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## 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 In traditional finance, banks often swap cash flows from their assets for a fixed period of time. They do this because they want to hold onto their assets long-term, but believe their counter-party's assets will outperform their own in the short-term. We decided to port this over to DeFi, specifically U...
## 🪐 Inspiration 🪐 As four female developers, we wanted to create a hack that could make a noticeable difference in the world and still be enticing enough to use. We all felt drawn to the concept of helping women gain financial independence, so Plan It Girlboss was born. Specifically, we wanted to target younger wo...
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## 💡 Inspiration 💡 So many people around the world are fatally injured and require admission to multiple hospitals in order to receive life-changing surgery/procedures. When patients are transferred from one hospital to another, it is crucial for their medical information to be safely transferred as well. ## ❓ What...
## Inspiration So, like every Hackathon we’ve done in the past, we wanted to build a solution based on the pain points of actual, everyday people. So when we decided to pursue the Healthtech track, we called the nurses and healthcare professionals in our lives. To our surprise, they all seemed to have the same gripe –...
## Inspiration 💡 **HERMES** was inspired by the urgent need to address multiple critical issues plaguing the healthcare industry, with a primary focus on improving the lives of individuals and communities. The following key factors served as driving forces: 1. **Inequity in Healthcare Access:** Across the world, dis...
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## Inspiration At many public places, recycling is rarely a priority. Recyclables are disposed of incorrectly and thrown out like garbage. Even here at QHacks2017, we found lots of paper and cans in the [garbage](http://i.imgur.com/0CpEUtd.jpg). ## What it does The Green Waste Bin is a waste bin that can sort the it...
## Inspiration Every year roughly 25% of recyclable material is not able to be recycled due to contamination. We set out to reduce the amount of things that are needlessly sent to the landfill by reducing how much people put the wrong things into recycling bins (i.e. no coffee cups). ## What it does This project is ...
## Inspiration * Manual sorting of garbage is a difficult and expensive process and the global waste for recyclable materials has significantly increased over the years. * It is projected by the World Bank that in 2050, the world will generate 3.4 billion tons of waste per year which is a 70% increase compared to 2023...
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## Off The Grid Super awesome offline, peer-to-peer, real-time canvas collaboration iOS app # Inspiration Most people around the world will experience limited or no Internet access at times during their daily lives. We could be underground (on the subway), flying on an airplane, or simply be living in areas where In...
## Inspiration We are a team of goofy engineers and we love making people laugh. As Western students (and a stray Waterloo engineer), we believe it's important to have a good time. We wanted to make this game to give people a reason to make funny faces more often. ## What it does We use OpenCV to analyze webcam inpu...
## Background Collaboration is the heart of humanity. From contributing to the rises and falls of great civilizations to helping five sleep deprived hackers communicate over 36 hours, it has become a required dependency in the [git@ssh.github.com](mailto:git@ssh.github.com):**hacker/life**. Plowing through the weeken...
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## The Problem: Inspired by our teammates' lack of knowledge in first aid administration, we address a gap in emergency medical response time for remote and underserviced locations. Currently, it takes 7 minutes for emergency medical services (EMS) to reach the scene, with the time in rural areas doubling to 14 minute...
# **MedKnight** #### Professional medical care in seconds, when the seconds matter ## Inspiration Natural disasters often put emergency medical responders (EMTs, paramedics, combat medics, etc.) in positions where they must assume responsibilities beyond the scope of their day-to-day job. Inspired by this reality, w...
## Inspiration Last year we did a project with our university looking to optimize the implementation of renewable energy sources for residential homes. Specifically, we determined the best designs for home turbines given different environments. In this project, we decided to take this idea of optimizing the implementa...
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## Inspiration The classroom experience has *drastically* changed over the years. Today, most students and professors prefer to conduct their course organization and lecture notes electronically. Although there are applications that enabled a connected classroom, none of them are centered around measuring students' un...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project stems from the well-established effectiveness of focusing on one task at a time, as opposed to multitasking. In today's era of online learning, students often find themselves navigating through various sources like lectures, articles, and notes, all while striving to abs...
## Inspiration Many of us had class sessions in which the teacher pulled out whiteboards or chalkboards and used them as a tool for teaching. These made classes very interactive and engaging. With the switch to virtual teaching, class interactivity has been harder. Usually a teacher just shares their screen and talks,...
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# Inspiration Meet one of our teammates, Lainey! Over the past three years, she has spent over 2,000 hours volunteering with youth who attend under-resourced schools in Washington state. During the sudden onset of the pandemic, the rapid school closures ended the state’s Free and Reduced Lunch program for thousands of...
## Inspiration At reFresh, we are a group of students looking to revolutionize the way we cook and use our ingredients so they don't go to waste. Today, America faces a problem of food waste. Waste of food contributes to the acceleration of global warming as more produce is needed to maintain the same levels of demand...
## Inspiration We saw people struggling to open the door to the hacking room. ## What it does We used a chair to prop open the door. ## How I built it We put a chair behind the door to keep it from closing. ## Challenges I ran into Once, I tried to jump over the chair to enter the room and hit my head on the doo...
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## Inspiration A brief recap of the inspiration for Presentalk 1.0: We wanted to make it easier to navigate presentations. Handheld clickers are useful for going to the next and last slide, but they are unable to skip to specific slides in the presentation. Also, we wanted to make it easier to pull up additional infor...
## Inspiration It's easy to zone off in online meetings/lectures, and it's difficult to rewind without losing focus at the moment. It could also be disrespectful to others if you expose the fact that you weren't paying attention. Wouldn't it be nice if we can just quickly skim through a list of keywords to immediately...
## Inspiration Ever found yourself struggling to keep up during a lecture, caught between listening to the professor while scrambling to scribble down notes? It’s all too common to miss key points while juggling the demands of note-taking – that’s why we made a tool designed to do the hard work for you! ## What it do...
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## Inspiration After witnessing the power of collectible games and card systems, our team was determined to prove that this enjoyable and unique game mechanism wasn't just some niche and could be applied to a social activity game that anyone could enjoy or use to better understand one another (taking a note from Cards...
## Inspiration Reflecting on 2020, we were challenged with a lot of new experiences, such as online school. Hearing a lot of stories from our friends, as well as our own experiences, doing everything from home can be very distracting. Looking at a computer screen for such a long period of time can be difficult for man...
## Inspiration Our inspiration is from the challenges individuals face with motivation and accountability, especially when living alone or lacking a supportive community. We wanted to build an environment where task completion is not just a solitary endeavor, but a shared experience. By integrating social elements - t...
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## Inspiration This project was a response to the events that occurred during Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, wildfires in California, and the events that occurred during the monsoon in India this past year. 911 call centers are extremely inefficient in providing actual aid to people due to the unreliability of...
## Inspiration Nowadays, we have been using **all** sorts of development tools for web development, from the simplest of HTML, to all sorts of high-level libraries, such as Bootstrap and React. However, what if we turned back time, and relived the *nostalgic*, good old times of programming in the 60s? A world where th...
*Inspiration* One of the most important roles in our current society is the one taken by the varying first responders who ensure the safety of the public through many different means. Innovation which could help these first responders would always be favourable for society as it would follow from this innovation that ...
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## Inspiration As university computer engineering coders, we consistently face significant pressure. Our project serves as a constructive outlet during leisure time, providing an opportunity to alleviate stress when life becomes challenging, allowing users to engage in smashing on a wooden board. ## What it does Our...
## Inspiration We are college students who occasionally (often) miss our lectures and end up watching the recorded versions of the lectures. We wanted to devise a better way to use recorded videos to study, so we created Waffle! ## What it does Waffle turns a video into a custom chatbot -- Users can ask questions ab...
## Inspiration Sustainability is one of the core pillars of modern progress. We wanted to address this challenge by thinking about how we could allow for substantial improvement in sustainability by optimizing an existing system. That's why we landed on LLMs: their **meteoric rise in popularity** has changed the way m...
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## Commander Commander, the command launcher for the web. Install it for Firefox [here](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/commander/) and press F2 or Ctrl+E to open it! ## Motivation Having to switch between the keyboard and mouse is painful and wastes time. Commander is an extension to control your br...
## Inspiration There are many productivity apps that each serve a single function, like blocking unwanted websites or tracking tasks. We wanted to create an all in one extension that you could use to manage all of your productivity needs ## What it does Our extension has a pomodoro timer, a task manager, site blocki...
## Inspiration After hearing a representative from **Private Internet Access** describe why internet security is so important, we wanted to find a way to simply make commonly used messaging platforms more secure for sharing sensitive and private information. ## What it does **Mummify** provides in-browser text encry...
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## Inspiration For my project I wanted to see if I could use state of the art machine learning and crowd sourcing methods to make something not only innovative and exciting, but also fun and whimsical. Although I'm not artistically talented, I like doodling, whether it's when I'm supposed to be paying attention in a ...
## Inspiration The system was Mostafa's idea. In a world with transparency has become more of a public concern in recent years, it was important to provide a medium to hold charities accountable for the money they received in good faith, and to encourage people with the means to donate. ## What it does Project Glass...
## Inspiration: The single biggest problem and bottleneck in training large AI models today is compute. Just within the past week, Sam Altman tried raising an $8 trillion dollar fund to build a large network of computers for training larger multimodal models.
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## Inspiration We were inspired by [Radish](https://radish.coop), one of this year's sponsors for McHacks10, a food delivery service whose mission is to bring forth a more equitable relationship between restaurateurs, delivery drivers and consumers. We wanted to create a place where people can learn and understand oth...
## 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...
Team channel #43 Team discord users - Sarim Zia #0673, Elly #2476, (ASK), rusticolus #4817, Names - Vamiq, Elly, Sarim, Shahbaaz ## Inspiration When brainstorming an idea, we concentrated on problems that affected a large population and that mattered to us. Topics such as homelessness, food waste and a clean environm...
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## Inspiration With an increasing demand for therapists and mental health services and a limited supply of these resources, mental health has become a growing issue plaguing Canada, especially our youth. An estimated 1.6 million children and teenagers suffer from mental health issues, yet only 20% will receive adequat...
## Inspiration We looked at some of the sponsored prizes for some ideas as to what our hackathon project could be about, and we noticed that TELUS would be sponsoring a prize for a mental health related project. We thought that this would be an excellent idea, especially so due to the current situation. Because of the...
## Inspiration As students, we understand the stress that builds up in our lives. Furthermore, we know how important it is to reflect on the day and plan how to improve for tomorrow. It might be daunting to look for help from others, but wouldn't an adorable dino be the perfect creature to talk to your day about? Cute...
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## Inspiration With the recent Supreme Court decision to reject the North Carolina state legislature's redistricting, we desired to inform and engage our fellow citizens with data visualizations and redistricting simulation. ## What it does Through mesh simplification with Bresenham's line algorithm, the app can com...
## *OneVote can change the world.* ## What it does While we see our generation more informed and engaged in politics than ever, millennials and us Gen Z often fail to actually show up to the polls. A recent poll found only 28% of young adults 18–29 were certain they’d vote in the midterms, vs 74% of seniors. Our futu...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create this site to raise the importance of being a global citizen in our modern world. Our biggest goal was to create a site that would achieve just that. ## What it does Our site serves as a beacon of knowledge for those looking for an educational tool or more importantly, those ...
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## Inspiration My colleagues and parents inspired me to build this project Introduction :- Restaurant is a kind of business that serves people all over the world with ready made food. Many restaurants have a lot of difficulty in managing the business such as customer ordering and reservation of tables. By using manua...
## Inspiration Therapy should be as acceptable as any other doctor's appointment. Physical and mental health go hand in hand at maintaining an overall well-being of a person. Moreover, the [rising levels](https://www.healthline.com/health-news/millennial-depression-on-the-rise) of depression and other mental disorders...
## Inspiration We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students ## What it does The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid. #...
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## Inspiration Giphy prize, rarjpeg steganography. ## What it does You write a message and select a Giphy GIF to hide the message in. The app produces an identical GIF with the message hidden inside it. ## How I built it It's a client-side single-page web app. It uses a peculiarity of the GIF format to embed the t...
## Inspiration > > As a group of mostly women, we all collectively noticed that due to our passive and introverted personalities, we struggle with confronting others about the money they owe us. A friend had shared with us an article that women tend to agree to more in the workplace, mundane activities, and tend to st...
## Inspiration We both came to the hackathon without a team and couldn't generate ideas about our project in the Hackathon. So we went to 9gag to look into memes and it suddenly struck us to make an Alexa skill that generates memes. The idea sounded cool and somewhat within our skill-sets so we went forward with it. W...
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## Inspiration * Web3 is in it's static phase. Contracts are not dynamic. You call a contract, it performs an action and it stops. This is similar to the read-only version of web2. Web2 became dynamic with the advent of APIs and webhooks. Apps could call each other, share events and trigger actions. This is missing in...
# Ether on a Stick Max Fang and Philip Hayes ## What it does Ether on a Stick is a platform that allows participants to contribute economic incentives for the completion of arbitrary tasks. More specifically, it allows participants to pool their money into a smart contract that will pay out to a specified target if ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by how there were many instances of fraud with regards to how donations were handled. It is heartbreaking to see how mismanagement can lead to victims of disasters not receiving the help that they desperately need. ## What it does TrustTrace introduces unparalleled levels of transpare...
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We were inspired by teenagers and adults who have so much free time but don't do anything good with it! Our application asks the user for when he/she is free and then offers activities tailored for that individual. We used android native technologies and web services to get the data. What was supposed to be a google...
## Inspiration Picture this, I was all ready to go to Yale and just hack away. I wanted to hack without any worry. I wanted to come home after hacking and feel that I had accomplished a functional app that I could see people using. I was not sure if I wanted to team up with anyone, but I signed up to be placed on a UM...
## Inspiration During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w...
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# Hungr.ai Hungr.ai Hippos Our HackWestern IV project which makes hungry hungry hippo even cooler. ## Milestones ![Hippo servo works for the first time!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohs7XuaLgNsrJbila/giphy.gif) ![Hippos eat the balls for the first time!! Yipee!](https://media.giphy.com/media/xT0xeljtvMFDP0po2c/gi...
## Inspiration This game was inspired by the classical game of connect four, in which one inserts disks into a vertical board to try to get four in a row. As big fans of the game, our team sought to improve it by adding new features. ## What it does The game is played like a regular game of connect four, except each...
## Inspiration The most important part in any quality conversation is knowledge. Knowledge is what ignites conversation and drive - knowledge is the spark that gets people on their feet to take the first step to change. While we live in a time where we are spoiled by the abundance of accessible information, trying to ...
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## Inspiration \*\*\* SEE GITHUB LINK FOR BOTH DEMO VIDEOS (Devpost limits to only one video) \*\*\* Taking care of plants is surprisingly hard. Let's be honest here - almost everybody we know has lost a plant or two (or many) due to poor maintenance. Appliances and tools within our homes are adopting the newest tech...
## Inspiration Inspired by [SIU Carbondale's Green Roof](https://greenroof.siu.edu/siu-green-roof/), we wanted to create an automated garden watering system that would help address issues ranging from food deserts to lack of agricultural space to storm water runoff. ## What it does This hardware solution takes in mo...
## Inspiration It’s insane how the majority of the U.S. still looks like **endless freeways and suburban sprawl.** The majority of Americans can’t get a cup of coffee or go to the grocery store without a car. What would America look like with cleaner air, walkable cities, green spaces, and effective routing from plac...
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## Inspiration We are students from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. **Nashville, aka music city,** is also one of the most dangerous cities in the US. It ranks #15 last year for its crime rate. Violent Crime Rate = 1,101/per 100,000 people. 10 days ago, we went to a hookah bar very close to Vanderbilt, we did no...
Inspiration: The recent surge in criminal activity on university grounds inspired our team to develop a solution to tackle student concerns. We aimed to empower students with a tool that would allow them to quickly request for assistance from peers in case of an emergency, fostering a safer atmosphere on campus. What ...
## 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...
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## 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: 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...
# TextMemoirs ## nwHacks 2023 Submission by Victor Parangue, Kareem El-Wishahy, Parmvir Shergill, and Daniel Lee Journalling is a well-established practice that has been shown to have many benefits for mental health and overall well-being. Some of the main benefits of journalling include the ability to reflect on one...
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## Inspiration Our project was inspired by the everyday challenges patients face, from remembering to take their medication to feeling isolated in their health journey. We saw the need for a solution that could do more than just manage symptoms—it needed to support patients emotionally, help prevent medication mistake...
## Inspiration Our team really considered the theme of **Connectivity**, and what it feels like to be connected. That got us to thinking about games we used to be able to play that involved contact such as Tag, Assassin, etc. We decided to see if we could create an **upgraded** spin on these games that would be timele...
## Inspiration When attending crowded lectures or tutorials, it's fairly difficult to discern content from other ambient noise. What if a streamlined pipeline existed to isolate and amplify vocal audio while transcribing text from audio, and providing general context in the form of images? Is there any way to use this...
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## Inspiration We created AR World to make AR more accessible for everyone. Through the mobile app, any static image in the real world is instantly replaced by a video. Through the web app, users can upload any image and video pair to be replaced in real-time. The end result is a world where movie posters turn into tr...
## Inspiration The purchase of goods has changed drastically over the past decade, especially over the period of the pandemic. Although with these online purchases comes a drawback, the buyer can not see the product in front of them before buying it. This adds an element of uncertainty and undesirability to online sho...
## Inspiration * Inspired by issues pertaining to present day social media that focus on more on likes and views as supposed to photo-sharing + We wanted to connect people on the internet and within communities in a positive, immersive experience * Bring society closer together rather than push each other away ## Wh...
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## Inspiration Every project aims to solve a problem, and to solve people's concerns. When we walk into a restaurant, we are so concerned that not many photos are printed on the menu. However, we are always eager to find out what a food looks like. Surprisingly, including a nice-looking picture alongside a food item i...
## 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 * None of my friends wanted to do an IOS application with me so I built an application to find friends to hack with * I would like to reuse the swiping functionality in another personal project ## What it does * Create an account * Make a profile of skills, interests and languages * Find matches to ha...
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## Inspiration One of our own member's worry about his puppy inspired us to create this project, so he could keep an eye on him. ## What it does Our app essentially monitors your dog(s) and determines their mood/emotional state based on their sound and body language, and optionally notifies the owner about any chang...
Demo: <https://youtu.be/cTh3Q6a2OIM?t=2401> ## Inspiration Fun Mobile AR Experiences such as Pokemon Go ## What it does First, a single player hides a virtual penguin somewhere in the room. Then, the app creates hundreds of obstacles for the other players in AR. The player that finds the penguin first wins! ## How...
## Inspiration Coming into DeltaHacks, we wanted to build something that would improve the delivery of education to people who require different learning strategies. We decided to focus on students with ADHD. People with ADHD are able to focus, but only for a short period of time before they get distracted. Our extens...
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## Inspiration While we were brainstorming for ideas, we realized that two of our teammates are international students from India also from the University of Waterloo. Their inspiration to create this project was based on what they had seen in real life. Noticing how impactful access to proper healthcare can be, and h...
## Inspiration In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta...
## Inspiration Not wanting to keep moving my stuff around all the time while moving between SF and Waterloo, Canada. ## What it does It will call a Postmate to pick up your items, which will then be delivered to our secure storage facility. The Postmate will be issued a one time use code for the lock to our facility...
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## What it does Danstrument lets you video call your friends and create music together using only your actions. You can start a call which generates a code that your friend can use to join. ## How we built it We used Node.js to create our web app which employs WebRTC to allow video calling between devices. Movements...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
## Inspiration As time goes on, you and your friends go down different paths in life. The days when you all played games at your house are long in the past. We want to bring people back to these games. **Arcade Dancer** is a spin on **Just Dance**, reminiscing the Wii days while playing nostalgic songs. Wanna go to th...
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# Inspiration Living alone in the city has made us very lonely people. We decided that the perfect way to amend this problem was to program a companion. # What it does The companion, Bob will get hungry, unhappy, sick and poop; if is up to the user to keep him from dying from neglection. # How we built it Using an...
## Inspiration Once I heard about Velostat, I knew I had to do something with it. I have come up with so many ideas for projects, but this is the first time I have had a chance to use it. This project is a first step into the pressure sensitive world of Velostat. ## What it does A matrix of wires across the Velostat...
# **Cough It** #### COVID-19 Diagnosis at Ease ## Inspiration As the pandemic has nearly crippled all the nations and still in many countries, people are in lockdown, there are many innovations in these two years that came up in order to find an effective way of tackling the issues of COVID-19. Out of all the proble...
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## Inspiration There is a growing number of people sharing gardens in Montreal. As a lot of people share apartment buildings, it is indeed more convenient to share gardens than to have their own. ## What it does With that in mind, we decided to create a smart garden platform that is meant to make sharing gardens as ...
## Inspiration After learning about the current shortcomings of disaster response platforms, we wanted to build a modernized emergency services system to assist relief organizations and local governments in responding faster and appropriately. ## What it does safeFront is a cross between next-generation 911 and disa...
## Inspiration We wanted to take away the stresses of all plant parents around the world. Leaving your plant children at home without any water while you vacation in the Bahamas - every plant parents worst nightmare! However, we have a solution! According to Statistics Canada, there were approximately 885.58 million ...
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# SWYPE ## Inspiration At the start of this Hackathon, our team had no idea what to code. As such, we decided to think about a more pressing matter of what we wanted to eat that night. That's when we realized we had no clue. We pulled up UberEats and were overwhelmed with so many options and thought that it would be ...
## Inspiration It is estimated that 5700 children become orphans each day and this number would only increase during the pandemic. Harshil was inspired by Instant Family which inspired him to want to help tackle this problem by creating Bubble. An app that allow various organizations to be on one platform and allow fa...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
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## Inspiration After the political unrest in Catalonia, Spain, where voting for the independence referendum was disrupted by police, we decided that the polling system of today needs a dramatic overhaul. Traditional voting systems are 1) centralized, 2) non-anonymous, and 3) vulnerable to fraud. Blockchain technology,...
# Ether on a Stick Max Fang and Philip Hayes ## What it does Ether on a Stick is a platform that allows participants to contribute economic incentives for the completion of arbitrary tasks. More specifically, it allows participants to pool their money into a smart contract that will pay out to a specified target if ...
## See our live demo! **On Rinkeby testnet blockchain (recommended):** <https://rinkeby.kelas.dev> **On xDAI blockchain (Warning: uses real money):** <https://xdai.kelas.dev> ## Check out our narrative StoryMaps here! **Greenery in your Community:** <https://arcg.is/1vu448> **Culture & Diversity in choosing your H...
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## Inspiration There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1...
## Inspiration Meet Doctor DoDo. He is a medical practioner, and he has a PhD degree in EVERYTHING! Dr. DoDo is here to take care of you, and make sure you do-do your homework! Two main problems arise with virtual learning: It's hard to verify if somebody understands content without seeing their facial expressions/b...
## Inspiration All three teammates had independently converged on an idea of glasses with subtitles for the world around you. After we realized the impracticality of the idea (how could you read subtitles an inch from your eye without technology that we didn't have access to?) we flipped it around: instead of subtitle...
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## 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 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...
## Inspiration We, as all students do, frequently and unwillingly fall to the powers of procrastination. This invention is for when the little cute Pomodoro and Screen Time reminders are a tad too easy to ignore. ## What it does The device sits in a predetermined area that you would not want to be in order to focus....
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Presentation Link: <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_4Yy5c729_TXS8N55qw7Bi1yjCicuOIpnx2LxYniTlY/edit?usp=sharing> SHORT DESCRIPTION (Cohere generated this) Enjoy music from the good old days? your playlist will generate songs from your favourite year (e.g. 2010) and artist (e.g. Linkin Park) ## Inspiration W...
## Inspiration Music is something inherently personal to each and every one of us - our favorite tracks accompany us through our highs and lows, through tough workouts and relaxing evenings. Our aim is to encourage and capture that feeling of discovering that new song you just can't stop listening to. Music is an auth...
## Inspiration Our idea was inspired by our group's shared interest in musical composition, as well as our interests in AI models and their capabilites. The concept that inspired our project was: "*What if life had a soundtrack?*" ## What it does AutOST generates and produces a constant stream of original live music...
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## Inspiration As more and more blockchains transition to using Proof of Stake as their primary consensus mechanism, the importance of validators becomes more apparent. The security of entire digital economies, people's assets, and global currencies rely on the security of the chain, which at its core is guaranteed by...
## 💡 Inspiration The objective of our application is to devise an effective and efficient written transmission optimization scheme, by converting esoteric text into an exoteric format. If you read the above sentence more than once and the word ‘huh?’ came to mind, then you got my point. Jargon causes a problem when ...
## Inspiration Our core idea revolves around the concept of providing private layers for Large Language Models (LLMs). We believe that privacy is essential in today's data-driven world, and centralized solutions are not sufficient. Our inspiration stems from envisioning a future where anyone can deploy their own Anony...
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## Inspiration I wanted to create a game that had a unique premise and controls. ## What it does A puzzle game that has the player control four characters at once. ## How I built it I used Python along with Pygame to complete this project. ## Challenges I ran into At first I attempted to use Unity to complete th...
## Inspiration We wanted to build a shooter that many friends could play together. We didn't want to settle for something that was just functional, so we added the craziest game mechanic we could think of to maximize the number of problems we would run into: a map that has no up or down, only forward. The aesthetic of...
## Inspiration Old-school text adventure games. ## What it does You play as Jack and get to make choices to advance the adventure. There are several possible paths to the story and you will come across obstacles and games along the way. ## How I built it Using Python. ## Challenges I ran into Trying to use Tkint...
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## Inspiration At Save A Bite, we connect local restaurants, grocery stores and farmers with those in need, offering surplus food at reduced prices. ## What it does Save A Bite connects local restaurants and grocery stores with individuals facing food insecurity, allowing users to discover and reserve surplus food a...
## Inspiration There were times when I, my household, or my club had much leftover food that we were able to give away to students. There were also times when we were not able to give it away. :( Our team built a web application that makes it easy for community members with surplus food to give it away to someone in n...
## Inspiration With billions of tons of food waste occurring in Canada every year. We knew that there needs to exist a cost-effective way to reduce food waste that can empower restaurant owners to make more eco-conscious decisions while also incentivizing consumers to choose more environmentally-friendly food options....
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Duet's music generation revolutionizes how we approach music therapy. We capture real-time brainwave data using Emotiv EEG technology, translating it into dynamic, personalized soundscapes live. Our platform, backed by machine learning, classifies emotional states and generates adaptive music that evolves with your min...
# Links Youtube: <https://youtu.be/VVfNrY3ot7Y> Vimeo: <https://vimeo.com/506690155> # Soundtrack Emotions and music meet to give a unique listening experience where the songs change to match your mood in real time. ## Inspiration The last few months haven't been easy for any of us. We're isolated and getting stuc...
### 💭 Inspiration We realized the need for an on-demand snow removal service after helping an elderly neighbor clean her steps and driveway. The idea came to us as we saw the struggle and frustration she was having due to the overwhelming amount of snow that hadn't been cleaned which was preventing her from leaving h...
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## 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 As university students, we and our peers have found that our garbage and recycling have not been taken by the garbage truck for some unknown reason. They give us papers or stickers with warnings, but these get lost in the wind, chewed up by animals, or destroyed because of the weather. For homeowners or...
## Inspiration We were inspired to build this project after accumalating trash in our workspace during the first few hours of this hackathon. ## What it does We developed an app which you can upload or take a photo of any disposable item and it will tell you what kind of disposable it is and the action you should ta...
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## Lejr **Introduction** A web application that allows you to track how much money your friends owe you, and after your friend accepts your request of paying you back, the app will directly deposit the money into your bank account. **How we did it** We built the website using Interac's Public API and MongoDB hosted...
## Inspiration Have you ever gone on a nice dinner out with friends, only to find that the group is too big for your server to split the bills according to each person's order? Someone inevitably decides to pay for the whole group and asks everyone to pay them back afterwards, but this doesn't always happen right away...
## Inspiration When struggling to learn HTML, and basic web development. The tools provided by browsers like google chrome were hidden making hard to learn of its existence. As an avid gamer, we thought that it would be a great idea to create a game involving the inspect element tool provided by browsers so that more ...
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## Inspiration The time we spend on computers is increasing exponentially, and we have stored much personal and sensitive information online for convenience. However, most of the companies and agencies that we trust to handle and store our data are very prone to data breaches. Blockchain is created to eliminate centra...
## Inspiration As more legal COVID-19 vaccines are produced, more fraudulent vaccines are being sold to unknowing customers. In February 2021, three men in Baltimore were arrested for posing as a Moderna website and trying to sell fraudulent vaccines. The problem is relevant globally rather than just in the United St...
## Inspiration There are 1.1 billion people without Official Identity (ID). Without this proof of identity, they can't get access to basic financial and medical services, and often face many human rights offences, due the lack of accountability. The concept of a Digital Identity is extremely powerful. In Estonia, for...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for developing the Cov-Misinfo Tracker was twofold: the first being the lack of resources related to determining root causes of health-related misinformation that we see online, which is particularly evident with COVID-19, and the second was our own drive to educate people about the pand...
## Inspiration Social media has been shown in studies that it thrives on emotional and moral content, particularly angry in nature. In similar studies, these types of posts have shown to have effects on people's well-being, mental health, and view of the world. We wanted to let people take control of their feed and ga...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Ecoleafy was inspired by the desire to create a sustainable and energy-efficient future. With the increasing need for smart homes, the team saw an opportunity to build a system that could help households reduce and be more aware of their carbon footprint and save on energy costs. The members of our team...
## Inspiration We wanted to make energy monitoring accessible and simple and allow the user to develop greater total control over their energy consumption. ## What it does We have built a cloud-enabled meter that measures energy consumption per appliance. It allows all the ## How we built it We have built the mete...
## Inspiration It’s Friday afternoon, and as you return from your final class of the day cutting through the trailing winds of the Bay, you suddenly remember the Saturday trek you had planned with your friends. Equipment-less and desperate you race down to a nearby sports store and fish out $$$, not realising that the...
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## 💡 Inspiration Manga are Japanese comics, considered to form a genre unique from other graphic novels. Similar to other comics, it lacks a musical component. However, their digital counterparts (such as sites like Webtoons) have innovated on their take on the traditional format with the addition of soundtracks, pla...
## 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...
## Inspiration ## What it does The SmartBox Delivery Service allows independent couriers and their customers to easily deliver and securely receive packages. The delivery person starts by scanning the package, and the system opens and reserves a SmartBox for them, for every package they scan. When they deliver the pa...
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## Inspiration I was inspired by popular sites like couchsurfing.com that let people traveling Europe stay with hosts. In this case, rather than a service with monetary compensation, the service is provided for those who have been affected by natural disasters. The guests may wish to tip as much as they want and are a...
## Inspiration A member of our team was directly affected by the wildfires in California last quarter. Having experienced firsthand this extremely stressful situation, he acknowledged the need for an easy way for people fleeing large-scale natural disaster find safe havens. ## What it does Our app aims to connect pe...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the numerous Facebook posts, Slack messages, WeChat messages, emails, and even Google Sheets that students at Stanford create in order to coordinate Ubers/Lyfts to the airport as holiday breaks approach. This was mainly for two reasons, one being the safety of sharing a ride with oth...
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## Inspiration Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest. ## What it Does It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart...
![alt text](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974437158834282577/974980085201387540/unknown.png) ## 💡INSPIRATION💡 Our team is from Ontario and BC, two provinces that have been hit HARD by the opioid crisis in Canada. Over **4,500 Canadians under the age of 45** lost their lives through overdosing during 2021, ...
## Inspiration Inspired by [SIU Carbondale's Green Roof](https://greenroof.siu.edu/siu-green-roof/), we wanted to create an automated garden watering system that would help address issues ranging from food deserts to lack of agricultural space to storm water runoff. ## What it does This hardware solution takes in mo...
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## Inspiration Navigating Vancouver's roads can be challenging for someone unfamiliar with the area, making it difficult to find a suitable place to enjoy playing your sports in a competitive yet casual setting. While there is a gym on campus, the basketball court is consistently occupied. Thus, nobody wishes to wait ...
## Inspiration After experiencing the futility of trying to use Facebook groups or messenger to set up pickup basketball games at the RSF, we thought that we should help connect students to other students that are available at given times to also play any given sport. ## What it does StreetUp currently does not have...
### Table Number **343** ## Inspiration One of our team members, Zi, used to work for Tim Hortons. He was tired of waiting for his manager to post the weekly schedules on the corkboard in the staff room. He was tired of having to wait until he came to work to find out about his next week's schedule, he was tired of t...
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## Inspiration Productivity is hard to harness especially at hackathons with many distractions, but a trick we software developing students found to stay productive while studying was using the “Pomodoro Technique”. The laptop is our workstation and could be a source of distraction, so what better place to implement t...
## 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 In a world where finance is extremely important, everyone needs access to **banking services**. Citizens within **third world countries** are no exception, but they lack the banking technology infrastructure that many of us in first world countries take for granted. Mobile Applications and Web Portals d...
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## Inspiration The inspiration behind the DataSherlock came from a desire to make data analysis and exploration more accessible and interactive for users. We wanted to create a virtual assistant that could not only answer data analysis questions but also generate visualizations and insights, simplifying the process of...
## Inspiration As a researcher at a Yale cancer bio lab, I repeatedly found my time spent browsing large data files to perform routine analyses. This process was tedious, but became even more time-consuming when sharing results with colleagues who would also need to download and interact with the data. At startups and...
## Inspiration False news. False news. False news everywhere. Before reading your news article in depth, let us help you give you a brief overview of what you'll be ingesting. ## What it does Our Google Chrome extension will analyze the news article you're about to read and give you a heads up on some on the article...
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## Inspiration We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin...
## Inspiration As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone...
## Inspiration Did you know that minority groups, on average, have between 9 and 16 percent lower financial literacy scores compared to Caucasians? Additionally, a study conducted by Ohio State University found that an immigrant status lowers financial literacy exam scores by about 27 percent. Learning something new c...
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## Inspiration Our hack was inspired by CANSOFCOM's "Help Build a Better Quantum Computer Using Orqestra-quantum library". Our team was interested in exploring quantum computing so it was a natural step to choose this challenge. ## What it does We implemented a Zapata QuantumBackend called PauliSandwichBackend to pe...
## Inspiration We are a group of friends who are interested in cryptography and Bitcoin in general but did not have a great understanding. However, attending Sonr's panel gave us a lot of inspiration because they made the subject more digestible and easier to understand. We also wanted to do something similar but add ...
## Inspiration So as you know data breaching is so common nowadays, any hacker can read and change your data while you are communicating with the receiver. The intruder can manipulate the data which can be very harmful in some cases. Hence to avoid this intruder to read or modify the data I made this app with which pe...
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## Inspiration With over 1.25 million road traffic deaths occurring each year and drunk driving accounting for about 40% of that, impaired driving is a very prevalent issue today that endangers not only the driver but innocent bystanders as well. With Ontario reopening from the COVID lockdown, there is a high chance t...
## Inspiration Our inspiration came from how we are all relatively new drivers and terrified of busy intersections. Although speed is extremely important to transport from one spot to another, safety should always be highlighted when it comes to the road because car accidents are the number one cause of death in the w...
## Inspiration According to the Canadian Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, in Canada, an average of 4 people are killed every day as a result of impaired driving. In 2019, there were 1,346 deaths caused by impaired driving, which represents approximately 30% of all traffic-related deaths in Canada. Impaired dr...
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# Signal We tried to build a leap motion application that allowed deaf users to use sign language to communicate. # What does the service do? So far, we've gotten A, B, C, and D done (with some success). We learnt quite a lot over the last 16 hours, learning how to use the Leap Motion API, learnt Javascript, and lea...
## Inspiration With apps like DuoLingo, most people have no problem spending time to learn a new language, but few people know sign language. We are a team of Western students looking to break down communication barriers by making sign language everyone's next interactive challenge. ## What it does We use scikit-lea...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
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## Inspiration Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke...
## Inspiration 1 in 2 Canadians will personally experience a mental health issue by age 40, with minority communities at a greater risk. As the mental health epidemic surges and support at its capacity, we sought to build something to connect trained volunteer companions with people in distress in several ways for con...
## 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...
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## 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 snore or get pourd on yo pores Coming into grade 12, the decision of going to a hackathon at this time was super ambitious. We knew coming to this hackathon we needed to be full focus 24/7. Problem being, we both procrastinate and push things to the last minute, so in doing so we created a project to he...
## Inspiration I like looking at things. I do not enjoy bad quality videos . I do not enjoy waiting. My CPU is a lazy fool. He just lays there like a drunkard on new years eve. My poor router has a heart attack every other day so I can stream the latest Kylie Jenner video blog post, or has the kids these days call it,...
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## **opiCall** ## *the line between O.D. and O.K. is one opiCall away* --- ## What it does Private AMBER alerts for either 911 or a naloxone carrying network ## How we built it We used Twilio & Dasha AI to send texts and calls, and Firebase & Swift for the iOS app's database and UI itself. ## Challenges we ran i...
## Inspiration The inspiration came from working with integrated BMCs on server motherboards. These devices are able to control servers remotely without the need of an operating system on the server. This is accomplished by streaming the servers' VGA input and attaching a keyboard via USB. The major pain points about ...
## Inspiration Guardian Angel was born from the need for reliable emergency assistance in an unpredictable world. Our experiences with the elderly, such as our grandparents, who may fall when we’re not around, and the challenges we may face in vulnerable situations motivated us to create a tool that automatically reac...
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## 💡 Inspiration 💯 Have you ever faced a trashcan with a seemingly endless number of bins, each one marked with a different type of recycling? Have you ever held some trash in your hand, desperately wondering if it can be recycled? Have you ever been forced to sort your trash in your house, the different bins taking...
## Inspiration An Article, about 86 per cent of Canada's plastic waste ends up in landfill, a big part due to Bad Sorting. We thought it shouldn't be impossible to build a prototype for a Smart bin. ## What it does The Smart bin is able, using Object detection, to sort Plastic, Glass, Metal, and Paper We see all ar...
## Inspiration Since the days of yore, we have heard how an army of drones is going to bridge the last-mile gap of accessibility in the supply chain of various products for many people in the world. A good example of this can already be seen with Zipline in Rwanda and Ghana, which is already on its way to success with...
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![1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50319868/107144838-d2f8a780-690b-11eb-9055-5ba51c2fa89f.png) ![32323](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50319868/107149268-ac476a80-6925-11eb-8d28-29f23a352e7f.png) ## Inspiration We wanted to truly create a well-rounded platform for learning investing where tran...
## Inspiration ## What it does You can point your phone's camera at a checkers board and it will show you all of the legal moves and mark the best one. ## How we built it We used Android studio to develop an Android app that streams camera captures to a python server that handles ## Challenges we ran into Detecti...
## Inspiration To any financial institution, the most valuable asset to increase revenue, remain competitive and drive innovation, is aggregated **market** and **client** **data**. However, a lot of data and information is left behind due to lack of *structure*. So we asked ourselves, *what is a source of unstructure...
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## Inspiration We wanted to reduce global carbon footprint and pollution by optimizing waste management. 2019 was an incredible year for all environmental activities. We were inspired by the acts of 17-year old Greta Thunberg and how those acts created huge ripple effects across the world. With this passion for a gree...
## Inspiration One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi...
## Inspiration Ever since the creation of department stores, if a customer needed assistance, he or she would have to look for a sales representative. This is often difficult and frustrating as people are constantly on the move. Some companies try to solve this problem by implementing stationary machines such as kiosk...
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# DeskWeb ## Inspiration We want more cool stuff showing up on our desktops. Like, some instagram photos on your feed. ## What it does You write a website, we live-update it to your desktop background. DeskWeb provides an infrastructure that lets you put any website components on your desktop background, agnostic ...
## Inspiration Motivated by the all too well-known feeling of being broke, we wanted to develop a web application that would help university students tackle on crippling student debt. ## What it does *Bill Splitting* For when you want to split the grocery bill your housemates or only want to order **half** the pizza...
## Inspiration For most, the journey of adopting a dog begins with a breeder or a trainer, but our journey began at a rescue shelter, where we met Laverne. Unable to work with a professional trainer due to Laverne's health, we had to take the process into our own hands. That's when we realized just how difficult and t...
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## Inspiration 💥 Let's be honest... Presentations can be super boring to watch—*and* to present. But, what if you could bring your biggest ideas to life in a VR world that literally puts you *in* the PowerPoint? Step beyond slides and into the future with SuperStage! ## What it does 🌟 SuperStage works in 3 simple ...
## Inspiration Public speaking is greatly feared by many, yet it is a part of life that most of us have to go through. Despite this, preparing for presentations effectively is *greatly limited*. Practicing with others is good, but that requires someone willing to listen to you for potentially hours. Talking in front o...
## Inspiration + Impact This project was inspired by a team member’s sibling who underwent cancer treatment, which limited his ability to communicate. American Sign Language (ASL) enabled the family to connect despite extenuating circumstances. Sign language has the power of bringing together hearing, hard-of-hearing,...
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## 1. Problem Statement Design of an AI-based webpage that allows users to use a machine-learning algorithm to determine whether their sitting posture is correct or not. ## 2. Motivation & Objectives Things became online as a result of the Covid pandemic, including office work and student learning. Sitting in front ...
## Inspiration FroggyFlow is inspired by the constant bother of bad posture, back, and shoulder pain which hampers one's productivity. We want to renovate the way people are sitting in front of their laptop, desktop, or other devices while improving their productivity and health through a series of connected activitie...
## Inspiration We built an AI-powered physical trainer/therapist that provides real-time feedback and companionship as you exercise. With the rise of digitization, people are spending more time indoors, leading to increasing trends of obesity and inactivity. We wanted to make it easier for people to get into health a...
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## Inspiration ``` We were inspired to work on this project to serve to aid the miscommunication that's all too present in our world today. Leaders, professors, and authority figures of all shapes and sizes throughout the ages have had to determine their audience's sentiment for one reason or another while they garne...
## 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...
## Inspiration With more people working at home due to the pandemic, we felt empowered to improve healthcare at an individual level. Existing solutions for posture detection are expensive, lack cross-platform support, and often require additional device purchases. We sought to remedy these issues by creating Upright. ...
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## Inspiration Every restaurant ever has the most concise and minimalistic menus. We always found ourselves having to manually research the food and drinks provided, as the only thing we see is text. We wanted a way to automate this process to make it more friendly and less bloated, and we believed we could provide cl...
## Inspiration During a brainstorming session, one of our team members mentioned how they were chased by a goose while walking on campus. *Of course, we decided to take this story to its logical conclusion.* If we could track in real-time where geese were on campus, then perhaps people could avoid getting harassed by...
## Inspiration Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo...
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## Inspiration Climate change is a pressing global issue, primarily driven by carbon emissions. While large corporations are major contributors to this crisis, individual actions cumulatively make a significant impact. Recognizing this, GreenSlip was born out of a desire to empower individuals to monitor and manage th...
## Inspiration I came across a quote that deeply moved me: 'By 2050, a further 24 million children are projected to be undernourished as a result of the climate crisis.' It made me reflect profoundly on the significant impact climate change has on our world." Melting ice caps and glaciers contribute to rising sea leve...
## About the Project ### TLDR: Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori...
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## Inspiration We had realized that some of our favourite movies were surprisingly panned by critics, but had been very popular by general audiences. A large portion of movies had had a poor metascore, but a positive user score were considered to be cult classics, so we decided to build our own search engine and datab...
## Inspiration Looking for hours for a movie to watch with seemingly no end to the random trailers in sight. ## What it does Muru curates a selection of movies based on your likes and dislikes based on an IMDb dataset that finds the cosine similarities between your inputs and other movies based on genres and keyword...
## 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...
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## Inspiration After seeing the breakout success that was Pokemon Go, my partner and I were motivated to create our own game that was heavily tied to physical locations in the real-world. ## What it does Our game is supported on every device that has a modern web browser, absolutely no installation required. You wal...
## Inspiration It’s Friday afternoon, and as you return from your final class of the day cutting through the trailing winds of the Bay, you suddenly remember the Saturday trek you had planned with your friends. Equipment-less and desperate you race down to a nearby sports store and fish out $$$, not realising that the...
## Inspiration Arriving into new places always means starting all over again, including with friends and socializing. It was one lonely night when I had the idea to do something, but didn't ask anyone thinking they would be busy. Turns out they were thinking the same way too! We needed a way to communicate effectively...
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## What is Search and Protect We created a hack that can search through public twitter timeline histories of many people and determine whether they are at a risk of self harm or depression using personality profiling and sentiment analysis. ## How would this be used? Organizations such as the local police or mental ...
## 💡Inspiration * 2020 US Census survey showed that adults were 3x more likely to screen positive for depression or anxiety in 2020 vs 2019 * A 2019 review of 18 papers summarized that wearable data could help identify depression, and coupled with behavioral therapy can help improve mental health * 1 in 5 americans o...
## 💡 Inspiration 💡 Mental health is a growing concern in today's population, especially in 2023 as we're all adjusting back to civilization again as COVID-19 measures are largely lifted. With Cohere as one of our UofT Hacks X sponsors this weekend, we want to explore the growing application of natural language proce...
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## Inspiration Our initial goal is to build something that can spread positivities among people, and something fun for people to use as well. ## What it does It reads sound from a file and analyzes the emotions implicated by the sound of the users. The panda's facial expression is going to change according to the ca...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project was our personal experience of struggling to prepare for public speaking. Whether through previous hackathons, class projects, or poster presentations, we all have had trouble practicing our speeches. The anxiety of public speaking makes it difficult to want to practice ...
## 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...
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## Inspiration As many students are forced to learn remotely, teachers are also trying their best to adapt. One thing they are very limited on, however, is the administration of exams. Each day, students devise new ways to cheat, and my intent is to help prevent that. One method that teachers use for exams is having e...
## Inspiration I've tutored students for many years and very early on, and it quickly became evident that these students were incredibly bright, but they just never asked for clarification in class. Often in tutoring sessions, I am stuck wondering whether a student is confused or not and oftentimes it hinders the prog...
## Inspiration Being introduced to financial strategies, many are skeptical simply because they can't imagine a significant reward for smarter spending. ## What it does * Gives you financial advice based on your financial standing (how many credit cards you have, what the limits are, whether you're married or single...
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## Inspiration 2020 had us indoors more than we'd like to admit and we turned to YouTube cooking videos for solace. From Adam Ragusea to Binging with Babish, these personalities inspired some of us to start learning to cook. The problem with following along with these videos is that you have to keep pausing the video ...
## Inspiration It can be tough coming up with a unique recipe each and every week. Sometimes there are good deals for specific items (especially for university students) and determining what to cook with those ingredients may not be known. *Rad Kitchen says goodbye to last-minute trips to the grocery store and hello t...
## Inspiration In the work from home era, many are missing the social aspect of in-person work. And what time of the workday most provided that social interaction? The lunch break. culina aims to bring back the social aspect to work from home lunches. Furthermore, it helps users reduce their food waste by encouraging ...
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## Inspiration We express emotions in our everyday lives when we communicate with our loved ones, our neighbors, our friends, our local Loblaw store customer service, our doctors or therapists. These emotions can be examined by cues such as gesture, text and facial expressions. The goal of Emotional.AI is to provide a...
## AI, AI, AI... The number of projects using LLMs has skyrocketed with the wave of artificial intelligence. But what if you *were* the AI, tasked with fulfilling countless orders and managing requests in real time? Welcome to chatgpME, a fast-paced, chaotic game where you step into the role of an AI who has to juggle...
## Inspiration TV remotes are ubiquitous. Even more than smartphones, they live in all of our homes, but have largely been abandoned due to the advent of Wifi and Bluetooth. We challenged ourselves to build a hardware hack that anyone would be able use at home using just off-the-shelf parts and without tinkering expe...
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## Inspiration Throughout the 21st century, millions upon millions of people, especially seniors, have lost their lives from medication misuse or missed medicine. According to a study conducted by John Hopkins University, in the United States alone, annually 250 000 people pass away due to medication misuse, missed me...
## Inspiration Taking medication or supplements is a necessary and vital aspect of life, but it can be tedious to count and sort out each type of medication on a weekly or even daily basis. The idea behind pill-e originally stemmed from the fact that many of our peers needed to make frequent visits to their elderly re...
# Pose-Bot ### Inspiration ⚡ **In these difficult times, where everyone is forced to work remotely and with the mode of schools and colleges going digital, students are spending time on the screen than ever before, it not only affects student but also employees who have to sit for hours in front of the screen. Prolon...
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## 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 ...
## Inspiration As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r...
## Inspiration Inspired by mental health needs and the popular app BeReal, we thought it was important for users to have a space to look inwards and reflect on their feelings and support themselves. ## What it does It prompts users to say how they're doing and complete one self care activity. Once that is completed,...
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## Inspiration Trump's statements include some of the most outrageous things said recently, so we wanted to see whether someone could distinguish between a fake statement and something Trump would say. ## What it does We generated statements using markov chains (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain>) that are...
## 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 & Instructions We wanted to somehow guilt people into realizing the state of their bank accounts by showing them progressive picture reminders as their wallpaper. Hopefully, the people who use our app will want to save more and also maybe increase their earnings by investing in stocks, SPROUTING persona...
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## Inspiration To spread the joy of swag collecting. ## What it does A Hack the North Simulator, specifically of the Sponsor Bay on the second floor. The player will explore sponsor booths, collecting endless amounts of swag along the way. A lucky hacker may stumble upon the elusive, exclusive COCKROACH TROPHY, or a...
## Inspiration We wanted to make the interactions with our computers more intuitive while giving people with special needs more options to navigate in the digital world. With the digital landscape around us evolving, we got inspired by scenes in movies featuring Tony Stark, where he interacts with computers within his...
## 💡 Our Mission Create an intuitive game but tough game that gets its players to challenge their speed & accuracy. We wanted to incorporate an active element to the game so that it can be played guilt free! ## 🧠 What it does It shows a sequence of scenes before beginning the game, including the menu and instructi...
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## Inspiration Minecraft has an interesting map mechanic where your character holds a map which "draws itself" while exploring the world. I am also very interested in building a plotter, which is a printer that uses a pen and (XY) gantry to produce images. These ideas seemed to fit together quite well. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration Too many times have broke college students looked at their bank statements and lament on how much money they could've saved if they had known about alternative purchases or savings earlier. ## What it does SharkFin helps people analyze and improve their personal spending habits. SharkFin uses bank sta...
## Inspiration Sometimes in lecture you need to point to something tiny on the presentation but no one really knows what you're pointing to. So we decided to build something that can read where you are pointing using a camera, and points a laser in that direction, which makes engagement in lectures and presentations m...
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## Inspiration In high school, I babysat a 5 year old named Alejandro. Alejandro was one of the **76,000,000** people in 2018 that has been diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. Autism affects each person differently, which is why it is a spectrum, and for Alejandro, this means he is **non-verbal**. If he wanted food he ...
## Inspiration “Emergency” + “Need” = “EmergeNeed” Imagine a pleasant warm Autumn evening, and you are all ready to have Thanksgiving dinner with your family. You are having a lovely time, but suddenly you notice a batch of red welts, swollen lips, and itchy throat. Worried and scared, you rush to the hospital just t...
## Inspiration According to the National Sleep Foundation, about half of U.S. adult drivers admit to consistently getting behind the wheel while feeling drowsy. About 20% admit to falling asleep behind the wheel at some point in the past year – with more than 40% admitting this has happened at least once in their driv...
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# Bugreport *The first morning moving into a new apartment, I’d been hit with the realization that I was sharing my room with unwanted strangers. I’d forgotten to ask my landlord prior to moving in if there were bugs in the apartment, and I got my answer when I woke up in the morning having received countless unwanted...
## Inspiration As a student at university, after first year it is very difficult to find all the information you need to find off campus living, we wanted to solve this problem to help students find the information that they need. There is no central website or collection of information that exists that can aid studen...
## Inspiration When creating R4R, we took into account factors that might shape one's renting needs, such as accessibility, efficiency, and our personal experiences and frustrations as university students trying to rent off-campus housing. R4R is a platform that is meant to support those needs by providing a faster, m...
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## Inspiration There's something about brief glints in the past that just stop you in your tracks: you dip down, pick up an old DVD of a movie while you're packing, and you're suddenly brought back to the innocent and carefree joy of when you were a kid. It's like comfort food. So why not leverage this to make money?...
## Inspiration We are all a fan of Carrot, the app that rewards you for walking around. This gamification and point system of Carrot really contributed to its success. Carrot targeted the sedentary and unhealthy lives we were leading and tried to fix that. So why can't we fix our habit of polluting and creating greenh...
## Inspiration It all started on Galentine's Day when our team found ourselves in a frenzy trying to track down a cake recipe we had seen on Instagram. Despite our best efforts, we couldn't locate the post amidst the sea of saved content across platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. This experience led us to a...
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## Inspiration We really are passionate about hardware, however many hackers in the community, especially those studying software-focused degrees, miss out on the experience of working on projects involving hardware and experience in vertical integration. To remedy this, we came up with modware. Modware provides the t...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a webapp that will help people learn American Sign Language. ## What it does SignLingo starts by giving the user a phrase to sign. Using the user's webcam, gets the input and decides if the user signed the phrase correctly. If the user signed it correctly, goes on to the next phras...
## Inspiration Our inspiration stemmed from the desire to empower the deaf and hard of hearing community by providing them with a more inclusive means of communication. We recognized the importance of American Sign Language (ASL) as a primary mode of communication for many individuals and sought to leverage technology...
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## Inspiration Has your browser ever looked like this? ![](https://i.imgur.com/waCM1K0.png) ... or this? ![](https://i.imgur.com/WX2dTfz.png) Ours have, *all* the time. Regardless of who you are, you'll often find yourself working in a browser on not just one task but a variety of tasks. Whether its classes, projec...
## Inspiration It takes over 9 months to train a guide dog. The issue is: dogs can't talk (sorry). What if your favorite furry friend could not only guide you, but also talk to you — and understand exactly where you need to go? This was the founding idea behind Rex. We were inspired to create a fantastically helpful p...
## Inspiration The inspiration for **Insightbot** came from the growing demand for personalized learning and productivity tools that can support users in managing their tasks and goals more effectively. As students, we often found ourselves struggling to balance multiple responsibilities, while searching for tailored ...
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# **Cough It** #### COVID-19 Diagnosis at Ease ## Inspiration As the pandemic has nearly crippled all the nations and still in many countries, people are in lockdown, there are many innovations in these two years that came up in order to find an effective way of tackling the issues of COVID-19. Out of all the proble...
## Inspiration The RBC challenge pushed us to target the future of the helpdesk. We realized that we could reverse the traditional user to helpdesk to solution pipeline, automating solutions directly to the user with integrations across various services. ## What it does Cura is an all-in-one solution for companies, ...
## Inspiration According to a 2015 study in the American Journal of Infection Control, people touch their faces more than 20 times an hour on average. More concerningly, about 44% of the time involves contact with mucous membranes (e.g. eyes, nose, mouth). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging our populati...
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## Inspiration Students often have a hard time finding complementary co-founders for their ventures/ideas and have limited interaction with students from other universities. Many universities don't even have entrepreneurship centers to help facilitate the matching of co-founders. Furthermore, it is hard to seek valida...
## Inspiration We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution ## What it does I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members. By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe...
## Inspiration **Substandard** food at a **5-star** rated restaurants? We feel you! Yelp or TripAdvisor do not tell the whole story - the ratings you see on these websites say very little about how particular dishes at a restaurant taste like. Therefore, we are here to satisfy your cravings for REAL good dishes. ## W...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for AiTC came from our use of various forms of transportation and our close connections with friends in the aviation industry. Seeing firsthand the complexities and challenges that air traffic controllers face, we wanted to create a solution that could alleviate some of the burdens on ag...
## Inspiration We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output. ## What it does XTS takes an **X** and...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
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## Inspiration We all feel strongly about a wide variety of issues, but often fail to support organizations fighting for causes close to us. Our inspiration for this project was this feeling: we wanted to find a way to encourage donating to nonprofits in the easiest way. What better way to do this than through somethi...
## Inspiration **Read something, do something.** We constantly encounter articles about social and political problems affecting communities all over the world – mass incarceration, the climate emergency, attacks on women's reproductive rights, and countless others. Many people are concerned or outraged by reading abou...
## Inspiration In the past three months, there have been over 60 current events that have resulted in over 200 deaths and have affected over 2 million people. From natural disasters such as Hurricane Dorian and the wildfires burning in the Amazon to events such as the El Paso shooting that prompt discussions around so...
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## Motivation Our motivation was a grand piano that has sat in our project lab at SFU for the past 2 years. The piano was Richard Kwok's grandfathers friend and was being converted into a piano scroll playing piano. We had an excessive amount of piano scrolls that were acting as door stops and we wanted to hear these ...
## **Inspiration:** 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 ...
## Inspiration We wanted to create something like HackerTyper where you can fake being a hacker. Instead, we created *Harmony Hacker*, such that you can fake being a professional piano player with confidence. ## What it does The piano keyboard in our project plays the notes of the MIDI song you select through its sp...
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## Inspiration We wanted to create a fun and easy way for students to sell items on campus. ## What it does Pusheen Sell allows users to browse items currently for sale and sell items of their own. Not only is the app quick and easy to use, but it also gives more information about the items on sale through short vid...
## Inspiration As college students, we didn't know anything, so we thought about how we can change that. One way was by being smarter about the way we take care of our unused items. We all felt that our unused items could be used in better ways through sharing with other students on campus. All of us shared our items ...
## The Vision Nowadays, a lot of universities, including McGill, have facebook groups aimed at exchange and sale of second hand goods from student-to-student. Our vision was to create a mobile e-commerce platform that streamline this process, making it easy to bid, add, and connect sellers / buyers, alongside a 'Best...
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## Inspiration With an ever-increasing rate of crime, and internet deception on the rise, Cyber fraud has become one of the premier methods of theft across the world. From frivolous scams like phishing attempts, to the occasional Nigerian prince who wants to give you his fortune, it's all too susceptible for the commo...
## **1st Place!** ## Inspiration Sign language is a universal language which allows many individuals to exercise their intellect through common communication. Many people around the world suffer from hearing loss and from mutism that needs sign language to communicate. Even those who do not experience these condition...
## Inspiration Every year thousands of companies are compromised and the authentication information for many is stolen. The consequence of such breaches is immense and damages the trust between individuals and organizations. There is significant overhead for an organization to secure it's authentication methods, often...
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## Inspiration IoT devices are extremely useful; however, they come at a high price. A key example of this is a smart fridge, which can cost thousands of dollars. Although many people can't afford this type of luxury, they can still greatly benefit from it. A smart fridge can eliminate food waste by keeping an invento...
## 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 Almost 2.2 million tonnes of edible food is discarded each year in Canada alone, resulting in over 17 billion dollars in waste. A significant portion of this is due to the simple fact that keeping track of expiry dates for the wide range of groceries we buy is, put simply, a huge task. While brainstormi...
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# FireNet: Wildfire Risk Forecaster Try our web-based risk forecasting tool [here](https://kkraoj.users.earthengine.app/view/wildfire-danger). ## Why forecast wildfire risk? Climate change is exacerbating wildfire likelihood and severity in the western USA. For instance, in the state of California, USA, in the last ...
## Inspiration The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes have created a pressing need for reliable, real-time information. Families, NGOs, emergency first responders, and government agencies often struggle to access trustworthy updates quickly, leading to dela...
## Inspiration More than 4.5 million acres of land have burned on the West Coast in the past month alone Experts say fires will worsen in the years to come as climate change spikes temperatures and disrupts precipitation patterns Thousands of families have been and will continue to be displaced by these disasters ## ...
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## Inspiration In a world saturated with information and misinformation, the upcoming 2024 presidential election stands as a testament to our need for clarity and truth. This is where Kaleido steps in. Inspired by the vision of bringing light to the unseen, our mission goes beyond merely summarizing news content. We d...
## Inspiration The three of us believe that our worldview comes from what we read. Online news articles serve to be that engine, and for something so crucial as learning about current events, an all-encompassing worldview is not so accessible. Those new to politics and just entering the discourse may perceive an extre...
# butternut ## `buh·tr·nuht` -- `bot or not?` Is what you're reading online written by a human, or AI? Do the facts hold up? `butternut`is a chrome extension that leverages state-of-the-art text generation models *to combat* state-of-the-art text generation. ## Inspiration Misinformation spreads like wildfire in th...
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## Inspiration We wanted to pioneer the use of computationally intensive image processing and machine learning algorithms for use in low resource robotic or embedded devices by leveraging cloud computing. ## What it does CloudChaser (or "Chase" for short) allows the user to input custom objects for chase to track. T...
## Inspiration Minecraft has an interesting map mechanic where your character holds a map which "draws itself" while exploring the world. I am also very interested in building a plotter, which is a printer that uses a pen and (XY) gantry to produce images. These ideas seemed to fit together quite well. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration Sometimes in lecture you need to point to something tiny on the presentation but no one really knows what you're pointing to. So we decided to build something that can read where you are pointing using a camera, and points a laser in that direction, which makes engagement in lectures and presentations m...
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## Inspiration 2 days before flying to Hack the North, Darryl forgot his keys and spent the better part of an afternoon retracing his steps to find it- But what if there was a personal assistant that remembered everything for you? Memories should be made easier with the technologies we have today. ## What it does A ...
## Inspiration Have you ever met someone, but forgot their name right afterwards? Our inspiration for INFU comes from our own struggles to remember every detail of every conversation. We all deal with moments of embarrassment or disconnection when failing to remember someone’s name or details of past conversations. W...
## Inspiration The inspiration for GithubGuide came from our own experiences working with open-source projects and navigating through complex codebases on GitHub. We realized that understanding the purpose of each file and folder in a repository can be a daunting task, especially for beginners. Thus, we aimed to creat...
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## Inspiration As STEM students, many of us have completed online certification courses on various websites such as Udemy, Codeacademy, Educative, etc. Many classes on these sites provide the user with a unique certificate of completion after passing their course. We wanted to take the authentication of these digital ...
## Inspiration As a team we wanted to pursue a project that we could see as a creative solution to an important issue currently and may have a significant impact for the future. GM's sponsorship challenge provided us with the most exciting problem to tackle - overcoming the limitations in electric vehicle (EV) chargin...
## What inspired us: The pandemic has changed the university norm to being primarily all online courses, increasing our usage and dependency on textbooks and course notes. Since we are all computer science students, we have many math courses with several definitions and theorems to memorize. When listening to a profes...
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## Inspiration Have you ever wished to give a memorable dining experience to your loved ones, regardless of their location? We were inspired by the desire to provide our friends and family with a taste of our favorite dining experiences, no matter where they might be. ## What it does It lets you book and pay for a m...
## Inspiration Studies have shown that music-based interventions may reduce stress-related symptoms, prevalent in many mental and physical health conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and anxiety disorders. Inspired by the potential advantages of auditory stimulation, ♥BeatBops aims to improve music recommendatio...
## INSPIRATION: **Have you ever been on a lunch break at work, or passed by a restaurant and really wanted to try it, but had no one to go with at the time? Have some anxiety about eating alone?** We here at team TableForTwo understand the feeling. So we built an app that helps people find an eating buddy, and potenti...
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## Our Inspiration Every week, researchers invest significant time staying updated with the latest scientific publications. The painstaking process of searching for relevant papers diverts valuable time from their core research activities, potentially hindering scientific advancement. Over a year, this translates into...
## Inspiration One of my team members, Thor, was looking for citations for his psychology research paper while on the bus ride up from SoCal. He had a psychology paper due and as he scrambled to finish the assignment, he struggled to find articles to cite due to the fragmented landscape of paywalled academic journals ...
## 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 ...
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