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Record your happy, sad and motivational moments with our web-app. We hope to help you with your mental health during this time. When things get hard, remind yourself with a happy moment that has happened in your life, and motivate yourself with the goals you have set for yourself! We plan on further develop this site a...
## 💡 Inspiration We got inspiration from or back-end developer Minh. He mentioned that he was interested in the idea of an app that helped people record their positive progress and showcase their accomplishments there. This then led to our product/UX designer Jenny to think about what this app would target as a probl...
## Inspiration Some things can only be understood through experience, and Virtual Reality is the perfect medium for providing new experiences. VR allows for complete control over vision, hearing, and perception in a virtual world, allowing our team to effectively alter the senses of immersed users. We wanted to manipu...
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[project video demo](https://github.com/R1tzG/SignSensei/assets/86858242/40b4d428-f614-4800-8151-0d3d9c74f5af) ## Inspiration In an increasingly interconnected world, one of the most important skills we can acquire is the ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and abilities. American ...
## Inspiration We wanted to promote an easy learning system to introduce verbal individuals to the basics of American Sign Language. Often people in the non-verbal community are restricted by the lack of understanding outside of the community. Our team wants to break down these barriers and create a fun, interactive, ...
### 🌟 Inspiration We're inspired by the idea that emotions run deeper than a simple 'sad' or 'uplifting.' Our project was born from the realization that personalization is the key to managing emotional states effectively. ### 🤯🔍 What it does? Our solution is an innovative platform that harnesses the power of AI a...
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## Inspiration At this stage of our lives, a lot of students haven’t yet developed the financial discipline to save money and tend to be wasteful with their spending. With this app, we hope to design an interface that focuses on minimalism. The app is easy to use and provides users with a visual breakdown of where the...
Welcome to our demo video for our hack “Retro Readers”. This is a game created by our two man team including myself Shakir Alam and my friend Jacob Cardoso. We are both heading into our senior year at Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School and enjoyed participating in our first hackathon ever, Hack The 6ix a tremendous a...
# BananaExpress A self-writing journal of your life, with superpowers! We make journaling easier and more engaging than ever before by leveraging **home-grown, cutting edge, CNN + LSTM** models to do **novel text generation** to prompt our users to practice active reflection by journaling! Features: * User photo --...
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## Inspiration We found that the current price of smart doors on the market is incredibly expensive. We wanted to improve the current technology of smart doors at a fraction of the price. In addition, smart locks are not usually hands free, either requiring the press of a button or going on the User's phone. We wanted...
## Inspiration We wanted to learn about machine learning. There are thousands of sliding doors made by Black & Decker and they're all capable of sending data about the door. With this much data, the natural thing to consider is a machine learning algorithm that can figure out ahead of time when a door is broken, and h...
## Inspiration Tinder but Volunteering ## What it does Connects people to volunteering organizations. Makes volunteering fun, easy and social ## How we built it react for web and react native ## Challenges we ran into So MANY ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Getting a really solid idea and a decent UI #...
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## 📖✈️Inspiration The past year and a half our team has been quarantined in our homes, dreaming about the day in which we would get to travel the world and explore. We made the most of our new lives by studying, working, starting new workout routines, cooking and of course watching ALOT of TikTok. Believe it or not ...
## Inspiration Traveling can often be stressful, with countless variables to consider such as budget, destinations, activities, and personal interests. We aimed to create an app that simplifies travel planning, making it more enjoyable and personalized. Marco.ai was inspired by the need for a comprehensive travel comp...
## Inspiration As a startup founder, it is often difficult to raise money, but the amount of equity that is given up can be alarming for people who are unsure if they want the gasoline of traditional venture capital. With VentureBits, startup founders take a royalty deal and dictate exactly the amount of money they ar...
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![Main Picture](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--3-d7nIu1--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/v1/docs/resources/main_pic.png) ## Project Purpose: Everyone has been in a situation where they need to talk to someone. Whether to unload the burden or ask for trusted advice, but does everyone have ...
## Inspiration🎓 To make the context clear, we are three students who believe that meaningful work facilitates self-content, inspiration and projects that either help others or ourselves. Since we joined university(we are all first-years), we did not find what we did so meaningful anymore. We had great expectations si...
## Inspiration There is a need for an electronic health record (EHR) system that is secure, accessible, and user-friendly. Currently, hundred of EHRs exist and different clinical practices may use different systems. If a patient requires an emergency visit to a certain physician, the physician may be unable to access ...
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## Inspiration dwarf fortress and stardew valley ## What it does simulates farming ## How we built it quickly ## Challenges we ran into learning how to farm ## Accomplishments that we're proud of making a frickin gaem ## What we learned games are hard farming is harder ## What's next for soilio make it be...
# CourseAI: AI-Powered Personalized Learning Paths ## Inspiration CourseAI was born from the challenges of self-directed learning in our information-rich world. We recognized that the issue isn't a lack of resources, but rather how to effectively navigate and utilize them. This inspired us to leverage AI to create pe...
## What it does "ImpromPPTX" uses your computer microphone to listen while you talk. Based on what you're speaking about, it generates content to appear on your screen in a presentation in real time. It can retrieve images and graphs, as well as making relevant titles, and summarizing your words into bullet points. #...
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## Inspiration As we began to look at the TreeHacks 10 tracks, all team members were immediately drawn to the sustainability track. In a world with increasing temperatures, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and pollution, among numerous other ecological challenges, we know we all have an individua...
# 💡 Inspiration Meeting new people is an excellent way to broaden your horizons and discover different cuisines. Dining with others is a wonderful opportunity to build connections and form new friendships. In fact, eating alone is one of the primary causes of unhappiness, second only to mental illness and financial p...
## Inspiration **The Tales of Detective Toasty** draws deep inspiration from visual novels like **Persona** and **Ghost Trick** and we wanted to play homage to our childhood games through the fusion of art, music, narrative, and technology. Our goal was to explore the possibilities of AI within game development. We us...
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## Inspiration Every few days, a new video of a belligerent customer refusing to wear a mask goes viral across the internet. On neighborhood platforms such as NextDoor and local Facebook groups, neighbors often recount their sightings of the mask-less minority. When visiting stores today, we must always remain vigilan...
## Inspiration Recent mass shooting events are indicative of a rising, unfortunate trend in the United States. During a shooting, someone may be killed every 3 seconds on average, while it takes authorities an average of 10 minutes to arrive on a crime scene after a distress call. In addition, cameras and live closed ...
## Inspiration We wanted something like amazon where you could get personalized suggestions for classes. Think the "items you may be interested in bar." ## What it does You can sign up for the messenger bot on facebook. Once it's live, it will ask you about your classes and how you rate them. Then you can ask for a ...
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## Inspiration Many low-income families and people without permanent homes in Canada are suffering from food shortages. Since 2017, it has been reported that on average, Canada throws away over 2 million tonnes of edible food per year. Food waste is costly and damaging to the environment, while serving no purpose for ...
## Inspiration One of our first ideas was an Instagram-esque social media site for recipe blogs. We also were interested in working with location data - somewhere along the line there was an idea to make an app that allowed you to track down your friends. Somehow, we managed to combine both of these wildly different ...
## Inspiration Today Instagram has become a huge platform for social activism and encouraging people to contribute to different causes. I've donated to several of these causes but have always been met with a clunky UI that takes several minutes to fully fill out. With the donation inertia already so high, it makes sen...
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## 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 The idea was to help people who are blind, to be able to discretely gather context during social interactions and general day-to-day activities ## What it does The glasses take a picture and analyze them using Microsoft, Google, and IBM Watson's Vision Recognition APIs and try to understand what is ha...
## Inspiration Inspired by the recent success of apps like HQ, we wanted to capitalize upon the mass demand for instant gratification. After browsing reddit for a few hours, we realized that Snapchat uses selfies, Instagram uses pictures, Facebook uses text, and giphyr uses GIFs. ## What it does Enabling two types o...
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## Inspiration This project was inspired by the healthcare community throughout North America. We wanted to help make the lives of caretakers' and others who have underlying health conditions easier by creating an app that can help remind and track the data of ones medical conditions. ## What it does Wellness check ...
## Inspiration As second-year engineering students, our own battles with mental, physical and social health in the competitive academic environment led us to delve into the concerning statistics surrounding rising levels of stress and anxiety among individuals. Fueled by a personal understanding of these struggles, we...
## Inspiration We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m...
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Know more about KnowFood! While familiarizing myself with Princeton's Roma Dining Hall, I noticed two things: a lot of food waste and food consumption. So why not aim to solve both? KnowFood is an application that combines an analysis of Princeton's Dining Hall foods with Amazon Echo's Alexa to provide users informat...
## Inspiration Our inspiration behind creating this app stems from our own experiences as university students. We understand the hectic schedules, academic pressures, and limited time that come with the territory. As students ourselves, we often found it challenging to make healthy and mindful food choices while juggl...
## Inspiration We hate making resumes and customizing them for each employeer so we created a tool to speed that up. ## What it does A user creates "blocks" which are saved. Then they can pick and choose which ones they want to use. ## How we built it [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) [Express](https://expressjs.c...
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## Inspiration The need for driver monitoring in autonomous vehicle research has greatly improved computer vision and Human Activity Recognition (HAR). We realized that there was huge opportunity for computer vision in another area of life where focus and concentration are the primary concern: work productivity. ## W...
## Inspiration 💡 Do your eyes ever feel strained and dry after hours and hours spent staring at screens? Has your eye doctor ever told you about the 20-20-20 rule? Good thing we’ve automated it for you along with personalized analysis of your eye activity using AdHawk’s eye tracking device. The awesome AdHawk demos ...
## Inspiration We're students, and that means one of our biggest inspirations (and some of our most frustrating problems) come from a daily ritual - lectures. Some professors are fantastic. But let's face it, many professors could use some constructive criticism when it comes to their presentation skills. Whether it's...
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## What it does Blink is a communication tool for those who cannot speak or move, while being significantly more affordable and accurate than current technologies on the market. [The ALS Association](http://www.alsa.org/als-care/augmentative-communication/communication-guide.html) recommends a $10,000 communication de...
## Inspiration Retinal degeneration affects 1 in 3000 people, slowly robbing them of vision over the course of their mid-life. The need to adjust to life without vision, often after decades of relying on it for daily life, presents a unique challenge to individuals facing genetic disease or ocular injury, one which ou...
## Inspiration I wanted to find the next big thing like Bitcoin. I saw it once happen with Binance on the Cryptocurrency Exchange market via a Python Package Repo. Is there a way to systematically discover the next big thing? It boils down to getting access to asymmetric information. Asymmetric information is a relat...
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## Overview We created a Smart Glasses hack called SmartEQ! This unique hack leverages the power of machine learning and facial recognition to determine the emotion of the person you are talking to and conducts sentiment analysis on your conversation, all in real time! Since we couldn’t get a pair of Smart Glasses (*h...
## Inspiration So many people around the world, including those dear to us, suffer from mental health issues such as depression. Here in Berkeley, for example, the resources put aside to combat these problems are constrained. Journaling is one method commonly employed to fight mental issues; it evokes mindfulness and ...
## Inspiration: Person of Interest TV show itself. We thought such an idea could be extended to serve a social and practical purpose in today's cities. ## What it does: It is a Law enforcement assistant that aids police officials by providing them with an alerting mechanism to detect major past offenders in possible h...
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## Inspiration This year many things that we once took for granted have become a lot less accessible; for some people more than others. We saw this issue that disproportionately affected immunocompromised individuals and aimed to create a community-wide volunteer based initiative to connect those less amplified voices...
## Inspiration Our team’s mission is to create an application that helps everyone keep track of the food products. Food insecurity is a strategic issue, as people do not live long without food. On the other hand, food safety is a more "civil" topic: it concerns the quality of products intended for human consumption, ...
# Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**. ## Inspiration The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat...
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## Inspiration With its substantial benefits for both patients and physicians, e-prescribing is growing rapidly. In fact, every state in the U.S. now allows e-prescribing and over 70% of U.S. physicians have transmitted at least one prescription electronically. These e-prescriptions can prevent prescription drug error...
## Inspiration To overcome accessibility issues and delay with prescription medication. Specifically, targeting those who are unable to receive their medication and cannot wait to receive their medication through the mail. ## How I built it Primarily using React and Google Cloud APIs ## Challenges we ran into We a...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by my love of walking. We all need more outdoor time, but people often feel like walking is pointless unless they have somewhere to go. I have fond memories of spending hours walking around just to play Pokemon Go, so I wanted to create something that would give people a reason...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for our project came from three of our members being involved with Smash in their community. From one of us being an avid competitor, one being an avid watcher and one of us who works in an office where Smash is played quite frequently, we agreed that the way Smash Bro games were matched...
## Problem In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult. #...
## Inspiration We wanted to help users save time by quickly skim through massive amounts of unread chats and summarizing the most important points. ## What it does Identifies and highlights important conversations, assesses sincerity, variety, length, and quality in messenger messages. Users can click important summ...
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## Inspiration This was inspired by Professor Mann's SWIM demonstration. We believe that it can be revolutionary if implemented in 3D. All of us have faced problems imagining in 3D plane while trying to understand complex calculus questions, Fourier series, electromagnetic waves, 3D atomic orbitals, and many other imp...
Inspired by those 2D displays based on spinning LEDs that show simple lines of text, we imagined that multiple layers of spinning LEDs could be used to create 3D objects. The result is our volumetric display: a display capable of showing a variety of shapes in 3D space. The machine consists of 40 LEDs all soldered to ...
# 🤖🖌️ [VizArt Computer Vision Drawing Platform](https://vizart.tech) Create and share your artwork with the world using VizArt - a simple yet powerful air drawing platform. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65676392/215330789-e38f2b41-1d7b-45b9-bb4f-09be3ffb9bf8.png) ## 💫 Inspiration > > "...
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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 I was walking down the streets of Toronto and noticed how there always seemed to be cigarette butts outside of any building. It felt disgusting for me, especially since they polluted the city so much. After reading a few papers on studies revolving around cigarette butt litter, I noticed that cigarette ...
## Inspiration There is no such data-set available which can be used to do aspect based analysis of the user reviews. We wanted to make something which helps companies get detailed analysis of reviews with respect to various aspects of their service and help them improve based on it. ## What it does Our algorithm wo...
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## Inspiration Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ...
## Inspiration 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...
## Inspiration Want to experience culture through an authentic lens rather than through the eyes of a tourist ## What it does Connects users with a local guide from a country that will take them to the hidden spots that are not filled with tourist traps. ## How we built it We built it using ReactJS ## Challenges ...
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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 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 There's a lot of negativity in news articles nowadays. "News fatigue" is a phenomenon where people become tired of the constant barrage of negative news. We thought of making a **positive only** news app. For some, a positive news app may be a welcome alternative that helps them stay informed without fe...
## Why With Black Friday looming and COVID anxiety spiking, impulsive shopping is more tempting than ever before. We made Lychee to combat these impulsive (and costly!) habits and introduce a bit of fun and delight into online shopping. ## What Lychee is a Google Chrome extension that keeps an eye out for possible i...
## Inspiration Between 1994 and 2013 there were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In many of these disasters, people don't know where to go, and where is safe. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, many people learned about dangers such as ...
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## Inspiration One of our team members' grandfathers went blind after slipping and hitting his spinal cord, going from a completely independent individual to reliant on others for everything. The lack of options was upsetting, how could a man who was so independent be so severely limited by a small accident. There is ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project came from the group's passion to build health related apps. While blindness is not necessarily something we can heal, it is something that we can combat with technology. ## What it does This app gives blind individuals the ability to live life with the same ease as any...
The Book Reading Bot (brb) programmatically flips through physical books, and using TTS reads the pages aloud. There are also options to download the pdf or audiobook. I read an article on [The Spectator](http://columbiaspectator.com/) how some low-income students cannot afford textbooks, and actually spend time at th...
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## Inspiration The post-COVID era has increased the number of in-person events and need for public speaking. However, more individuals are anxious to publicly articulate their ideas, whether this be through a presentation for a class, a technical workshop, or preparing for their next interview. It is often difficult f...
## Inspiration ✨ Seeing friends' lives being ruined through **unhealthy** attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the **biggest** negative effects of video games. ## What it does 🍎 YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using...
## Inspiration I have always been intrigued by the methods in which people overcome disabilities. I keep up with many disabled content creators, and I am constantly inclined to create something whenever they mention an obstacle in their daily lives. I've been trying to learn ASL for many years, but all I can sign is "...
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## Inspiration Machine learning is changing the world on a daily basis- from cars that drive themselves, AI capable of beating humans in our best games, and perhaps most important, predicting and classifying disease (e.g. strokes, seizures, or even cancer). It's possibilities are nothing but promising. That being sai...
## Inspiration We wanted to build a technical app that is actually useful. Scott Forestall's talk at the opening ceremony really spoke to each of us, and we decided then to create something that would not only show off our technological skill but also actually be useful. Going to the doctor is inconvenient and not usu...
## Context on the issue As a Ukrainian from a very young age I was told narratives, to be taken as truth, about people that didn’t look like me, that weren’t white and “European”, didn’t speak my language, or I just had to assume they didn’t. Such narratives told here and there got reinforced over time during school y...
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## Inspiration Taking micro-loans is often a **painfully slow** and **costly process** due to administrative procedure with financial institutions and conversion fees for international loaners. In addition, many Canadians today don't have a solid understanding about the implications of borrowing loans from banks and ...
## Average student debt in Canada is $30k. We want to give new grads the cheapest credit possible. ## Two-sided web app that first let's new grads automate all future monthly student loan payments. Then, banks use a dashboard which allows them to offer the new grad a cheaper loan. Once the bank makes an offer, the new...
#### Inspiration The Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School stated that 250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel every day in the United States. CDC.gov claims the states has 6,000 fatal per year due to these drowsy drivers. We members of the LifeLine team understand the situation; in no way are we goin...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the genetic-algorithm-based Super Mario AI known as MarI/O made by SethBling. MarI/O uses genetic algorithms to teach a neural net to beat levels of Super Mario by maximizing an objective function. Inspired by this, we wanted to create a game that maximizes an objective function usin...
## Inspiration: The inspiration for this project was finding a way to incentivize healthy activity. While the watch shows people data like steps taken and calories burned, that alone doesn't encourage many people to exercise. By making the app, we hope to make exercise into a game that people look forward to doing rat...
## 💭 Inspiration Throughout our Zoom university journey, our team noticed that we often forget to unmute our mics when we talk, or forget to mute it when we don't want others to listen in. To combat this problem, we created speakCV, a desktop client that automatically mutes and unmutes your mic for you using computer...
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## Inspiration We attended an AR workshop and thought it would be interesting to do an AR project with Unity. Initially, we hoped to make an educational tool for Physics classrooms, but later we found the idea hard to implement and changed our idea to making an AR game. ## What it does LIDAR Marble Due is a 1v1 game...
## 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...
Our team and I wanted to create a product that would address an area of social good and education. Specifically, with the 2020 presidential election coming up, we were inspired to create a solution to today's problematic political climate. It is no secret that young voters do not take advantage of their voting rights (...
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## Inspiration The Amazon Echo is literally awesome -- the Amazon AI called Alexa provides intuitive user experience with voice as the only input. We love working with new technologies and this was a great way to learn more about the capabilities of Alexa. ## What it does The Golden Quest is a voice-only, interactiv...
## Inspiration We tried to figure out what kept us connected during the pandemic other then the non ending zoom meetings or the occasional time you spend in class together, and fundamentally this all came down to our ability to just speak and once we started thinking about it we couldn't stop ## What it does We crea...
## Inspiration Over this past semester, Alp and I were in the same data science class together, and we were really interested in how data can be applied through various statistical methods. Wanting to utilize this knowledge in a real-world application, we decided to create a prediction model using machine learning. Th...
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## **CoLab** makes exercise fun. In August 2020, **53%** of US adults reported that their mental health has been negatively impacted due to worry and stress over coronavirus. This is **significantly higher** than the 32% reported in March 2020. That being said, there is no doubt that Coronavirus has heavily impacted ...
## Inspiration With the increasing use of **digital** communication being integrated into our day to day lives, there comes an ergonomic risk from factors such as poor posture, eye strain, and poor physical health. As our group was bouncing one idea after another off each other in a video call, we realized how much t...
## 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...
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## About Climate Connect Nest makes your home adaptable, energy efficient, but Climate Connect allows you to truly customize and tune your environment to your body. Using data such as your sleeping pattern, Climate Connect is able to automatically control heating and cooling of your environment so it is the most comfo...
## About the Project **ClimaGuard** is born from a profound concern for our planet's future. Despite the growing awareness of climate change, many people are unsure how to contribute effectively. ClimaGuard aims to bridge this gap by transforming everyday actions into impactful climate solutions. By leveraging advance...
## Inspiration Pianos are usually heavy and expensive, so a keyboard made from cheap and portable materials like paper can be very useful. That's why we came up with the paper piano idea. With a paper piano, it's natural to connect it to a computer and achieve multiple purposes like composing. While most composers rel...
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# Privileged This app was made during nwHacks 2018. ## Proposal A web application for conducting a ‘privilege walk’. The questions are tailored towards the tech community in North America. ## Social Issue The Privilege of Not Understanding Privilege. ## Links The demo app can be found here: [Privileged](http://w...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project was both personal experience and the presentation from Ample Labs during the opening ceremony. Last summer, Ryan was preparing to run a summer computer camp and taking registrations and payment on a website. A mother reached out to ask if we had any discounts available f...
## Inspiration Neuro-Matter is an integrated social platform designed to combat not one, but 3 major issues facing our world today: Inequality, Neurological Disorders, and lack of information/news. We started Neuro-Matter with the aim of helping people facing the issue of Inequality at different levels of society. Th...
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## Inspiration In a lot of mass shootings, there is a significant delay from the time at which police arrive at the scene, and the time at which the police engage the shooter. They often have difficulty determining the number of shooters and their location. ViGCam fixes this problem. ## What it does ViGCam spots and...
## Inspiration The inspiration for InstaPresent came from our frustration with constantly having to create presentations for class and being inspired by the 'in-game advertising' episode on Silicon Valley. ## What it does InstaPresent is a tool that uses your computer's microphone to generate a presentation in real-...
## Inspiration We wanted to create something that helped other people. We had so many ideas, yet couldn't stick to one. Luckily, we ended up talking to Phoebe(?) from Hardware and she talked about how using textiles would be great in a project. Something clicked, and we started brainstorming ideas. It ended up with us...
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## Inspiration On our way to PennApps, our team was hungrily waiting in line at Shake Shack while trying to think of the best hack idea to bring. Unfortunately, rather than being able to sit comfortably and pull out our laptops to research, we were forced to stand in a long line to reach the cashier, only to be handed...
## Inspiration 🔥 While on the way to CalHacks, we drove past a fire in Oakland Hills that had started just a few hours prior, meters away from I-580. Over the weekend, the fire quickly spread and ended up burning an area of 15 acres, damaging 2 homes and prompting 500 households to evacuate. This served as a harsh re...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the recent forest fires which are devastating the country of Australia, destroying the habitats of many animals. Through our app, we want to raise awareness to the effects that climate change can have on the ecosystem. Fauna Fund is an interactive ecosystem that the user can d...
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## Inspiration We are inspired by the story of people who have experienced sexual harassment in their life. The people who decided to bear the pain inside and stay silent because they didn't want to loose their job, they didn't want consequences and they didn't want further assault. ## What it does Victims of assaul...
## Inspiration Most of the team are students from UBC and in recent months, it has come to light that UBC has mishandled several reports of sexual harassment and assault. This is not an isolated situation. Across Canada, sexual assault on campus is vastly underreported, both by survivors and by schools. ## What it do...
## Inspiration **Machine learning** is a powerful tool for automating tasks that are not scalable at the human level. However, when deciding on things that can critically affect people's lives, it is important that our models do not learn biases. [Check out this article about Amazon's automated recruiting tool which l...
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## Inspiration We thought it would be nice if, for example, while working in the Computer Science building, you could send out a little post asking for help from people around you. Also, it would also enable greater interconnectivity between people at an event without needing to subscribe to anything. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet...
## Inspiration All of us have friends or know of someone who has ADHD. ADHD is characterized by being easily distracted, especially by sounds in our everyday life such as a cough or car honk. From this idea of noise distractions, we decided to try creating noise-cancelling headphones for anyone just wanting to focus (...
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## Inspiration We were all interested in emotional analysis and we felt that this was really cool and effective tool for anyone to use. This tool can be used by anyone who is trying to make a better presentation, be that a student, public-speaker, or actor. ## What it does We have built two separate but related tool...
## Inspiration The Future of Computer Science Computer Science, Software Engineering and Information Systems are international qualifications, enabling people to work globally, and in a very broad variety of roles. Through this hackathon, we wanted to bridge the gap between men and machine in a creative way, so we dec...
## Inspiration Our biggest inspiration came from our grandparents, who often felt lonely and struggled to find help. Specifically, one of us have a grandpa with dementia. He lives alone and finds it hard to receive help since most of his relatives live far away and he has reduced motor skills. Knowing this, we were de...
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## When I was in my second year of college I met with an accident and unfortunately broke my leg. I had a lot of difficulty walking and I was sent to a rehabilitation center to see how people without legs cope with this situation. Seeing the situation of these amputees I felt that as an engineering student I can contri...
## Inspiration We wanted to create something that helped other people. We had so many ideas, yet couldn't stick to one. Luckily, we ended up talking to Phoebe(?) from Hardware and she talked about how using textiles would be great in a project. Something clicked, and we started brainstorming ideas. It ended up with us...
## Inspiration GeoGuesser is a fun game which went viral in the middle of the pandemic, but after having played for a long time, it started feeling tedious and boring. Our Discord bot tries to freshen up the stale air by providing a playlist of iconic locations in addendum to exciting trivia like movies and monuments ...
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![Slipstream Logo](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--IM9deGvg--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/http://i.imgur.com/FPBllXi.png) ## Inspiration We've found that when we are developing an app at lightning speed, it can be a struggle to keep team members and beta testers on the newest build. Exi...
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## Inspiration Companies lack insight into their users, audiences, and marketing funnel. This is an issue I've run into on many separate occasions. Specifically, * while doing cold marketing outbound, need better insight onto key variables of successful outreach * while writing a blog, I have no idea who reads it * ...
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## Inspiration ⚡️ Given the ongoing effects of COVID-19, we know lots of people don't want to spend more time than necessary in a hospital. We wanted to be able to skip a large portion of the waiting process and fill out the forms ahead of time from the comfort of our home so we came up with the solution of HopiBot. ...
## Inspiration Many hackers cast their vision forward, looking for futuristic solutions for problems in the present. Instead, we cast our eyes backwards in time, looking to find our change in restoration and recreation. We were drawn to the ancient Athenian Agora -- a marketplace; not one where merchants sold goods, b...
## Inspiration We were motivated by the business need of a meeting cost and analysis tool. ## What it does Takes salary levels as input and computes cost of meetings for the company based on participants and length of time of the meeting. Aggregates info and displays visualizations by team or role. ## How we built ...
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## Inspiration I dreamed about the day we would use vaccine passports to travel long before the mRNA vaccines even reached clinical trials. I was just another individual, fortunate enough to experience stability during an unstable time, having a home to feel safe in during this scary time. It was only when I started t...
## Inspiration Recently, security has come to the forefront of media with the events surrounding Equifax. We took that fear and distrust and decided to make something to secure and protect data such that only those who should have access to it actually do. ## What it does Our product encrypts QR codes such that, if ...
## Inspiration We have all lined up the perfect shot only to have our pictures ruined by an innocent passerby. Our team decided that our beautiful pictures should not be compromised by people in the frame. ## What it does The application uses a recent deep-learning advancement called stable-diffusion to recognize an...
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we built an interactive web application that allows users to learn about mail in ballots by scrolling using their hand movements!
## Inspiration To set our goal, we were grandly inspired by the Swiss system, which has proven to be one of the most functional democracy in the world. In Switzerland, there is a free mobile application, VoteInfo, which is managed by a governmental institution, but is not linked to any political groups, where infos ab...
## Inspiration Critical thinking skills are now more important than ever. To access all of the stored knowledge available to us, it is important that we learn to ask better questions. Einstein is quoted as saying “If I had an hour to answer a question and my life depended on it, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about th...
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# Feta ***40% of all food in the United States goes to waste.*** … but you’re still randomly hungry for literally anything at 11pm. What if there was an app that would let anyone share their free food tips across campuses, boardrooms, and cities? **Feta** lets you do this, providing a way for socially-verifiable, liv...
## Inspiration Being frugal students, we all wanted to create an app that would tell us what kind of food we could find around us based on a budget that we set. And so that’s exactly what we made! ## What it does You give us a price that you want to spend and the radius that you are willing to walk or drive to a res...
**Plates** is a web-based platform dedicated to enriching lives by bringing people together through the universal language of food. Our mission is to create meaningful social connections by facilitating shared dining experiences that cater to diverse tastes and preferences. By integrating with the Yelp for restaurant s...
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## Inspiration As a team of backend engineers, we use ChatGPT a LOT in our frontend engineering. However, the process often feels tedious as we flip between our site render, VSCode, and ChatGPT -- especially if our changes aren't rendering properly. Hence, we wanted to make a more convenient, interactive tool that wou...
## Inspiration Our team came into the hackathon excited to build a cool full-stack app. However, we quickly realized that most of our time would be eaten up building the frontend, rather than implementing interesting features and functionality. We started working on a command line tool that would help us build fronten...
## 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...
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## Inspiration The phrase, "hey have you listened to this podcast", can be seen as the main source of inspiration for this project. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor at Standford school of medicine. As a part of his desire to bring zero cost to consumer information about health and health-rela...
## Inspiration After learning about NLP and Cohere, we were inspired to explore the capabilities it had and decided to use it for a more medical oriented field. We realized that people prefer the internet to tediously needing to call somebody and wait in long hold times so we designed an alternative to the 811 hotline...
## Inspiration Our solution was named on remembrance of Mother Teresa ## What it does Robotic technology to assist nurses and doctors in medicine delivery, patient handling across the hospital, including ICU’s. We are planning to build an app in Low code/No code that will help the covid patients to scan themselves a...
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## Inspiration The current overdose crisis in Philadelphia has lead to a massive amount of overdose victims, and a combination of other crime issues as well as the cities infrastructure has prevented emergency services from being able to respond and assist in a timely manner. However, there is a way for civilians to h...
## Inspiration In light of the ongoing global conflict between war-torn countries, many civilians face hardships. Recognizing these challenges, LifeLine Aid was inspired to direct vulnerable groups to essential medical care, health services, shelter, food and water assistance, and other deprivation relief. ## What it...
# Get the Flight Out helps you GTFO ASAP ## Inspiration Constantly stuck in meetings, classes, exams, work, with nowhere to go, we started to think. What if we could just press a button, and in a few hours, go somewhere awesome? It doesn't matter where, as long as its not here. We'd need a plane ticket, a ride to the...
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## Inspiration I was inspired by the website that we all know and love, CoolMathGames.com. While it seems like there are multiple apps designed to elevate our brain and cognitive skills, I felt like going back to the roots- the origin- of it all. ## What it does Through engaging mini-games, the player is able to acc...
## Inspiration Our team was inspired by the potential applications of AR technology. ## What it does Monsters are generated with mathematics problems attached to them. When users know the answer to a math problem, they can tap on the associated monster to shoot a ball at them and eliminate them. ## How we built it ...
# Inspiration When we ride a cycle we to steer the cycle towards the direction we fall, and that's how we balance. But the amazing part is we(or our brain) compute a complex set of calculations to balance ourselves. And that we do it naturally. With some practice it gets better. The calculation in our mind that goes o...
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## Inspiration Swap was inspired by COVID-19 having an impact on many individuals’ daily routines. Sleep schedules were shifted, more distractions were present due to working from home, and being away from friends and family members was difficult. Our team wanted to create a solution that would help others add excitem...
## Inspiration memes have become a cultural phenomenon and a huge recreation for many young adults including ourselves. for this hackathon, we decided to connect the sociability aspect of the popular site "twitter", and combine it with a methodology of visualizing the activity of memes in various neighborhoods. we hop...
## Inspiration One of the major inspirations of this project is when we got to know about the case of our team member who earlier met with a car accident. According to him, he didn't get the proper guidance from the doctors as the different doctors gave him different solutions. We have tons of examples from our societ...
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## 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...
## Inspiration While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de...
# MyHealth ## List of Definitions CNT - Carbon nanotube, it is 3D structure made of carbon Graphite - Carbon 2D structure ECG (electrocardiogram) - the test for medical which measure any problem in heart Mobility sensor - the test for movement which measure any movement between two different locations Sensor - A devi...
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## What is it? This website is intended to be an interactive and fun way for children and adults to practice recognizing facial expressions. At least one study found that computer based treatment can significantly help children with high-functioning autism (<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-015-2374-...
## Inspiration We love using document-based databases such as MongoDB. We just wish they were better. More often than not, they aren't built with serverless in mind, have a terrible developer experience, and are unreliable. ## What it does ezDB is full full-fledged cloud storage solution, providing a database built ...
## 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 Us college students all can relate to having a teacher that was not engaging enough during lectures or mumbling to the point where we cannot hear them at all. Instead of finding solutions to help the students outside of the classroom, we realized that the teachers need better feedback to see how they ca...
## 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 After observing different hardware options, the dust sensor was especially outstanding in its versatility and struck us as exotic. Dust-particulates in our breaths are an ever present threat that is too often overlooked and the importance of raising awareness for this issue became apparent. But retainin...
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## Inspiration My friend Pablo used to throw me ball when playing beer pong, he moved away so i replaced him with a much better robot. ## What it does it tosses you a ping pong ball right when you need, you just have to show it your hand. ## How we built it With love sweat tears and lots of energy drink. ## Chall...
## Inspiration Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su...
## Inspiration One day morning, my roommate and I were getting up late. We are rushing for many stuffs in the morning routine: preparing meals, brushing teeth, making the coffee, etc. However, because of the limited time, we are frustrated that we still forgot many things: we didn’t wear enough clothes as we didn’t ch...
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## Inspiration Inspired from American Sniper ## What it does Make a guess for where the evil sniper is based on callout hints and snipe the sniper, you have 3 chances ## How I built it Using Callout animation and some geometry ## Challenges I ran into 1) Lack of knowledge on 3d algorithms to turn the landscape i...
## Inspiration After surfing online, we found some cool videos of 3d tracking with an eye. We thought taking those concepts and bringing it to a mobile game would be a wonderful combination of the two, and bring more physical activity in a game. ## What it does This game provides a source of endless activity and enc...
## Inspiration After being overwhelmed by the volume of financial educational tools available, we discovered how the majority of products are focused for institutions or expensive. We decided there needs to be an easy approach to learning about stocks in a more casual environment. Interested in the simplicity of Tinde...
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## Inspiration We had a chat with the engineers at the Jump booth and brainstormed some ideas, particularly in regards to building an explorer for Wormhole cross-chain events. Additionally, since wormhole has a limit for the amount of value allowed to be bridged in a given time (as an additional protection after the h...
## Inspiration With a prior interest in crypto and defi, we were attracted to Uniswap V3's simple yet brilliant automated market maker. The white papers were tantalizing and we had several eureka moments when pouring over them. However, we realized that the concepts were beyond the reach of most casual users who would...
## Inspiration With the constant evolution of the internet and web technologies, web developers are spread thinner than ever. Accessibility is often overlooked. We wanted to make a tool which would provide an accessibility layer on top of webpages -- providing users with accessibility automatically without developers ...
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## Inspiration Ever felt a shock by thinking where did your monthly salary or pocket money go by the end of a month? When Did you spend it? Where did you spend all of it? and Why did you spend it? How to save and not make that same mistake again? There has been endless progress and technical advancements in how we de...
## Inspiration We wanted to make an app that helped people to be more environmentally conscious. After we thought about it, we realised that most people are not because they are too lazy to worry about recycling, turning off unused lights, or turning off a faucet when it's not in use. We figured that if people saw how...
## Inspiration One. Word. ~Frictionless~ ## What it does journ-o provides a ~frictionless~ journaling experience. Users can hop on to their account, make a journal cataloging their events for the day, then leave in a matter of seconds. Years later, they'll be thankful for their experience using journ-o. ## How we b...
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## Inspiration Disasters can strike quickly and without notice. Most people are unprepared for situations such as earthquakes which occur with alarming frequency along the Pacific Rim. When wifi and cell service are unavailable, medical aid, food, water, and shelter struggle to be shared as the community can only comm...
## Inspiration The only thing worse than no WiFi is slow WiFi. Many of us have experienced the frustrations of terrible internet connections. We have too, so we set out to create a tool to help users find the best place around to connect. ## What it does Our app runs in the background (completely quietly) and maps o...
## Inspiration We didn't have any ideas and we were following the UT Austin vs USC football game. Sadly, UT Austin lost, but this was not a common occurrence. We decided to make a page to track the meme that is UT football. ## What it does You type in the name of the college football team you want to track, and our ...
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Check it out live! [link](http://spyfi.me) ## Inspiration From Wikipedia: > > ### In cryptography, a side-channel attack is any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem, rather than brute force or theoretical weaknesses in the algorithms (compare cryptanalysis). > > > As...
## Inspiration A big part of why I attended PennApps was to learn about how to host an effective Hackathon since I will be organizing HackKean at Kean University in Spring 2017. I really wanted to make something with Hackathons in mind and this actually helps with any big events in general. It's a loss prevention syst...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Over the past year I'd encountered plenty of Spotify related websites that would list your stats, but none of them allowed me to compare my taste with my friends, which I found to be the most fun aspect of music. So, for this project I set out to make a website that would allow users to compare their mu...
## Inspiration Did you know that about 35% of Spotify users have trouble finding the song they want? Source? I made it up. On a real note, we actually came up with idea first, but then we scrapped it because we thought it was impossible. Many hours later of struggling, we thought we were doomed because there were jus...
## Inspiration While we were coming up with ideas on what to make, we looked around at each other while sitting in the room and realized that our postures weren't that great. You We knew that it was pretty unhealthy for us to be seated like this for prolonged periods. This inspired us to create a program that could he...
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# RouteMaster Project Submission ## Inspiration Our project was born out of the frustration experienced during course selections when students constantly worry about whether they are on the right track to graduate in their chosen major, specialization, or minor. Navigating the confusing and complex undergraduate cour...
## Inspiration As college students, we have always struggled to find an efficient way to track the constant flow of assignments, quizzes, midterms, etc. We decided to make the solution ourselves! The idea came from the fact that professors use an increasingly large number of platforms such as myCourses, Crowdmark, Ed,...
## Not All Backs are Packed: An Origin Story (Inspiration) A backpack is an extremely simple, and yet ubiquitous item. We want to take the backpack into the future without sacrificing the simplicity and functionality. ## The Got Your Back, Pack: **U N P A C K E D** (What's it made of) GPS Location services, 9000 mAH...
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## Inspiration The inspiration behind GenAI stems from a deep empathy for those struggling with emotional challenges. Witnessing the power of technology to foster connections, we envisioned an AI companion capable of providing genuine emotional support. ## What it does GenAI is your compassionate emotional therapy A...
## 💡 Inspiration We got inspiration from or back-end developer Minh. He mentioned that he was interested in the idea of an app that helped people record their positive progress and showcase their accomplishments there. This then led to our product/UX designer Jenny to think about what this app would target as a probl...
## Inspiration NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens are a new form of digital assets stored on blockchains. One particularly popular usage of NFTs is to record ownership of digital art. NFTs offer several advantages over traditional forms of art including: 1. The ledger of record which is a globally distributed database, mean...
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## Realm Inspiration Our inspiration stemmed from our fascination in the growing fields of AR and virtual worlds, from full-body tracking to 3D-visualization. We were interested in realizing ideas in this space, specifically with sensor detecting movements and seamlessly integrating 3D gestures. We felt that the prime...
## Our Inspiration We were inspired by apps like Duolingo and Quizlet for language learning, and wanted to extend those experiences to a VR environment. The goal was to gameify the entire learning experience and make it immersive all while providing users with the resources to dig deeper into concepts. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration At our core, we believe that everyone has the power to make a positive impact on the world and that being charitable is one of the most potent ways to do so. Through this belief, we were inspired to create a website that allows users to find nonprofit organizations that align with their values and make ...
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## Inspiration We were tired of playing against AI that was too good. When we tried to improve, we were struck down by beautiful AI moves and thus continually failed to improve our skills. ## What it does Caruanabot is an AI that plays the second-best move against you. It is useless but useful and funny at the same ...
## Inspiration We were very inspired by the chaotic innovations happening all around the world and wanted to create something that's just a little stupid, silly, and fun using components that are way too overspecced for the usecase. ## What it does It is intended to use electromagnetic properties and an intense amou...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Sexual assault survivors are in tremendously difficult situations after being assaulted, having to sacrifice privacy and anonymity to receive basic medical, legal, and emotional support. And understanding how to proceed with one's life after being assaulted is challenging due to how scattered informatio...
## 💡Inspiration💡 According to statistics, hate crimes and street violence have exponentially increased and the violence does not end there. Many oppressed groups face physical and emotional racial hostility in the same way. These crimes harm not only the victims but also people who have a similar identity. Aside fro...
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...
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## Inspiration The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we go about everyday errands and trips. Along with needing to plan around wait times, distance, and reviews for a location we may want to visit, we now also need to consider how many other people will be there and whether its even a safe establishment to visit. ...
## 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. #...
As university students, we are no strangers to long hours and sleepless nights. We wanted to create something that could help us and other students like us be more efficient with their studying, so we created Notation. Notation is a tool that utilizes your note-taking habits, class lectures, and sample problems and cre...
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## Inspiration The Housing market is currently booming, yet there are many in our society who are homeless, near homeless and are in desperate need of financial assistance for housing. This issue is exacerbated for people from minority backgrounds and ethnicities, who have been discriminated against for generations wi...
## Inspiration Natural disasters are getting more common. Resource planning is tough for counties, as well as busy people who have jobs to go to while the storm brews miles away. DisAstro Plan was born to help busy families automate their supply list and ping them about storm updates in case they need to buy earlier t...
## Inspiration Learning a new instrument is hard. Inspired by games like Guitar Hero, we wanted to make a fun, interactive music experience but also have it translate to actually learning a new instrument. We chose the violin because most of our team members had never touched a violin prior to this hackathon. Learning...
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## Inspiration As a lazy engineering student I hate getting up to pull the chain to open my blinds every morning. As a result of quarantine I go days without seeing sunlight. Lack of sunlight exposure has been proven to have effects on mental health and I wanted to use hardware to solve my problem. ## What it does T...
## Inspiration As university students, we stare at screens 24/7. This exposes us to many habits unhealthy for the eyes, such as reading something too close for too long, or staring at something too bright for too long. We built the smart glasses to encourage healthy habits that reduce eye strain. ## What it does In ...
## Inspiration Ever felt a shock by thinking where did your monthly salary or pocket money go by the end of a month? When Did you spend it? Where did you spend all of it? and Why did you spend it? How to save and not make that same mistake again? There has been endless progress and technical advancements in how we de...
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This is the bot that can give information about Dominion card game. I should answer the following questions and perform following actions: 1. Basic information about a particular card: its image, cost, link to the Dominion Strategy Wiki page 2. List of cards in the Expansion 3. Generate a list of 10 cards to be used ...
## Inspiration As busy programmers, we are very well acquainted with copy and pasting error output into google and hoping stack overflow has an answer for us. With the advent and sudden popularity of generative AI, the potential to **level-up** our debugging game was apparent. However, it is extremely inconvenient to ...
## Inspiration The Canadian winter's erratic bouts of chilling cold have caused people who have to be outside for extended periods of time (like avid dog walkers) to suffer from frozen fingers. The current method of warming up your hands using hot pouches that don't last very long is inadequate in our opinion. Our goa...
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## Inspiration Many connected objects/services are now available, tracking various information about the user's time slept, distance traveled, geo location, tastes, weather info or absolutely anything. But this segmented data is wasted. Point will compile this data and simplify user’s life. ## What it does Point und...
## Inspiration We wanted to build the most portable and accessible device for augmented reality. ## What it does This application uses location services to detect where you are located and if you are in proximity to one of the landmark features based on a predefined set of coordinates. Then a 3d notification message...
## Inspiration Many students rely on scholarships to attend college. As students in different universities, the team understands the impact of scholarships on people's college experiences. When scholarships fall through, it can be difficult for students who cannot attend college without them. In situations like these,...
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## Inspiration Given the current state of events, we were inspired to create a device that was able to mitigate the transfer of bacteria through commonly touched surfaces, as well as provide a more efficient method of keeping track of the number of people entering or exiting a room for health and safety purposes. Due ...
## Overview AOFS is an automatic sanitization robot that navigates around spaces, detecting doorknobs using a custom trained machine-learning algorithm and sanitizing them using antibacterial agent. ## Inspiration It is known that in hospitals and other public areas, infections spread via our hands. Door handles, in...
## Inspiration With the recent elections, we found it hard to keep up with news outside of the states, and hear of people's perspectives on a global scale. We wanted to make it easier to see and read of news all across the world, to bring a bird-eye's-view on our local problems and our local popular opinions. Geovibes...
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## Inspiration Every single Berkeley student knows that finding housing near campus is one of the most stressful experiences of their lives. (Yes, even more than school sometimes.) We just wanted to make an app that would make the process less difficult. Currently there isn't a good consolidated listing of living spac...
Many diffusion models are trained on artists' works without their consent, and artists are powerless against web scrapers. Takes an image from an artist, and makes human-invisible changes to cause web-scraping classifiers to misidentify the image React, Flash, and PyTorch Proud of figuring out how React and Flask wo...
## Inspiration Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ...
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**## Inspiration** According to the United Nations in 2013– Global forced displacements tops over fifty million for the first time since the second world war . The largest groups are from Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia. A large percentage of the people leaving these war-torn countries apply to be refugees but sadly on...
## Inspiration One of the biggest challenges faced by families in war effected countries was receiving financial support from their family members abroad. High transaction fees, lack of alternatives and a lack of transparency all contributed to this problem, leaving families struggling to make ends meet. According to...
## Inspiration I took inspiration from an MLH rubber ducky sticker that I found on my desk. It's better to make *something* rather than nothing, so why not make a cool looking website? There's no user authentification or statistical analysis to it, it's just five rubber duckies vibing out in the neverending vacuum of ...
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## Inspiration: We're trying to get involved in the AI chat-bot craze and pull together cool pieces of technology -> including Google Cloud for our backend, Microsoft Cognitive Services and Facebook Messenger API ## What it does: Have a look - message Black Box on Facebook and find out! ## How we built it: SO MUCH PY...
## Inspiration One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss. Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe...
## Inspiration In the era of information where innovation and creation are at the forefront,everyone should have the opportunity to shape and innovate, yet countless individuals with disabilities find the doorway to programming out of reach. Recongnizing the pressing need for inclusivity, we were inspired to create a ...
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## Inspiration We wanted to bring Augmented Reality technologies to an unexpecting space; challenging ourselves to think outside of the box. We were looking for somewhere where user experience could be dramatically improved. ## What it does Our AR mobile application recognizes DocuSigns QR codes and allows you to ei...
## Inspiration Have you ever looked back at your year, your month, or even your week and felt like it passed in a blur without you being sure of what really happened? Existing journal/diary apps are oftentimes too free range to become a reoccurring habit and it can oftentimes feel tedious to sit down and write with pe...
## Inspiration In the exciting world of hackathons, where innovation meets determination, **participants like ourselves often ask "Has my idea been done before?"** While originality is the cornerstone of innovation, there's a broader horizon to explore - the evolution of an existing concept. Through our AI-driven plat...
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## Inspiration The inspiration came from the desire to learn about sophisticated software without the massive financial burden that comes with premium hardware in drones. So the question arose, what if the software could be utilized on any drone and made it available open source. ## What it does The software allows ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by current research in EEG and brain-controlled devices, and wanted to see how far we could push it as an input method. ## What it does Our solution is a quick and intuitive method to control drones, eliminating bulky controls. You can control a drone completely with facial gestures a...
## Inspiration At work, conference calls usually involves multiple people on one side using the same microphone. It may be hard to know who's speaking and what their role is. Furthermore, some details of the meeting can be lost and it's tedious to note everything down. ## What it does Our app distinguishes/recognize...
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## Inspiration We wanted to use a RaspberryPi in an innovative way. We also wanted promote a healthy lifestyle. ## What it does Detects what you place in a fridge and predicts when the food while go bad. ## How I built it RaspberryPi camera and python flask webserver application. ## Challenges I ran into Getting...
## Inspiration One of our close friends is at risk of Alzheimer's. He learns different languages and engages his brain by learning various skills which will significantly decrease his chances of suffering from Alzheimer's later. Our game is convenient for people like him to keep the risks of being diagnosed with demen...
## Summary OrganSafe is a revolutionary web application that tackles the growing health & security problem of black marketing of donated organs. The verification of organ recipients leverages the Ethereum Blockchain to provide critical security and prevent improper allocation for such a pivotal resource. ## Inspirati...
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## Inspiration: I lost my grandmother to an incompetent doctor and almost lost my partner during travel to a rare tropical illness that was misdiagnosed by two doctors. Additionally, my military service in austere parts of the world illuminated varying degrees of poverty to include a lack of access to healthcare servi...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a game during to ease the boredom of quarantine, so we developed a text-based endless dungeon crawler. ## What it does Dungeon dwellers is a dungeon crawling game wherein you fight your way up an endless dungeon against monsters to find better gear and level up. ## How we built it...
## About Us Discord Team Channel: #team-64 omridan#1377, dylan28#7389, jordanbelinsky#5302, Turja Chowdhury#6672 Domain.com domain: positivenews.space ## Inspiration Over the last year headlines across the globe have been overflowing with negative content which clouded over any positive information. In addition ev...
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## Inspiration As college students ourselves, we've been through a few lectures. Sometimes we have conflicting activities and can't make it to class. Sometimes we don't have conflicting activities and *still* don't make it to class. Or perhaps we attend class and wish we could rewind time to hear what the professor sa...
## Inspiration We were inspired by Pokemon Go and Duolingo. We believe that exploring the world and learning a new language pair up well together. Associating new vocabulary with real experiences helps you memorize it better. ## What it does * Explore your surroundings to find landmarks around you. * To conquer a la...
## Inspiration We are two college students renting a house by ourselves with a high energy bill due to heating during Canada’s winter. The current solutions in the market are expensive AND permanent. We cannot make permanent changes to a house we rent, and we couldn’t afford them to begin with. ## What it does Kafa ...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for Sustain-ify came from observing the current state of our world. Despite incredible advancements in technology, science, and industry, we've created a world that's becoming increasingly unsustainable. This has a domino effect, not just on the environment, but on our own health and wel...
## 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...
## Inspiration As we make our transition to the sustainable future, the sources we get are food from are going to change. Farms will be closer to our towns and communities will cultivate gardening to supply hyperlocal food. HyperSmart Gardens aims to lead this transition by building sustainable gardening, providing ed...
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## Inspiration Last year we had to go through the hassle of retrieving a physical key from a locked box in a hidden location in order to enter our AirBnB. After seeing the August locks, we thought there must be a more convenient alternative. We thought of other situations where you would want to grant access to your ...
## Inspiration The current landscape of data aggregation for ML models relies heavily on centralized platforms, such as Roboflow and Kaggle. This causes an overreliance on invalidated human-volunteered data. Billions of dollars worth of information is unused, resulting in unnecessary inefficiencies and challenges in t...
# VOICE Voice is an app that helps people with disablity to speak with recognizing thier gestures giving out text and speech * Some of the challenges faced by people with disability to speak: 1. A lack of communication medium leads to confusion 2. They cannot use the call feature. 3. When using ASL, interpreters a...
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## What it does Khaledifier replaces all quotes and images around the internet with pictures and quotes of DJ Khaled! ## How we built it Chrome web app written in JS interacts with live web pages to make changes. The app sends a quote to a server which tokenizes words into types using NLP This server then makes a ca...
## 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 NFTs are exploding onto the scene in 2021, those unfamiliar with the technology behind them are left wondering why. We have been hearing about how Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his first-ever tweet for over $2.9M or about Dapper Lab’s NBA Top Shot selling NFTs of NBA season moments for incredible amount...
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## Inspiration In the game Death Stranding, there is a similar mechanism tracking something normal people couldn’t see. Based on the theme of connectivity, we decided to develop a project that tracks the lightest position. **Where there is light, there is hope, and there is connectivity.** ## What it does Scan aroun...
## Inspiration Kabeer and I (Simran!) care deeply about impact, and building cool sh\*t. He has a background in IoT and my background is in computational bio/health technologies. When thinking about what we want to create during HTN, we decided it would be most fun to find an intersection between hardware and healthc...
## The Problem 🤔 In the midst of an ecological crisis, one of Canada's largest environmental problems is being caused by one of its smallest critters - the dreaded Mountain Pine Beetle. Between 1990 and 2012, the Beetle ate its way through approximately 723 million cubic metres (53%) of all the merchantable pine in B...
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## Inspiration We want to make everyone impressed by our amazing project! We wanted to create a revolutionary tool for image identification! ## What it does It will identify any pictures that are uploaded and describe them. ## How we built it We built this project with tons of sweats and tears. We used Google Visi...
## Inspiration Ever wish you didn’t need to purchase a stylus to handwrite your digital notes? Each person at some point hasn’t had the free hands to touch their keyboard. Whether you are a student learning to type or a parent juggling many tasks, sometimes a keyboard and stylus are not accessible. We believe the futu...
## Inspiration Our team’s mission is to build a tool that alleviates stress on Canadians during the hefty tax season. With Canadians spending over 7 hours to complete their tax returns and over $5 billion dollars to cover personal income compliance costs, we decided to come up with a solution to help Canadians save t...
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## Inspiration Epidemiology is critical in figuring out how to stop the spread of diseases before it’s too late ## What it does ClassiFly uses image data to classify individuals with known disease symptoms. For demonstration purposes, we selected Yellow Fever and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Eele...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project was the technological and communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients, restricted access to both one’s own health data and physicians, misdiagnosis due to lack of historical information, as well as rising demand in distance-healthcare due to the lack ...
## Inspiration Recognizing the disastrous effects of the auto industry on the environment, our team wanted to find a way to help the average consumer mitigate the effects of automobiles on global climate change. We felt that there was an untapped potential to create a tool that helps people visualize cars' eco-friendl...
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## Inspiration We love cooking and watching food videos. From the Great British Baking Show to Instagram reels, we are foodies in every way. However, with the 119 billion pounds of food that is wasted annually in the United States, we wanted to create a simple way to reduce waste and try out new recipes. ## What it d...
## Inspiration In the work from home era, many are missing the social aspect of in-person work. And what time of the workday most provided that social interaction? The lunch break. culina aims to bring back the social aspect to work from home lunches. Furthermore, it helps users reduce their food waste by encouraging ...
## Inspiration 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, but 90% who are diagnosed early survive over 5 years. However, breast cancer victims often realize they have breast cancer when it is too late, costing them thousands. About 40% of diagnosed breast cancers are self-detected in its early stages with a ro...
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## Inspiration There are two types of pets wandering unsupervised in the streets - ones that are lost and ones that don't have a home to go to. Pet's Palace portable mini-shelters services these animals and connects them to necessary services while leveraging the power of IoT. ## What it does The units are placed in...
## Inspiration After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ...
## Inspiration For any hospital, the key to it running smoothly is to follow the set orderly system. But, as too many patients know, there are times when a should be orderly hospital is thrown into chaos. Patients would often need to ask medical staff several times for their medical documents and require assistance ge...
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# Babble: PennAppsXVIII PennApps Project Fall 2018 ## Babble: Offline, Self-Propagating Messaging for Low-Connectivity Areas Babble is the world's first and only chat platform that is able to be installed, setup, and used 100% offline. This platform has a wide variety of use cases such as use in communities with lim...
**In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.** ## Inspiration Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen...
## Inspiration We believe that every person should be able to experience an urban lifestyle to their heart's content without worrying for their safety, so we built ListenHere to empower this vision. ## What It Does ListenHere is a mobile-compatible web application that listens for intervals of sounds and predicts, b...
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## Inspiration Fall lab and design bay cleanout leads to some pretty interesting things being put out at the free tables. In this case, we were drawn in by a motorized Audi Spyder car. And then, we saw the Neurosity Crown headsets, and an idea was born. A single late night call among team members, excited about the po...
## Inspiration Ethiscan was inspired by a fellow member of our Computer Science club here at Chapman who was looking for a way to drive social change and promote ethical consumerism. ## What it does Ethiscan reads a barcode from a product and looks up the manufacturer and information about the company to provide con...
## Inspiration We were inspired by popular language-learning platforms like Duolingo and wanted to explore how an unconventional form of negative reinforcement could impact the learning process. The idea of introducing mild physical stimuli, such as a shock, stemmed from a curiosity about how different motivators can ...
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## Inspiration My cousin recently had children, and as they enter their toddler years, I saw how they use their toys. They buy them, use them for a couple weeks, but then get bored. To be honest, however, I can't blame them. Currently, toys are used in one way, with no real interaction coming from both the child and t...
## Inspiration Everyone on our team comes from a family of newcomers and just as it is difficult to come into a new country, we had to adapt very quickly to the Canadian system. Our team took this challenge as an opportunity to create something that our communities could deeply benefit from when they arrive in Canada....
## Inspiration Having Stanford CS teachers like Chris Piech has truly changed the way we learn about CS and AI. Yet, with new interests in AI due to innovation like Chat GPT, comes with a lack of technical infrastructure and visualization to help beginner coder understands algorithm. Rohan and I both personally strugg...
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## Inspiration Let's say you’re an employee going home after work. It's a hard day's night, and you really need someone to talk to, or someone to share the joy of radio music. You consider becoming a uber on a ride-sharing platform, but you don't have the time to pick leave your route and pick up people at somewhere e...
## Inspiration With the lack of accessible student housing in recent years, demand for public transportation has skyrocketed—including GO Transit buses that depart from McMaster University and head towards destinations in Mississauga and Brampton. Students wait in line for hours on end as buses fill up before they can...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Today, Generative AI offers an impressive number of innovative solutions to previously unsolvable problems. However, the interactions between users and generative AI continue to feel, well, artificial. Generative AI offers the potential for a machine to take on roles that people have previously had to t...
## Inspiration We loved picture books as children and making up our own stories. Now, it's easier than ever to write these stories into a book using AI! ## What it does * Helps children write their own stories * Illustrates stories for children * Collects a child's story into a picture book, sharable to their friend...
## 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 💥 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💡 Our team is saddened by the fact that so many people think that COVID-19 is obsolete when the virus is still very much relevant and impactful to us. We recognize that there are still a lot of people around the world that are quarantining—which can be a very depressing situation to be in. We wanted ...
## Inspiration As students, we want to travel to experience other cultures and to see the world outside of our own bubbles. However, the abundance of information available can make it challenging to decide on a specific destination or experience. ## What it does Xplore is an all-in-one mobile application designed fo...
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## Inspiration 3-D Printing. It has been around for decades, yet the printing process is often too complex to navigate, labour intensive and time consuming. Although the technology exists, it is only used by those who are trained in the field because of the technical skills required to operate the machine. We want to ...
## What it does Using Blender's API and a whole lot of math, we've created a service that allows you to customize and perfectly fit 3D models to your unique dimensions. No more painstaking adjustments and wasted 3D prints necessary, simply select your print, enter your sizes, and download your fitted prop within a few...
# ThoughtWheels The rise of Artificial Intelligence and technological advancements has significantly boosted productivity for many. However, there's a noticeable gap in applying these innovations to aid the disabled and elderly. Addressing this, we created a transformative solution: a **smart wheelchair prototype**. T...
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### Saturday 11AM: Starting Out > > *A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step* > > > BusBuddy is pulling the curtain back on school buses. Students and parents should have equal access to information to know when and where their buses are arriving, how long it will take to get to school, and be up-to-d...
## 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...
Track: Social Good [Disaster Relief] [Best Data Visualization Hack] [Best Social Impact Hack] [Best Hack for Building Community] ## Inspiration Do you ever worry about what is in your water? While some of us live in the luxury of getting clean water for granted, some of us do not. In Flint, MI, another main water pi...
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## What it does Blink is a communication tool for those who cannot speak or move, while being significantly more affordable and accurate than current technologies on the market. [The ALS Association](http://www.alsa.org/als-care/augmentative-communication/communication-guide.html) recommends a $10,000 communication de...
## Inspiration Only a small percentage of Americans use ASL as their main form of daily communication. Hence, no one notices when ASL-first speakers are left out of using FaceTime, Zoom, or even iMessage voice memos. This is a terrible inconvenience for ASL-first speakers attempting to communicate with their loved one...
## Inspiration We wanted to build an app that reduces stress and helps users in dire situations such as that of being injured. ## What it does The app allows users to take or upload a picture of an injury then identifies the injury and provides immediate treatment solutions. ## How I built it The app was built wit...
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## Inspiration Lyft's round up and donate system really inspired us here. We wanted to find a way to benefit both users and help society. We all want to give back somehow, but don't know how sometimes or maybe we want to donate, but don't really know how much to give back or if we could afford it. We wanted an easy ...
## Inspiration After reading a study that stated $62 million in pennies are accidentally thrown out each year, we were curious about how this money could have instead been used to benefit society. As such, we decided to create an app that allows users to use their leftover change to make an actual change for others. ...
## Inspiration We wanted a new type of biometric authentication that could potentially be fun to utilize. ## What it does Records the gait of the person wearing the sock and tracks the gait over time to match it with the gait of the respective user, allowing for authentication. ## How we built it We used an Arduin...
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## Inspiration ## What it does The leap motion controller tracks hand gestures and movements like what an actual DJ would do (raise/lower volume, cross-fade, increase/decrease BPM, etc.) which translate into the equivalent in the VirtualDJ software. Allowing the user to mix and be a DJ without touching a mouse or key...
## Inspiration (<http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mr_robot.jpg>) If you watch Mr. Robot, then you know that the main character, Elliot, deals with some pretty serious mental health issues. One of his therapeutic techniques is to write his thoughts on a private journal. They're great... they g...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the story of the large and growing problem of stray, homeless, and missing pets, and the ways in which technology could be leveraged to solve it, by raising awareness, adding incentive, and exploiting data. ## What it does Pet Detective is first and foremost a chat bot, integrated ...
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## Inspiration The current landscape of data aggregation for ML models relies heavily on centralized platforms, such as Roboflow and Kaggle. This causes an overreliance on invalidated human-volunteered data. Billions of dollars worth of information is unused, resulting in unnecessary inefficiencies and challenges in t...
## Inspiration 81% of Americans today feel a lack of control over their own data. Customers today can’t trust that companies won’t store or use their data maliciously, nor can they trust data communication channels. However, many companies need access to user data to offer extensive proprietary analyses. This results ...
## ✨ Inspiration Quarantining is hard, and during the pandemic, symptoms of anxiety and depression are shown to be at their peak 😔[[source]](https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/). To combat the negative effects of isolation and social a...
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Worldwide, there have been over a million cases of animal cruelty over the past decade. With people stuck at home, bottling up their frustrations. Moreover, due to COVID, these numbers aren’t going down anytime soon. To tackle these issues, we built this game, which has features like: * Reminiscent of city-building si...
## Introduction [Best Friends Animal Society](http://bestfriends.org)'s mission is to **bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets** They have an ambitious goal of **reducing the death of homeless pets by 4 million/year** (they are doing some amazing work in our local communities and definitely deserve m...
## Inspiration I love sky. ## What it does ## How I built it ## Challenges I ran into ## Accomplishments that I'm proud of ## What I learned ## What's next for MySky Virtual Reality Planetarium
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