, it's useful to figure out where to go, what to eat, and draw out a travel itinerary. Ideally, our day trips are organized so all the places we are visiting are easily and efficiently accessible away from each other.
## What is it
TravelPlanner is a web app that plans ... | ## Inspiration
TripAdvisor and RoadTrippers
## What it does
Our project gives community-based and calculated plans to users based on points of attraction and personal preferences, like staying longer in nature spots or museums. The app blends information of popular spots and visualizations to provide easy interpreta... | # Things2Do
Minimize time spent planning and maximize having fun with Things2Do!
## Inspiration
The idea for Things2Do came from the difficulties that we experienced when planning events with friends. Planning events often involve venue selection which can be a time-consuming, tedious process. Our search for solutio... | losing |
## Inspiration
We’ve all had the experience of needing assistance with a task but not having friends available to help. As a last resort, one has to resort to large, class-wide GroupMe’s to see if anyone can help. But most students have those because they’re filled with a lot of spam. As a result, the most desperate c... | ## Inspiration
I was inspired to make this device while sitting in physics class. I really felt compelled to make something that I learned inside the classroom and apply my education to something practical. Growing up I always remembered playing with magnetic kits and loved the feeling of repulsion between magnets.
#... | ## Inspiration 🔥
While on the way to CalHacks, we drove past a fire in Oakland Hills that had started just a few hours prior, meters away from I-580. Over the weekend, the fire quickly spread and ended up burning an area of 15 acres, damaging 2 homes and prompting 500 households to evacuate. This served as a harsh re... | partial |
## Inspiration
Small scale braille printers cost between $1800 and $5000. We think that this is too much money to spend for simple communication and it has acted as a barrier for many blind people for a long time. We plan to change this by offering a quick, affordable, precise solution to this problem.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
There has never been a more relevant time in political history for technology to shape our discourse. Clara AI can help you understand what you're reading, giving you political classification and sentiment analysis so you understand the bias in your news.
## What it does
Clara searches for news on an ... | ## Inspiration
1.3 billion People have some sort of vision impairment. They face difficulties in simple day to day task like reading, recognizing faces, objects, etc. Despite the huge number surprisingly there are only a few devices in the market to aid them, which can be hard on the pocket (5000$ - 10000$!!). These d... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by the website <https://thispersondoesnotexist.com>, deepfakes, and how realistic images produced by GANs (Generative adversarial networks) can be.
## What it does
We created a website where people play a game where they are given one image that is real and one image that is produced ... | ## Inspiration
The Google Map API has features that display the crowdedness of locations. But it does not provide an efficient way to explore the alternative trip plans, nor does it take into account regional COVID cases. We hope this tool provides a safe and quick way to minimize COVID exposure for people who need to... | ## Inspiration
We want to make everyone impressed by our amazing project! We wanted to create a revolutionary tool for image identification!
## What it does
It will identify any pictures that are uploaded and describe them.
## How we built it
We built this project with tons of sweats and tears. We used Google Visi... | losing |
## Inspiration
Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ... | ## welcome to Catmosphere!
we wanted to make a game with (1) cats and (2) cool art. inspired by the many "cozy indie" games on steam and on social media, we got working on a game where the cat has to avoid all the obstacles as it attempts to go into outer space.
**what it does**: use the WASD keys to navigate our cat... | <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17jLxtiNIFxF41xbQ_rubA5ijnvBGJ1RSAMUSMkTO91U/edit?usp=sharing>
## Inspiration
We became inspired after realizing the complexity of bias in media and the implicant bias people have when writing articles. We began the project by recognizing four major issues with bias in media:
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## 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... | ## Our Inspiration
We were inspired by apps like Duolingo and Quizlet for language learning, and wanted to extend those experiences to a VR environment. The goal was to gameify the entire learning experience and make it immersive all while providing users with the resources to dig deeper into concepts.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to improve even more on the immersiveness of VR by using 3D maps based on the real world. We also wanted to demonstrate the power of AR as a medium for interactive and collaborative gaming. We also wanted to connect the physical world with the real world, so a player moves through the game by ... | winning |
# Inspiration
After talking to Richard White from EDR, we decided that using a graph database to search for patterns seemed like a very interesting problem to solve. Though the problem was narrow, we were able to use existing platforms to efficiently solve the problem.
# What It Does
Graph.srch allows the user to sp... | ## Inspiration
This week a 16 year old girl went missing outside Oslo, in Norway. Her parents posted about it on Facebook, and it was quickly shared by thousands of people. An immense amount of comments scattered around a large amount of Facebook posts consisted of people trying to help, by offering to hang up posters... | ## Inspiration
Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i... | partial |
### Inspiration
In a world where environmental degradation has reached critical levels, our team was inspired to create "EcoCraft" to raise awareness about the importance of environmental conservation. We were moved by the devastating impacts of deforestation, pollution, and climate change on the planet's ecosystems. ... | ## Inspiration
Only 57% of the US population identify as financially literate (2015 Standard & Poor's Global Financial Literacy Survey) while approximately 39% of Canadian millennial men said they were concerned about their level of literacy compared to 29% of Canadian women said they were worried (GlobalNews). Indica... | **Inspiration**
Inspiration came from the growing concern about environmental sustainability and waste management. We were particularly struck by the amount of waste generated by single-use packaging and products from large corporations like PepsiCo. We wanted to find a way to inspire people to think creatively about t... | losing |
## Inspiration
Imbuing personality into product is a feature recently sought out by several leading companies in the consumer product industry. In the gaming industry, Corsair is a key leader with its customizable gaming peripherals, allowing users to easily personalize their own gear using custom LED lighting. The ab... | ## Inspiration
✨ In a world that can sometimes feel overwhelmingly negative, we wanted to create an oasis of positivity. The inspiration for **harbor.ed** comes from the calming effect that the ocean and its inhabitants have on many people. As students, we often crave for the need to be cared for, and of course, habor... | ## Inspiration
While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de... | partial |
## The Problem 🤔
In the midst of an ecological crisis, one of Canada's largest environmental problems is being caused by one of its smallest critters - the dreaded Mountain Pine Beetle. Between 1990 and 2012, the Beetle ate its way through approximately 723 million cubic metres (53%) of all the merchantable pine in B... | ## Inspiration
We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was from the recent spread of pests throughout the U.S., such as Japanese beetles, which have wreaked havoc for crops and home gardens. We personally have gardens at home where we grow plants like cucumbers and tomatoes, and were tired of seeing half-eaten leaves and des... | winning |
## Inspiration
Ever wondered how much water we use on a daily basis? Because we sure did! We wanted to create an application that would make people more conscious of their daily water consumption and making the motivation of doing so by watering trees.
## What it does
**WaterWatch** is an app on the *Apple Watch* th... | ## Inspiration
We can take a texture like this:
... and a potato like this:
. After learning about the lack of website accessibility, we wanted to find a solution for improving the user experience for disabled individ... | ## 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
After growing up learning programming concepts from great tools such as Scratch, Logo and Processing, we realised the power but also the limitations of using visual feedback to make learning programming more rewarding.
Tools like these and many others, rely on visual mediums to communicate core program... | partial |
### 🌟 Inspiration
We're inspired by the idea that emotions run deeper than a simple 'sad' or 'uplifting.' Our project was born from the realization that personalization is the key to managing emotional states effectively.
### 🤯🔍 What it does?
Our solution is an innovative platform that harnesses the power of AI a... | ## 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
We’re huge fans of Spotify, but we’ve always hoped there were more filters for our liked songs outside of just album, artist, and song title. What if we could instead filter by what mood, or “vibe” each song represents? Vibe's got you covered.
## What it does
Vibe, powered by Wolfram AI, analyzes your... | winning |
## Inspiration
For this project, we reflected on the greatest challenges we faced throughout 2020, with many taking a toll on our individual and collective wellbeing. This propelled us into creating an app for people, especially college students, to maximize their time. Since we have only a finite amount of time in ou... | ## Inspiration
STEM was inspired by our group members, who all experienced failure of a personal health goal. We believed that setting similar goals with our friends and seeing their progress will indeed inspire us to work harder towards completing our goal. We also agreed that this may encourage us to start challenge... | ## 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 |
## Inspiration
Our journey with SignEase began with a vision: to foster inclusivity and connection by breaking down communication barriers. Inspired by the universal language of sign, we aimed to create a platform where all could communicate freely. Recognizing its transformative power, we embarked on a mission to bui... | ## Inspiration
In today's world, technology has made it possible for people from various backgrounds and cultures to interact and understand each other through various cross-cultural and cross-linguistic platforms. Spoken language is a much smaller barrier than it was a few decades ago. But there still remains a commu... | ## Inspiration
We have people in our family who have hearing impairments and use ASL to communicate however, some of us realise that we do not know ASL properly and are in the process of learning. We wanted to make this app to raise awareness for people to learn ASL to bridge the gap between ableism and disableism.
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## Inspiration
Many students have learning disabilities that negatively impact their education. After doing some research, we learned that there were nearly 150,000 students in Ontario alone!
UofT offers note-taking services to students that are registered with accessibility services, but the service relies on the qua... | ## Inspiration
Professor Michelle McAllister, formerly at Northeastern University, provided notes styled in such a manner. These "incomplete" notes were filled out by students during her lectures. A team member was her student and, having done very well in her class, wanted to create similarly-styled notes for other c... | ## Inspiration 💡
With the introduction of online-based learning, a lot of video tutorials are being created for students and learners to gain knowledge. As much as the idea is excellent, there was also a constraint whereby the tutorials may contain long hours of content and in some cases, it is inaccessible to users ... | partial |
## Inspiration
We are a team of engineering science students with backgrounds in mathematics, physics and computer science. A common passion for the implementation of mathematical methods in innovative computing contexts and the application of these technologies to physical phenomena motivated us to create this projec... | ## Inspiration
The intention behind NintAudio is, aside from recreating the feel of old arcade games, to offer new ways of exploring gaming. It was actually Xavier who came up with the idea, being interested in the accessibility of browsers; the question that naturally came next was "but what about video games?".
Thi... | ## Inspiration
We have seen many families install home theatre systems into their houses. But, most of them are unable to utilize the full capability of their speaker systems because they don't know the best positions to place their speakers at. We decided to solve this problem by making a website that people can run ... | winning |
## Inspiration
E-cigarette use, specifically Juuling, has become an increasing public health concern among young adults and teenagers over the past few years. While e-cigarettes are often viewed as a safe alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes have been proven to have negative health effects on bo... | ## Inspiration
According to the Washington Post (June 2023), since Columbine in 1999, more than 356,000 students in the U.S. have experienced gun violence at school.
Students of all ages should be able to learn comfortably and safely within the walls of their classroom.
Quality education is a UN Sustainable Developm... | ## Inspiration
With caffeine being a staple in almost every student’s lifestyle, many are unaware when it comes to the amount of caffeine in their drinks. Although a small dose of caffeine increases one’s ability to concentrate, higher doses may be detrimental to physical and mental health. This inspired us to create ... | partial |
## What's Lookout?
The number one challenge of living in the modern world is information overload, and keeping track of everything is no trivial task. Context switching between what is currently on your screen and any sort of organizational app is distracting and time consuming (think about accidentally flying three d... | ### Inspiration
The inspiration behind **Plate It Forward** stems from the alarming statistic that over 30% of food is lost or wasted each year globally. Seeing how much perfectly edible food ends up in landfills while many people face food insecurity, we wanted to create a platform that makes it easier for individual... | ## 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
We were inspired by the importance of **financial well-being** and the growing need for personalized financial tools that help individuals make informed decisions about their money. With the rise of AI technologies, we saw an opportunity to provide users with a smart budgeting tool that can offer insigh... | ## Inspiration
Managing group purchases, like grocery runs or restaurant bills, can be frustrating, especially when splitting costs among friends or roommates. The idea for Smarter Finance came from the realization that it would be so much easier to just snap a picture of a receipt, get an itemized list, and instantly... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
The issue of waste management is something that many people view as trivial yet is one of the fundamental factors that will decide the liveability of the world. Yet even in Canada, a developed country, only 9% of plastics are recycled, meaning that the equivalent of 24 CN towers of recyclable plastic en... | ## Inspiration
Canadians produce more garbage per capita than any other country on earth, with the United States ranking third in the world. In fact, Canadians generate approximately 31 million tonnes of garbage a year. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 75% of this waste is recyclable. Yet, only 30% of... | ## Inspiration
This system was designed to make waste collection more efficient, organized and user-friendly.
Keeping the end users in mind we have created a system that detects what type of waste has been inserted in the bin and categorizes it as a recyclable or garbage.
The system then opens the appropriate shoot (... | partial |
## Inspiration
Out on a group adventure? After the day's over, you can use BillSplit to figure out who owes who.
## What it does
## How we built it
## Challenges we ran into
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
## What we learned
## What's next for BillSplit | ## Inspiration
Because our friends always flake on things they say they're going to do. From studying to arriving on time. Our 4th group mate also decided to flake, leading to the creation of this app.
## What it does
Users can add tasks of goals they want to do which this app will hold on to. The kicker is that the... | # Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**.
## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat... | losing |
## Inspiration
Through quarantine, we have noticed that communication has become super tough and it has become very easy to fall into the habit of assuming other people's thoughts and overthinking the intent behind messages. We agreed that it must have been even harder for people who already struggle with reading emot... | ## Introduction
Our innovative AI utilizes cutting-edge technology to analyze your facial expressions and speech through your webcam and microphone. Once you start interacting, the AI will adapt its responses according to your emotions and engagement level, providing a unique, immersive, and engaging conversational ex... | ## Inspiration
Globally, one in ten people do not know how to interpret their feelings. There's a huge global shift towards sadness and depression. At the same time, AI models like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion are creating beautiful works of art, completely automatically. Our team saw the opportunity to leverage AI ima... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by recent natural disasters and acts of violence seen across America
## What it does
Our project is designed for event and building management who could use Cisco Meraki’s various features to improve safety and efficiency of evacuating a building or event.
## How we built it
We firs... | ## Inspiration
I got this idea because of the current hurricane Milton causing devastation across Florida.
The inspiration behind *Autonomous AI Society* stems from the need for faster, more efficient, and autonomous systems that can make critical decisions during disaster situations. With multiple sponsors like Fetch... | ## Inspiration
One of the biggest roadblocks during disaster relief is reestablishing the first line of communication between community members and emergency response personnel. Whether it is the aftermath of a hurricane devastating a community or searching for individuals in the backcountry, communication is the key ... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind "Nurture AI" stemmed from understanding the unique challenges faced by parents, especially those of special needs children. Recognizing that constant supervision can be both exhausting and impractical, we sought to create a tool that would assist in monitoring their child’s emotio... | ## 📚🙋♂️Domain Name📚🙋♂️
**DOMAIN.COM: AUTINJOY-WITH.TECH**
## 💡Inspiration💡
Parents know that travelling can be an eye-opening experience for kids, but they also know that travelling even with one kid can be overwhelming, involving lots of bathroom stops and needing to manage boredom, motion sickness, and mor... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
During quarantine, I noticed that my niece had been behind on her education, because she was unable to go to school during a pandemic. She does not have a lot of knowledge when it comes to her alphabet or number recognition. I understood that there are many different resources such as flash cards or wor... | ## Inspiration
Going into our first Hackathon, our team had little experience, but a tonne of passion for coding, and was full of energy and excitement to learn from the event. After reading through the topics available, our team just knew we had to address the problem of cyberbullying. **Every single one of us has fa... | ## **Inspiration:**
Our inspiration stemmed from the realization that the pinnacle of innovation occurs at the intersection of deep curiosity and an expansive space to explore one's imagination. Recognizing the barriers faced by learners—particularly their inability to gain real-time, personalized, and contextualized ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Everyone can relate to the scene of staring at messages on your phone and wondering, "Was what I said toxic?", or "Did I seem offensive?". While we originally intended to create an app to help neurodivergent people better understand both others and themselves, we quickly realized that emotional intellig... | ## 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
Going home for winter break and seeing friends was a great time, but throughout all the banter, I realized that our conversations often took a darker turn, and I worried for my friends' mental health. During the school year, it was a busy time and I wasn't able to stay in touch with my friends as well a... | partial |
## Inspiration
We both love karaoke, but there are lots of obstacles:
* going to a physical karaoke is expensive and inconvenient
* youtube karaoke videos not always matches your vocal (key) range, and there is also no playback
* existing karaoke apps have limited songs, not flexible based on your music taste
## Wha... | ## Inspiration
Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ... | ## Inspiration
Seeing the impact of quarantine linger on to today’s youth, we wanted to craft a remedy for those who are struggling with mental health challenges and feelings of loneliness. Fun is often the best way to vent out our negative emotions and what better than to merge it with singing, an activity that has p... | winning |
# unbiasMe
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> An AI based search engine capable of identifying bias in news articles and promoting sources that are unbiased.
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#### Story Behind the Project
University student environments are filled with passionate discussion and debates of controversial topics. The recent Canadian federal election was the fi... | ## Inspiration
When reading news articles, we're aware that the writer has bias that affects the way they build their narrative. Throughout the article, we're constantly left wondering—"What did that article not tell me? What convenient facts were left out?"
## What it does
*News Report* collects news articles by to... | ## Inspiration
The biggest irony today is despite the advent of the internet, students and adults are more oblivious than ever to world events, and one can easily understand why. Of course, Facebook, YouTube, and League will be more interesting than reading Huffington Post; coupled with the empirical decrease in the a... | partial |
## Inspiration
Created an idea
## What it does
Our app uses geofences to help business promote their restaurant out when people walk near them.
## How I built it
-Created a website interface for businesses to set up their business with a geofence.
-Used php to interact with an SQL database to save information
## ... | ## Inspiration - When coming across a bunch of news articles of people sharing their assault stories years after the event, an idea to create a safe space where anonymous (and known) stories could be shared to help raise awareness.
## What it does - AREA is essentially a location flagger for every place. People can po... | ## Inspiration
The vicarious experiences of friends, and some of our own, immediately made clear the potential benefit to public safety the City of London’s dataset provides. We felt inspired to use our skills to make more accessible, this data, to improve confidence for those travelling alone at night.
## What it do... | losing |
## 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
Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves.
## What it does
The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c... | ## Inspiration
Did you know the average US worker spends **5 hours** a week in meetings and **4 hours** in preparation! This not only wastes company time, but company money as well. Minitum's goal is to help companies have more efficient meetings to create a more productive environment.
## What it does
Minitum allow... | winning |
## YHacks
Team Techies | ## Inspiration
Based off of our own hackathon experiences and those of our friends, we know that the most chaotic portion of almost every hackathon is team formation - everyone scrambles to find other individuals with skills that compliment theirs & make a strong team. But this is often facilitated via Facebook Groups... | ## Inspiration:
Millions of active software developers use GitHub for managing their software development, however, our team believes that there is a lack of incentive and engagement factor within the platform. As users on GitHub, we are aware of this problem and want to apply a twist that can open doors to a new inno... | losing |
## Inspiration
Sleep tracking with your phone is useful, but terribly drains your battery overnight, when it's supposed to be charging.
## What it does
Bluetooth enabled Ardino is implanted into a Plush Toy (the aRAWRm). An app on your phone can activate the buzzer to play the Mario theme, or activate the multi-colo... | ## Inspiration
Swap was inspired by COVID-19 having an impact on many individuals’ daily routines. Sleep schedules were shifted, more distractions were present due to working from home, and being away from friends and family members was difficult. Our team wanted to create a solution that would help others add excitem... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | partial |
## Inspiration
At work, we use a tele-presence robot call the BEAM. It is a very cool piece of technology that works to enable more personal remote meetings between people, and increase the amount of "presence" a person may have remotely. However, upon checking the cost of such technology, the 2.5k USD to 15k+ USD pri... | ## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | ## Inspiration
We were really excited to hear about the self-driving bus Olli using IBM's Watson. However, one of our grandfather's is rather forgetful due to his dementia, and because of this would often forget things on a bus if he went alone. Memory issues like this would prevent him, and many people like him, from... | winning |
## Inspiration
With the recent Corona Virus outbreak, we noticed a major issue in charitable donations of equipment/supplies ending up in the wrong hands or are lost in transit. How can donors know their support is really reaching those in need? At the same time, those in need would benefit from a way of customizing w... | ## Inspiration
Our journey with PathSense began with a deeply personal connection. Several of us have visually impaired family members, and we've witnessed firsthand the challenges they face navigating indoor spaces. We realized that while outdoor navigation has seen remarkable advancements, indoor environments remain... | [Check out the GitHub repo.](https://github.com/victorzshi/better)
## Inspiration
In our friend group, we often like to bet against each other on goals for motivation and fun. We realized that in many situations, exposing personal milestones to a group of friends can provide great social encouragement and strengthen ... | winning |
## Inspiration
The worst feeling in the world is powerlessness. In the emergency health world, it happens all too often. Even if you call 911, the average response time for EMS is 7minutes. Rather sit and wait for the first responders, most people chose to act. A cold shower to help their drunk partner or a towel to b... | ## Inspiration
As students with family in West Africa, we’ve been close to personal situations in which the difference between life and death was quick access to medical aid. One call, quicker service or a nearby expert or volunteer could’ve made a big difference, preventing a life from being lost. We were inspired by... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
When discussing potential ideas, we asked each other for any problems we experienced walking around campus and came up with the idea of finding which rooms are empty. We all ran into the problem of walking around buildings just looking at each room, trying to randomly find one that is empty, and thought... | ## Inspiration
During the past summer, we experienced the struggles of finding subletters for our apartment. Ads were posted in various locations, ranging from Facebook to WeChat. Our feeds were filled with other people looking for people to sublet as well. As a result, we decided to create Subletting Made Easy. We en... | ## Project Title
**UniConnect** - Enhancing the College Experience
## Inspiration
🌟 Our inspiration stems from a deep understanding of the challenges that university freshmen encounter during their initial year on campus. Having personally navigated these highs and lows during our own freshman year last year, we fe... | partial |
## Inspiration
The attendance problem at UC Berkeley has not received any attention. Firstly, students are easily able to fake their attendance by sending Google Form sign-in links and Top Hat codes to their friends who are skipping class. Although using TopHat and Google Forms are feasible options in very small class... | ## Inspiration
Almost all undergraduate students, especially at large universities like the University of California Berkeley, will take a class that has a huge lecture format, with several hundred students listening to a single professor speak. At Berkeley, students (including three of us) took CS61A, the introductor... | ## Inspiration
Drawing inspiration from our personal academic journeys and identifying challenges faced by fellow students, we wanted to create a solution that resonated with students seeking motivation tailored to their unique circumstances. Reflecting on our own experiences, we acknowledged that attendance struggles... | partial |
## Our Inspiration
We all know how frustrating slow wifi is. When making a major decision such as buying a home, having accurate information about network speed can make all the difference. More subtle variations in network strength also have huge impacts in our increasingly internet driven world. Weak, inconsistent c... | ## 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
It all began when 3 Canadians adopted an American. In light of recent events in the States, the Canadians decided to help struggling Americans choose their new properties.
## What it does
MAPHOME aids customers in choosing ideal locations in which to invest. It does so by analyzing information from va... | winning |
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