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## 💡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... | ## 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
49 percent of women reported feeling unsafe walking alone after nightfall according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In light of recent sexual assault and harassment incidents in the London, Ontario and Western community, women now feel unsafe travelling alone more than ever.
Light My W... | partial |
## Inspiration
With the increase in Covid-19 cases, the healthcare sector has experienced a shortage of PPE supplies. Many hospitals have turned to the public for donations. However, people who are willing to donate may not know what items are needed, which hospitals need it urgently, or even how to donate.
## What i... | ## We wanted to help the invisible people of Toronto, many homeless people do not have identification and often have a hard time keeping it due to their belongings being stolen. This prevents many homeless people to getting the care that they need and the access to resources that an ordinary person does not need to thi... | ## 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.
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## 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
As we all know the world has come to a halt in the last couple of years. Our motive behind this project was to help people come out of their shells and express themselves. Connecting various people around the world and making them feel that they are not the only ones fighting this battle was our main ob... | ## Inspiration
My inspiration for creating CityBlitz was getting lost in Ottawa TWO SEPARATE TIMES on Friday. Since it was my first time in the city, I honestly didn't know how to use the O-Train or even whether Ottawa had buses in operation or not. I realized that if there existed an engaging game that could map hots... | losing |
## Inspiration
Helping people who are visually and/or hearing impaired to have better and safer interactions.
## What it does
The sensor beeps when the user comes too close to an object or too close to a hot beverage/food.
The sign language recognition system translates sign language from a hearing impaired individu... | ## Inspiration
There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1... | Yeezy Vision is a Chrome extension that lets you view the web from the eyes of the 21st century's greatest artist - Kanye West. Billions of people have been deprived of the life changing perspective that Mr. West has cultivated. This has gone on for far too long. We had to make a change.
Our extension helps the common... | winning |
## Inspiration
As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r... | ## Inspiration
SustainaPal is a project that was born out of a shared concern for the environment and a strong desire to make a difference. We were inspired by the urgent need to combat climate change and promote sustainable living. Seeing the increasing impact of human activities on the planet's health, we felt compe... | ## Inspiration
At the TreeHacks hackathon, amidst the buzz of innovation and collaboration, our team found inspiration in an unlikely place: the trash bins. As we observed the overflowing landfill bins in stark contrast to the scarcely filled recycling and compost bins, a collective realization dawned on us. It highli... | winning |
## Inspiration
Saw a **huge Problem** in the current K-Pop Production system:
1) Tremendous Resource Waste (5+ Years and 100s of MUSD to train & manufacture a single group)
2) Gamble Factor (99.9% fail utterly)
**Why K-Pop?**
K-Pop isn’t just a music genre, but a very unique BM that builds upon the economy of fandom ... | ## ✨ Try out our Figma prototype [here](https://www.figma.com/proto/UwwjiYZ9OcKncY7WsVZ3Rv/TED-Talks-Dashboard?node-id=3-712&node-type=frame&t=AiEglOMvzB3etz1W-1&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=3%3A712)
## Inspiration
We all procrastinate a lot—especially our team. We didn'... | ## Inspiration
Google Docs is a game changing product but it was never applied to music production. This hackathon is about community so we decided that a tool to allow people to jam together would make music and inspire people to work together to create
## What it does
Allows people to join up in a "room" to work o... | losing |
# PotholePal
## Pothole Filling Robot - UofTHacks VI
This repo is meant to enable the Pothole Pal proof of concept (POC) to detect changes in elevation on the road using an ultrasonic sensor thereby detecting potholes. This POC is to demonstrate the ability for a car or autonomous vehicle to drive over a surface and ... | ## Inspiration
Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves.
## What it does
The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c... | 
## Inspiration
Two weeks ago you attended an event and have met some wonderful people to help get through the event, each one of you exchanged contact information and hope to keep in touch with each other. Neither one of you contacted each oth... | winning |
**Recollect** is a $150 robot that scans, digitizes, and analyzes books with zero intervention. Once a book is placed on the stand, Recollect's robotic arm delicately flips the pages while a high-resolution camera captures each page. The images are sent to a website which merges the images into a PDF and creates AI sum... | ## Inspiration
McMaster's SRA presidential debate brought to light the issue of garbage sorting on campus. Many recycling bins were contaminated and were subsequently thrown into a landfill. During the project's development, we became aware of the many applications of this technology, including sorting raw materials, ... | ## Inspiration
As someone who is very interested in both computer science and game design, I like developing tools to enable what we are capable of with games. Today, play any RPG and enter a dialogue. You'll have 2, maybe 3 or 4 choices. You click on one, and the game continues. This experience can be breaking to the... | partial |
## Inspiration:
What inspired the team to create this project, was the fact that many people around the world are misdiagnosed with different types of ocular diseases, which leads to patients getting improper treatments and ultimately leading to visual impairment (blindness). With the help of Theia, we can properly di... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this app arose from two key insights about medical education.
1. Medicine is inherently interdisciplinary. For example, in fields like dermatology, pattern recognition plays a vital role in diagnosis. Previous studies have shown that incorporating techniques from other fields, such ... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
We recognized that many individuals are keen on embracing journaling as a habit, but hurdles like the "all or nothing" mindset often hinder their progress. The pressure to write extensively or perfectly every time can be overwhelming, deterring potential journalers. Consistency poses another challenge, ... | ## 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... | ## 💡 Inspiration
Mental health issues are becoming a more prevalent problem each year. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, but less than 20% of people actually seek mental health treatment. Furthermore, 47% of Americans believe that seeking therapy is a sign of weakness. Our goal with journal4m... | winning |
# 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... | ## Inspiration
In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta... | ## Inspiration
We have many friends living in cities around the world but we rarely visit them since the flights are usually too expensive. So we build an app which gives you alerts once the flights to your friends drop to a low price.
## What it does
We get your friendslist from facebook and then give you the optio... | winning |
## Inspiration
Due to our craze for space exploration, we are forgetting how we are polluting outer space and the long-lasting changes that we are making. Just like climate change, we will soon have space change.
Due to our today's mistakes, I do not want our future generations to take charge of cleaning space just s... | ## Inspiration
We drew inspiration from recognizing the laziness of people when they are sitting at their desks yet they wish to throw away their garbage. Hence, to solve this problem, we decided to have a robot that can shoot garbage to the trash bin without the need to get up.
## What it does
It transforms garbage... | ## Inspiration
In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine... | losing |
## 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... | Ever wonder where that video clip came from? Probably some show or movie you've never watched. Well with RU Recognized, you can do a reverse video search to find out what show or movie it's from.
## Inspiration
We live in a world rife with movie and tv show references, and not being able to identify these references ... | ## our why
Dialects, Lingoes, Creoles, Acrolects are more than just words, more than just languages - there are a means for cultural immersion, intangible pieces of tradition and history passed down through generations.
Remarkably two of the industry giants lag far behind - Google Translate doesn't support translatio... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind ReflectAI stems from the growing prevalence of virtual behavioral interviews in the modern hiring process. We recognized that job seekers face a significant challenge in mastering these interviews, which require not only the right words but also the right tone and body language. W... | ## Inspiration
With the number of candidates rising in the industry in comparison to the job positions, conducting interviews and deciding on candidates carefully has become a critical task. Along with this ratio imbalance, there are an increasing number of candidates that are forging their experience to gain an unfai... | ## Inspiration
An abundance of qualified applicants lose their chance to secure their dream job simply because they are unable to effectively present their knowledge and skills when it comes to the interview. The transformation of interviews into the virtual format due to the Covid-19 pandemic has created many challen... | losing |
## Inspiration
SpotMe seeks to create a designated social media platform for people to share pictures and short videos of their workouts and other fitness related content. Moreover, SpotMe strives to create a casual, low-stakes social media atmosphere so that everyone, no matter how fit they may be, feels comfortable ... | ## Inspiration
Recently I have injured myself in the gym working out, and I decided to do something so it will not happen again. The second source of inspiration for the whole team, was the talk given by the presented at the begging of the hackathon, talking about the future of technology. After discussing it a bit, w... | ## Inspiration
We have a desire to spread awareness surrounding health issues in modern society. We also love data and the insights in can provide, so we wanted to build an application that made it easy and fun to explore the data that we all create and learn something about being active and healthy.
## What it does
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## Inspiration
We got lost so many times inside MIT... And no one could help us :( No Google Maps, no Apple Maps, NO ONE. Since now, we always dreamed about the idea of a more precise navigation platform working inside buildings. And here it is. But that's not all: as traffic GPS usually do, we also want to avoid the ... | # Project Story: Proactive, AI-Driven Cooling and Power Management
## About the Project
### Inspiration and Market Validation
Our project was inspired by insights gained from the NSF ICorps course in May, where we received strong market validation for the problem we aimed to solve. To ensure we were addressing a rea... | ## Inspiration
Walking is a sustainable and effective form of transit whose popularity is negatively impacted by perceived concerns about boredom and safety. People who are choosing between multiple forms of transit might not select walking due to these issues. Our goal was to create a solution that would make walking... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by Katie's 3-month hospital stay as a child when she had a difficult-to-diagnose condition. During that time, she remembers being bored and scared -- there was nothing fun to do and no one to talk to. We also looked into the larger problem and realized that 10-15% of kids in hospitals d... | ## Inspiration
Most of us have had to visit loved ones in the hospital before, and we know that it is often not a great experience. The process can be overwhelming between knowing where they are, which doctor is treating them, what medications they need to take, and worrying about their status overall. We decided that... | ## Inspiration
We want to fix healthcare! 48% of physicians in the US are burned out, which is a driver for higher rates of medical error, lower patient satisfaction, higher rates of depression and suicide. Three graduate students at Stanford have been applying design thinking to the burnout epidemic. A CS grad from U... | winning |
## Inspiration
TL;DR: Cut Lines, Cut Time.
With the overflowing amount of information and the limited time that we have, it is important to efficiently distribute the time and get the most out of it.
With people scrolling short videos endlessly on the most popular apps such as Tiktok, Instagram, and Youtube, we thoug... | ## Inspiration 💡
The push behind EcoCart is the pressing call to weave sustainability into our everyday actions. I've envisioned a tool that makes it easy for people to opt for green choices when shopping.
## What it does 📑
EcoCart is your AI-guided Sustainable Shopping Assistant, designed to help shoppers minimiz... | ## Inspiration
Frustrated with the overwhelming amount of notes required in AP classes, we decided to make life easier for ourselves. With the development of machine learning and neural networks, automatic text summary generation has become increasingly accurate; our mission is to provide easy and simple access to the... | partial |
## Inspiration
One of our main inspirations was looking through some of the most engaging presentations that we've seen in the past. One of the best ways to engage an audience is through laughter, and making it easier for users to implement comedic elements is what we are setting out to do. Giggle Gear might sound lik... | ## Inspiration
We both came to the hackathon without a team and couldn't generate ideas about our project in the Hackathon. So we went to 9gag to look into memes and it suddenly struck us to make an Alexa skill that generates memes. The idea sounded cool and somewhat within our skill-sets so we went forward with it. W... | ## Inspiration
There's something about brief glints in the past that just stop you in your tracks: you dip down, pick up an old DVD of a movie while you're packing, and you're suddenly brought back to the innocent and carefree joy of when you were a kid. It's like comfort food.
So why not leverage this to make money?... | partial |
## Inspiration
Ever wanted to lead your own choir? Wanted to generate music just by your moving your hands?
Its not some magic! Its Hakuna Matata!
## What it does
It determines what han... | ## Inspiration
In Canada alone, there are over 350,000 Canadians who are deaf and around another 3 million who are hard of hearing. However, picking up sign language for them can often be a challenge, especially for deaf children who are often born to hearing parents who often don't know sign language. The inability t... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Having previously volunteered and worked with children with cerebral palsy, we were struck with the monotony and inaccessibility of traditional physiotherapy. We came up with a cheaper, more portable, and more engaging way to deliver treatment by creating virtual reality games geared towards 12-15 year ... | ## Inspiration
Members of our team know multiple people who suffer from permanent or partial paralysis. We wanted to build something that could be fun to develop and use, but at the same time make a real impact in people's everyday lives. We also wanted to make an affordable solution, as most solutions to paralysis co... | ## Inspiration
Every year, our school does a Grand Challenges Research project where they focus on important topic in the world. This year, the focus is on mental health which providing cost-effective treatment and make it accessible to everyone. We all may know someone who has a phobia, came back from a tour in the m... | winning |
## About the Project
### TLDR:
Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori... | ## Inspiration
Our project is inspired by the sister of one our creators, Joseph Ntaimo. Joseph often needs to help locate wheelchair accessible entrances to accommodate her, but they can be hard to find when buildings have multiple entrances. Therefore, we created our app as an innovative piece of assistive tech to i... | ## Inspiration
Data analytics can be **extremely** time-consuming. We strove to create a tool utilizing modern AI technology to generate analysis such as trend recognition on user-uploaded datasets.The inspiration behind our product stemmed from the growing complexity and volume of data in today's digital age. As busi... | winning |
## Inspiration
We created ASL Bridgify to address the need for an interactive real time pose-estimation based learning model for ASL. In a post-pandemic world, we foresee that working from home and more remote experiences signals the need to communicate with individuals with hearing disabilities. It is a feature that ... | Hospital visits can be an uneasy and stressful time for parents and children. Since parent's aren't always able to be present during children's long hospital stays, MediFeel tries to facilitate the communication process between the child, parent, and doctors and nurses.
The child is able to send a status update about ... | ## Inspiration
The ability to easily communicate with others is something that most of take for granted in our everyday life. However, for the millions of hearing impaired and deaf people all around the world, communicating their wants and needs is a battle they have to go through every day. The desire to make the wor... | partial |
## Inspiration 💡
In the face of a growing loneliness epidemic, notably among millennial women, 42% of whom fear loneliness more than cancer, and young adults with 61% feeling "serious loneliness,” we built a solution that extends beyond mere digital interaction. For women, the consequences of loneliness raises the ri... | ## Inspiration
The motivation behind creating catPhish arises from the unfortunate reality that many non-tech-savvy individuals often fall victim to phishing scams. These scams can result in innocent people losing nearly their entire life savings due to these deceptive tactics employed by cybercriminals. By leveraging... | ## Inspiration
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## What it does
## How I built it
## Challenges I ran into
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## What I learned
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Electric boogaloo lights up the fret/string combo to play for different chords, and can show you how to play songs in realtime by lighting up the banjo neck.
It's also an electronic banjo, as opposed to an electric banjo, meaning that instead of just an amplifier on regular string audio, it knows which string is being... | 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... | ## 💡 Inspiration
We love Piano Tiles, but how about we make it a more satisfying tactile experience AND fun and flashy????? Introducing *it's lit*, a hardware and web game for your local fidgeter to tap physical buttons along with lights and music!!
## 🚨 What it does
it’s lit allows users to take a break anytime a... | winning |
## Inspiration
When travelling in a new place, it is often the case that one doesn't have an adequate amount of mobile data to search for information they need.
## What it does
Mr.Worldwide allows the user to send queries and receive responses regarding the weather, directions, news and translations in the form of s... | ## Inspiration
After our initial hack failed, and with only 12 hours of time remaining, we decided to create a proof-of-concept that was achievable in the time remaining. As Twilio was a sponsor, we had the idea of using SMS to control a video game. We created Hackermon to demonstrate how this technology has potential... | >
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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... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to get home safe
## What it does
Stride pairs you with walkers just like UBC SafeWalk, but outside of campus grounds, to get you home safe!
## How we built it
React Native, Express JS, MongoDB
## Challenges we ran into
Getting environment setups working
## Accomplishments that we're pro... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by those with Asperger's, Sentimentex is the idea of Siyuan Liu, Faazilah Mohamed, and Saniyah Shaikh at PennApps xvi (Fall 2017). It aims to help those who have a hard time discerning the emotions from texts, emails, and other text-based media by using machine learning, natural language proces... | winning |
## Inspiration
One of our team members, Jack, was inspired by his dad to create Get-It-Done. His dad works as a freelance landscaper and owns a small business in Vancouver, BC. When he first started his work, he had trouble finding and acquiring new clients and had to rely on his network to get contracts. Similarly, t... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to do something good for the people and the environment, but had no idea, then suddenly realized that there's no eCommerce that lets you borrow things from other people, so we decided to work on it, since it seemed like a really good idea and something innovative.
## What it does
This platfo... | ## Inspiration
As roommates, we found that keeping track of our weekly chore schedule and house expenses was a tedious process, more tedious than we initially figured.
Though we created a Google Doc to share among us to keep the weekly rotation in line with everyone, manually updating this became hectic and cumbersom... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were looking for an innovative solution to keep us aware of what we were eating.
## What it does
Nutlogger is a web and mobile application that tracks nutritional data over a period of the day, month, year. With this data, we hope that users can get a better understanding of their eating habits.
#... | Check out our project at <http://gitcured.com/>
## Inspiration
* We chose the Treehacks Health challenge about creating a crowdsourced question platform for sparking conversations between patients and physicians in order to increase understanding of medical conditions.
* We really wanted to build a platform that did ... | ## Inspiration
When it comes to finding solutions to global issues, we often feel helpless: making us feel as if our small impact will not help the bigger picture. Climate change is a critical concern of our age; however, the extent of this matter often reaches beyond what one person can do....or so we think!
Inspired... | partial |
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future.
## What inspired us
We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work.
## Background
If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te... | ## 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
Mental health has become one of the most prominent issues today that has impacted a high percentage of people. This has taken a negative toll on their lives and have made people feel like they do not belong anywhere. Due to this, our group decided to assist these people by creating a phone application t... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration of our project is rooted in relatable and often amusing real-life situations that many of us have experienced. It's those moments of almost forgetting a friend's birthday, the accidental inclusion of an ingredient they're allergic to or prefer to avoid in a shared meal, and even the occa... | ## Inspiration
If you're lucky enough to enjoy public speaking, we're jealous of you. None of us like public speaking, and we realized that there are not a lot of ways to get real-time feedback on how we can improve without boring your friends or family to listen to you.
We wanted to build a tool that would help us p... | ## Inspiration
One of us works at a coffeeshop here in Montreal. There is no centralized system for organizing restocking of supplies, so we decided to fill the need with a technological solution.
## What it does
Low on Beans allows employees and managers to keep track of when stock is running low, and automatically... | partial |
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... | ## Inspiration
Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book.
Millions of other people also struggle... | ## Inspiration
Bookshelves are worse than fjords to navigate. There is too much choice, and indecision hits when trying to pick out a cool book at a library or bookstore. Why isn’t there an easy way to compare the ratings of different books from just the spine? That’s where BookBud comes in. Paper books are a staple p... | winning |
We have the best app, the best. A tremendous app. People come from all over the world to tell us how great our app is. Believe us, we know apps.
With Trump Speech Simulator, write a tweet in Donald Trump's voice and our app will magically stitch a video of Trump speaking the words you wrote. Poof!
President Trump oft... | ## Inspiration
Gone are the days of practicing public speaking in a mirror. You shouldn’t need an auditorium full of hundreds of people to be able to visualize giving a keynote speech. This app allows people to put themselves in public speaking situations that are difficult to emulate in every day life. We also wanted... | ## Inspiration
Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book.
Millions of other people also struggle... | partial |
# 🤖🖌️ [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.
## 💫 Inspiration
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We want to have some fun and find out what we could get out of Computer Vision API from Microsoft.
## What it does
This is a web application that allows the user to upload an image, generates an intelligent poem from it and reads the poem out load with different chosen voices.
## How we built it
We ... | ## Inspiration
Our journey to creating this project stems from a shared realization: the path from idea to execution is fraught with inefficiencies that can dilute even the most brilliant concepts. As developers with a knack for turning visions into reality, we've faced the slow erosion of enthusiasm and value that ti... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to take an ancient video game that jump-started the video game industry (Asteroids) and be able to revive it using Virtual Reality.
## What it does
You are spawned in a world that has randomly generated asteroids and must approach one of four green asteroids to beat the stage. Lasers are uti... | ## Inspiration
People struggle to work effectively in a home environment, so we were looking for ways to make it more engaging. Our team came up with the idea for InspireAR because we wanted to design a web app that could motivate remote workers be more organized in a fun and interesting way. Augmented reality seemed ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the idea that the **Metaverse is inevitable** and will impact **every aspect** of society.
The Metaverse has recently gained lots of traction with **tech giants** like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft investing into it.
Furthermore, the pandemic has **shifted our real-world e... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was our experience as students. We believe students need more a digestible feed when it comes to due dates. Having to manually plan for homework, projects, and exams can be annoying and time consuming. StudyHedge is here to lift the scheduling burden off your shoulders!
... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | # Are You Taking
It's the anti-scheduling app. 'Are You Taking' is the no-nonsense way to figure out if you have class with your friends by comparing your course schedules with ease. No more screenshots, only good vibes!
## Inspiration
The fall semester is approaching... too quickly. And we don't want to have to be ... | winning |
## Inspiration
* Inspired by Tints clothing brand ([www.tintsstreetwear.com](http://www.tintsstreetwear.com)), we saw how personalized video thank-yous and abandoned cart follow-ups significantly boosted conversion rates and lowered CAC.
* Building relationships before sales proved effective but was extremely time-con... | ## Inspiration
Going to Stanford, we see all the investor hype around tech but we also see that small businesses are growing faster than ever, and many require capital to expand. We talked to small businesses and realized they often struggle to raise money (and investors are losing out on growing companies). Especiall... | ## Inspiration
**Introducing Ghostwriter: Your silent partner in progress.** Ever been in a class where resources are so hard to come by, you find yourself practically living at office hours? As teaching assistants on **increasingly short-handed course staffs**, it can be **difficult to keep up with student demands wh... | losing |
## Background
Being a team of four first year computer science students who are all participating in a Hackathon for their first times, we had no idea what to expect going in. Our only goals in mind were to make friends, learn things, and get some stickers.
## The Journey
For a solid few hours after the hacking star... | ## Our Inspiration
Have you ever looked inside the fridge, saw a particular piece of food, and wondered if it was still edible? Maybe you felt it, or looked it up online, or even gave it the old sniff test! Yet, at the end of the day, you still threw it away.
Did you know that US citizens waste an average of 200lbs o... | ## Inspiration
As college who have all recently moved into apartments for the first time, we found that we were wasting more food than we could've expected. Having to find rotten yet untouched lettuce in the depths of the fridge is not only incredibly wasteful for the environment but also harmful to our nutrition. We ... | partial |
## DAASH (Disaster Assistance and Safety Helper)
Storms and floods and wild-fires, oh my!
Need help with recovery solutions after a calamity? Need a plan before the event even happens? You're in the right place!
## Inspiration:
The recent increase in natural disasters such as the fires in California and tropical sto... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for the disaster management project came from living in the Bay Area, where earthquakes and wildfires are constant threats. Last semester, we experienced a 5.1 magnitude earthquake during class, which left us feeling vulnerable and unprepared. This incident made us realize the lack of a ... | ## Inspiration
As the lines between AI-generated and real-world images blur, the integrity and trustworthiness of visual content have become critical concerns. Traditional metadata isn't as reliable as it once was, prompting us to seek out groundbreaking solutions to ensure authenticity.
## What it does
"The Mask" i... | losing |
## Inspiration
Ever wish you could hear your baby cry where you are in the world? Probably not, but it's great to know anyways! Did you know that babies often cry when at least one of their needs is not met? How could possibly know about baby's needs without being there watching the baby sleep?
## What it does
Our t... | ## Inspiration
Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves.
## What it does
The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c... | ## Inspiration
I present *Peanuts*, a baby entertainment app that helps out babysitters and parents alike.
## What it does
It listens to babies and "talks" back to them. Once the baby gets tired of talking, *Peanuts* plays a sweet, tranquil lullaby, *Baby* by Justin Bieber, to put them to sleep. [File not included i... | winning |
## Inspiration
Security and facial recognition was our main interest when planning our project for this Makeathon. We were inspired by a documentary in which a male was convicted of murder by the police deparment in Los Angeles. The man was imprisoned for six months away from his daughter and wife. He was wrongfully c... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from our curiosity and excitement to make a simple house-hold item into a high-tech tool that changes the way we interact with everyday things. We wanted to maximize the functionality of an everyday object while implementing innovative technology. We specifically wanted to focus on ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make the interactions with our computers more intuitive while giving people with special needs more options to navigate in the digital world. With the digital landscape around us evolving, we got inspired by scenes in movies featuring Tony Stark, where he interacts with computers within his... | partial |
## Inspiration
BThere emerged from a genuine desire to strengthen friendships by addressing the subtle challenges in understanding friends on a deeper level. The team recognized that nuanced conversations often go unnoticed, hindering meaningful support and genuine interactions. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by all the people who go along their days thinking that no one can actually relate to what they are experiencing. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a mental toll on many of us and has kept us feeling isolated. We wanted to make an easy to use web-app which keeps people connected and allow... | ## ✨ 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
At the University of Toronto, accessibility services are always in demand of more volunteer note-takers for students who are unable to attend classes. Video lectures are not always available and most profs either don't post notes, or post very imprecise, or none-detailed notes. Without a doubt, the best... | ## 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
* Everyone and their dog have a big idea for the next hit app but most people lack the skills or resources to build them.
* Having used some commercial app-building and prototyping tools in the past, we consider them inefficient as they don't reflect what the app is actually going to look like until it ... | winning |
## Inspiration
From daily use of Spotify and my friends
## What it does
It displays shared songs of 2 Spotify accounts on a webpage
## How we built it
We used the open-source Spotipy library to handle the connection with Spotify API. We wrote python code for retrieving users' saved songs, comparing them, and stori... | ## Inspiration
**Inspiration and perspiration combine together to form an unwieldy yet grandiose abomination: [genius](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSX9EOgzlpavyXrIm-E_d5DAdeKlLKeM35lkA&s).** The inspiration for Customerify came from the need to enhance customer service experiences with quick, ... | A "Tinder-fyed" Option for Adoption!
## Inspiration
All too often, I seem to hear of friends or family flocking to pet stores or specialized breeders in the hope of finding the exact new pet that they want. When an animal reaches towards the forefront of the pop culture scene, this is especially true. Many new pet ow... | losing |
## Inspiration
In an unprecedented time of fear, isolation, and *can everyone see my screen?*, no ones life has been the same since COVID.
We saw people come together to protect others, but also those who refused to wear cloth over their noses. We’ve come up with cutting edge, wearable technology to protect ourselves ... | ## Inspiration
Want to take advantage of the AR and object detection technologies to help people to gain safer walking experiences and communicate distance information to help people with visual loss navigate.
## What it does
Augment the world with the beeping sounds that change depending on your proximity towards o... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired to create this as being computer science students we are always looking for opportunities to leverage our passion for technology by helping others.
## What it does
Think In Sync is a platform that uses groundbreaking AI to make learning more accessible. It has features that enable it ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Concrete, potholes, and traffic jams. We've created a way to find the diamonds in the rough amongst an evergrowing, urban metropolis.
## What it does
Simply open up the app, and check for beautiful murals in the vicinity.
The app opens up to a map with all of the current murals present in Montreal. F... | ## Inspiration
Crime rates are on the rise across America, and many people, especially women, fear walking alone at night, even in their own neighborhoods. When we first came to MIT, we all experienced some level of harassment on the streets. Current navigation apps do not include the necessary safety precautions that... | ## Presentation + Award
See the presentation and awards ceremony here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8-WVqPKKo&t=351s&ab_channel=JoshuaQin>
## Inspiration
Back when we first came to the Yale campus, we were stunned by the architecture and the public works of art. One monument in particular stood out to us - the... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by how there were many instances of fraud with regards to how donations were handled. It is heartbreaking to see how mismanagement can lead to victims of disasters not receiving the help that they desperately need.
## What it does
TrustTrace introduces unparalleled levels of transpare... | ## 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,... | ## Inspiration
**Addressing a Dual-Faceted Issue in Philanthropy to Support UN Sustainability Goals**
Charity Chain was inspired by the pervasive issues of mistrust and inefficiency in the philanthropic sector - a problem affecting both donors and charities. By recognizing this gap, we aimed to create a solution that ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Large Language Models (LLMs) are limited by a token cap, making it difficult for them to process large contexts, such as entire codebases. We wanted to overcome this limitation and provide a solution that enables LLMs to handle extensive projects more efficiently.
## What it does
LLM Pro Max intellige... | ## Inspiration
it's really fucking cool that big LLMs (ChatGPT) are able to figure out on their own how to use various tools to accomplish tasks.
for example, see Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>)
this enables a new paradigm self-assembling software: m... | ## Inspiration
Some of our team members are hobbyist DJs, playing shows for college parties and other local events. As smaller-size DJs we've always dreamed of having amazing live visuals for our sets, at the same quality as the largest EDM festivals; however, the cost, effort, and skillset was clearly infeasible for ... | winning |
## Inspiration
As most of our team became students here at the University of Waterloo, many of us had our first experience living in a shared space with roommates. Without the constant nagging by parents to clean up after ourselves that we found at home and some slightly unorganized roommates, many shared spaces in ou... | We present a blockchain agnostic system for benchmarking smart contract execution times. To do this we designed a simple programming language capable of running small performance benchmarks. We then implemented an interpreter for that language on the Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot blockchains in the form of a smart con... | ## Inspiration
It’'s pretty common that you will come back from a grocery trip, put away all the food you bought in your fridge and pantry, and forget about it. Even if you read the expiration date while buying a carton of milk, chances are that a decent portion of your food will expire. After that you’ll throw away f... | partial |
## Inspiration
My college friends and brother inspired me for doing such good project .This is mainly a addictive game which is same as we played in keypad phones
## What it does
This is a 2-d game which includes tunes graphics and much more .we can command the snake to move ip-down-right and left
## How we built i... | ## Inspiration
this is a project which is given to me by an organization and my collegues inspierd me to do this project
## What it does
It can remind what we have to do in future and also set time when it is to be done
## How we built it
I built it using command time utility in python programming
## Challenges w... | ## Inspiration
Instead of a traditional keyboard, hand-held equipment can always bring players with more interactive gaming experience. However, current devices like the Nintendo Joy-Con are platform-exclusive, and these platforms usually do not come at a very cheap price. This project aims to make these interactive g... | partial |
## Inspiration
College students are busy, juggling classes, research, extracurriculars and more. On top of that, creating a todo list and schedule can be overwhelming and stressful. Personally, we used Google Keep and Google Calendar to manage our tasks, but these tools require constant maintenance and force the sched... | ## Inspiration
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
As double majors in college, we understood and felt the stress that students go through when trying to decide how to allocate their time efficiently. Often times, it feels like there just isn't enough time to be able to do all your work. We wanted to create a platform that specifically helps college stu... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind this comes our realization that women are less involved in the financial world and thus have less financial freedom. We aim to promote the equality of women in finance and encourage them to invest their money, instead of leaving it in a bank account, if they have the means. This c... | ## Inspiration
As students who are soon going to be start living on our own, handling our finances and budgeting are important tasks to learn. We decided to make this app in order to make all this budgeting easier.
## What it does
Provides an easy way to organize and budget your finances.
## How we built it
This w... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ... | losing |
## Inspiration:
The inspiration for Kisan Mitra came from the realization that Indian farmers face a number of challenges in accessing information that can help them improve their productivity and incomes. These challenges include:
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Limited reach of extension services
Lack of awareness of government schemes
Diffic... | ## 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... | # Doc.Care
## Our revolutionary platform for medical professionals and patients: a centralized data hub for accessing medical history. Our platform provides easy access to medical history data, allowing doctors and other medical professionals worldwide to access and reference patient records in real-time with a unique... | winning |
## Inspiration
**Do you find yourself easily distracted while watching online educational videos? Introducing Edumedia.**
Our idea began with an interaction I had with my lecturer in a small math class. My lecturer became sick before an exam and had to cancel office hours which was something that the class needed. He... | ## Inspiration
The classroom experience has *drastically* changed over the years. Today, most students and professors prefer to conduct their course organization and lecture notes electronically. Although there are applications that enabled a connected classroom, none of them are centered around measuring students' un... | ## Inspiration
In our journey as students, we have come to recognize the profound predicament that ensues when attempting to glean meaningful insights from lengthy video content. The struggle to synthesize information effectively from such resources is palpable. In light of this predicament, we embarked on a mission t... | losing |
## Inspiration
* Professor and TAs spend lots of time answering relatively trivial questions about assignments and the material that are usually found in the book or on the website, but can be hard to find for students. In addition, up to 25% of new questions on community based forums like Piazza and EdStem are duplic... | ## Inspiration
Presentation inspired by classic chatbots
## What it does
Interfaces with gpt through mindsdb, and engineers the prompt to lead towards leading questions. Saves the query's entered by the user and on a regular interval generates a quiz on topics related to the entries, at the same skill level.
## How... | ## Inspiration
Textbooks have not fundamentally changed since their invention in the 16th century. Although there are now digital textbooks (ePubs and the like), they're still just pictures and text. From educational literature, we know that discussion and interactivity is crucial for improving student outcomes (and, ... | losing |
## Slooth
Slooth.tech was born from the combined laziness and frustration towards long to navigate school websites of four Montréal based hackers.
When faced with the task of creating a hack for McHacks 2016, the creators of Slooth found the perfect opportunity to solve a problem they faced for a long time: navigatin... | ### Overview
Resililink is a node-based mesh network leveraging LoRa technology to facilitate communication in disaster-prone regions where traditional infrastructure, such as cell towers and internet services, is unavailable. The system is designed to operate in low-power environments and cover long distances, ensuri... | ## Inspiration
Oftentimes when we find ourselves not understanding the content that has been taught in class and rarely remembering what exactly is being conveyed. And some of us have the habit of mismatching notes and forgetting where we put them. So to help all the ailing students, there was this idea to make an app... | winning |
## Inspiration
The fame of IBM Watson and potential of AI to shape the future of music industry.
## What it does
It makes IBM Watson sing any famous song by singer and song name input with a background music.
## How I built it
I used IBM Watson API from a web application that I coded in Python. Once a song is sang... | ## Inspiration
Our team originally wanted to build AI-generated sounds for music production. However, to our disappointment, the labeled data we needed for that idea wasn’t sufficient. As a result, we pivoted to trying to make better, more accessible dataset labeling and creation for these smaller, underserved industr... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the desire to democratize music creation. We saw a gap where many people, especially youth, had a passion for making music but lacked the resources, knowledge, or time to learn traditional instruments and complex DAW software. We wanted to create a solution that makes music cr... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our project is inspired by the sister of one our creators, Joseph Ntaimo. Joseph often needs to help locate wheelchair accessible entrances to accommodate her, but they can be hard to find when buildings have multiple entrances. Therefore, we created our app as an innovative piece of assistive tech to i... | ## Presentation + Award
See the presentation and awards ceremony here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8-WVqPKKo&t=351s&ab_channel=JoshuaQin>
## Inspiration
Back when we first came to the Yale campus, we were stunned by the architecture and the public works of art. One monument in particular stood out to us - the... | ## Inspiration
As first-year students, we have experienced the difficulties of navigating our way around our new home. We wanted to facilitate the transition to university by helping students learn more about their university campus.
## What it does
A social media app for students to share daily images of their camp... | winning |
## Inspiration
As victims, bystanders and perpetrators of cyberbullying, we felt it was necessary to focus our efforts this weekend on combating an issue that impacts 1 in 5 Canadian teens. As technology continues to advance, children are being exposed to vulgarities online at a much younger age than before.
## What ... | ## 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.
#... | ## Inspiration
Despite the advent of the information age, misinformation remains a big issue in today's day and age. Yet, mass media accessibility for newer language speakers, such as younger children or recent immigrants, remains lacking. We want these people to be able to do their own research on various news topics... | winning |
## Inspiration
As university students, we often find that we have groceries in the fridge but we end up eating out and the groceries end up going bad.
## What It Does
After you buy groceries from supermarkets, you can use our app to take a picture of your receipt. Our app will parse through the items in the receipts... | ## Inspiration
Let’s face it: getting your groceries is hard. As students, we’re constantly looking for food that is healthy, convenient, and cheap. With so many choices for where to shop and what to get, it’s hard to find the best way to get your groceries. Our product makes it easy. It helps you plan your grocery tr... | ## Inspiration
As college who have all recently moved into apartments for the first time, we found that we were wasting more food than we could've expected. Having to find rotten yet untouched lettuce in the depths of the fridge is not only incredibly wasteful for the environment but also harmful to our nutrition. We ... | partial |
# **Cough It**
#### COVID-19 Diagnosis at Ease
## Inspiration
As the pandemic has nearly crippled all the nations and still in many countries, people are in lockdown, there are many innovations in these two years that came up in order to find an effective way of tackling the issues of COVID-19. Out of all the proble... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | ## Inspiration
Learning never ends. It's the cornerstone of societal progress and personal growth. It helps us make better decisions, fosters further critical thinking, and facilitates our contribution to the collective wisdom of humanity. Learning transcends the purpose of solely acquiring knowledge.
## What it does... | winning |
## Inspiration
We see technology progressing rapidly in cool fields like virtual reality, social media and artificial intelligence but often neglect those who really need tech to make a difference in their lives.
SignFree aims to bridge the gap between the impaired and the general public by making it easier for every... | ## Inspiration 💡
**Due to rising real estate prices, many students are failing to find proper housing, and many landlords are failing to find good tenants**. Students looking for houses often have to hire some agent to get a nice place with a decent landlord. The same goes for house owners who need to hire agents to ... | ## Inspiration
Coming from a Small School like Fordham LC to a school with such a huge campus made me question how different life would be here. At Fordham there are days when I want to go to the gym when is not crowded, so since it is a very small campus I just walk over to the gym and check, but if I had to do that ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Therapy is all about creating a trusting relationship between the clients and their therapist. Building rapport, or trust, is the main job of a therapist, especially at the beginning. But in the current practices, therapists have to take notes throughout the session to keep track of their clients. This ... | ## Inspiration
Ever found yourself struggling to keep up during a lecture, caught between listening to the professor while scrambling to scribble down notes? It’s all too common to miss key points while juggling the demands of note-taking – that’s why we made a tool designed to do the hard work for you!
## What it do... | ## Inspiration
We were originally considering creating an application that would take a large amount of text and summarize it using natural language processing. As well, Shirley Wang feels an awkward obligation to incorporate IBM's Watson into the project. As a result, we came up with the concept of putting in an imag... | partial |
## Inspiration
Many people on our campus use an app called When2Meet to schedule meetings, but their UI is terrible, their features are limited, and overall we thought it could be done better. We brainstormed what would make When2Meet better and thought the biggest thing would be a simple new UI as well as a proper ac... | ## Inspiration
As roommates, we found that keeping track of our weekly chore schedule and house expenses was a tedious process, more tedious than we initially figured.
Though we created a Google Doc to share among us to keep the weekly rotation in line with everyone, manually updating this became hectic and cumbersom... | ## Inspiration
My teammate and I grew up in Bolivia, where recycling has not taken much of a hold in society unfortunately. As such, once we moved to the US and had to deal with properly throwing away the trash to the corresponding bin, we were a bit lost sometimes on how to determine which bin to use. What better way... | partial |
## Inspiration
Recently we have noticed an influx in elaborate spam calls, email, and texts. Although for a native English and technologically literate person in Canada, these phishing attempts are a mere inconvenience, to susceptible individuals falling for these attempts may result in heavy personal or financial los... | ## 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
## Every day, numerous individuals, including ourselves, receive a plethora of emails. We frequently find ourselves sifting through this abundance, trying to identify emails with crucial information, those needing a response, and those of lesser importance. But what if there existed an automated solution... | partial |
## Inspiration
**We love to play D&D**
It just has everything! Friends, food, fun, and a whole lot of writing down numbers in the margins of a sheet of notebook paper while you try and figure out who had the highest initiative roll. As a DM (Dungeon Master, or game manager) and a player, we've tried using all sorts o... | ## Inspiration
Many of us had class sessions in which the teacher pulled out whiteboards or chalkboards and used them as a tool for teaching. These made classes very interactive and engaging. With the switch to virtual teaching, class interactivity has been harder. Usually a teacher just shares their screen and talks,... | ## Inspiration
Technology in schools today is given to those classrooms that can afford it. Our goal was to create a tablet that leveraged modern touch screen technology while keeping the cost below $20 so that it could be much cheaper to integrate with classrooms than other forms of tech like full laptops.
## What i... | partial |
## Inspiration
Everyone learns in a different way. Whether it be from watching that YouTube tutorial series or scouring the textbook, each person responds to and processes knowledge very differently. We hoped to identify students’ learning styles and tailor educational material to the learner for two main reasons: one... | ## Inspiration
Public speaking is an incredibly important skill that many seek but few master. This is in part due to the high level of individualized attention and feedback needed to improve when practicing. Therefore, we want to solve this with AI! We have created a VR application that allows you to get constructive... | ## Inspiration
Our team has a background in education, and we understand that students learn in different ways. From our own personal experience as students, and our background as educators, we understand how frustrating it can be to iterate on your own learning process. The trial and error leads to countless wasted h... | winning |
## Inspiration
Moody was inspired by current events, and how we've been connecting with others during these difficult times. While self-isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we notice that like ourselves, many of our friends were struggling with their mental health. Feelings of loneliness, anxiety, depression, sadne... | ## Inspiration
This generation of technological innovation and human factor design focuses heavily on designing for individuals with disabilities. As such, the inspiration for our project was an application of object detection (Darknet YOLOv3) for visually impaired individuals. This user group in particular has limite... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a team, we've all witnessed the devastation of muscular-degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, on the family members of the afflicted. Because we didn't have enough money or resources or time to research and develop a new drug or other treatment for the disease, we wanted to make the medicine al... | ## Inspiration
Physiotherapy is expensive for what it provides you with, A therapist stepping you through simple exercises and giving feedback and evaluation? WE CAN TOTALLY AUTOMATE THAT! We are undergoing the 4th industrial revolution and technology exists to help people in need of medical aid despite not having the... | ## Inspiration
I was inspired to make this device while sitting in physics class. I really felt compelled to make something that I learned inside the classroom and apply my education to something practical. Growing up I always remembered playing with magnetic kits and loved the feeling of repulsion between magnets.
#... | winning |
## Inspiration
Often times health information is presented in a very clinical manner that is unfriendly for kids, there's too much medical jargon and children have difficulty engaging with the information. We wanted to turn learning about things like diabetes, first aid, and other medical ailments into a fun and inter... | ## Inspiration
Every year, our school does a Grand Challenges Research project where they focus on important topic in the world. This year, the focus is on mental health which providing cost-effective treatment and make it accessible to everyone. We all may know someone who has a phobia, came back from a tour in the m... | ## Inspiration:
Our inspiration stems from the identification of two critical problems in the health industry for patients: information overload and inadequate support for patients post-diagnosis resulting in isolationism. We saw an opportunity to leverage computer vision, machine learning, and user-friendly interface... | partial |
## Inspiration
Badminton boosts your overall health and offers mental health benefits. Doing sports makes you [happier](https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/runners-high-is-it-for-real#1) or less stressed.
Badminton is the fastest racket sport.
The greatest speed of sports equipment, which is given accelera... | ## Inspiration
Members of our team know multiple people who suffer from permanent or partial paralysis. We wanted to build something that could be fun to develop and use, but at the same time make a real impact in people's everyday lives. We also wanted to make an affordable solution, as most solutions to paralysis co... | ## Inspiration
We read online that quizzes help people retain the information they learn, and we figured if we could make it fun then more people would want to study. Oftentimes it's difficult to get study groups together, but everyone is constantly on their phones so a quick mobile quiz wouldn't be hard to do.
## Wh... | winning |
## Inspiration
Old technology always had a certain place in our hearts. It is facinating to see such old and simple machines produce such complex results. That's why we wanted to create our own emulator of an 8-bit computer: to learn and explore this topic and also to make it accessible to others through this learning... | ## Inspiration
As a team, we found that there was no portable mouse on the market that could fit us all comfortably. So we figured, why not make a portable mouse that perfectly conforms to our hand? This was the inspiration for the glove mouse; a mouse that seamlessly integrates into our daily life while also providin... | ## Inspiration
In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue.
## What it does
When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Coming from life science related background, we see a lot of unreliable information circulating on our social media and in news articles. Often the information that could help clear out misinformation is not very accessible.
## What it does
We want to create a convenient application to guide people to... | ## Inspiration
We were looking for ways to use some of the most wild, inaccurate, out-there claims about the Covid-19 Vaccine to instead produce good outcomes.
## What it does
Aggregates misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccine in one location to empower public health officials and leaders to quickly address th... | ## Inspiration
Video is a great form of media, but it's often to slow and too long. We want a way to find the most important parts of a video, and only watch those parts.
## What it does
Users can submit a video Scribr, and Scribr will automatically find the most important parts of the video, and will provide a bran... | losing |
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> Our project is completely open source, so please feel free to contribute if you want!
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We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp... | ## Inspiration
There is head tracking for advanced headsets like the HTC Vive, but not for WebVR, or Google Daydream.
## What it does
Converts a RGB camera into a tracker for the Google Daydream. Users can even choose to build their own classifiers for different headsets.
## How we built it
On the front end, there... | winning |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the story of the large and growing problem of stray, homeless, and missing pets, and the ways in which technology could be leveraged to solve it, by raising awareness, adding incentive, and exploiting data.
## What it does
Pet Detective is first and foremost a chat bot, integrated ... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | partial |
## Inspiration
After witnessing countless victims of home disasters like robberies and hurricanes, we decided, there must be a way to preemptively check against such events. It's far too easy to wait until something bad happens to your home before doing anything to prevent it from happening again. That's how we came u... | ## 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 ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the issues related to coughing especially with regards to sickness.
## What it does
We have two programs, one that analyzes sounds to determine types of coughing/wheezing. The other uses an AI to detect movement, which acts as a controller to a maze game.
## How we built it
We ut... | winning |
## Inspiration
3/4 of us are out-of-state or international students, and have had the shared experience of making trips to the SFO via uber, whether it's because of excess luggage or safety. Trips to SFO can be excessively expensive, and to circumvent this, people often think to share the ride. However, current ride s... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from how we are all relatively new drivers and terrified of busy intersections. Although speed is extremely important to transport from one spot to another, safety should always be highlighted when it comes to the road because car accidents are the number one cause of death in the w... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to watch videos together as a social activity during the pandemic but were unable as many platforms were hard to use or unstable. Therefore our team decided to create a platform that met our needs in terms of usability and functionality.
## What it does
Bubbles allow people to create viewing... | partial |
## Inspiration
We're often at our desks, which is unhealthy. I wanted to make a browser extension that reminds users to do certain things to make the effect of sitting less bad.
## What it does
It reminds the user to rest their eyes every 20 minutes, to drink water every 30, to check their posture every 45 minutes, ... | ## Inspiration
Realizing how often our friends forget to take care of their personal well-being while hard at work, we decided to create a Google Chrome extension that would remind them to keep up healthy habits. All students could use a bit of reminding that their physical health is just as important, if not more, th... | ## Inspiration
With everything being done virtually these days, including this hackathon, we spend a lot of time at our desks and behind screens. It's more important now than ever before to take breaks from time to time, but it's easy to get lost in our activities. Studies show that breaks increases over overall energ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by JetBlue's challenge to utilize their data in a new way and we realized that, while there are plenty of websites and phone applications that allow you to find the best flight deal, there is none that provide a way to easily plan the trip and items you will need with your friends and f... | ## Inspiration
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We had multiple inspirations for creating Discotheque. Multiple members of our team have fond memories of virtual music festivals, silent discos, and other ways of enjoying music or other audio over the internet in a more immersive experience. In addition, Sumedh is a DJ with experience performing f... | ## Inspiration
Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i... | partial |
## Inspiration
For the last few years, I’ve had back problems, most likely caused by poor posture when using the computer.
A few weeks ago, I had a back spasm, and for a few days, I was unable to move most of my body without sharp pain in my back. Using the computer was painful, but I still needed to get work done, e... | ## Inspiration
We spend roughly [1.5-2 hours](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/smartphone-usage-estimates_us_5637687de4b063179912dc96) staring at our **phone screens** everyday. Its not uncommon to hear someone complain about neck pain or to notice a progressive slouching and hunchback developing among adults and t... | ## Inspiration
Frustrated university students in need of a safe space to scream and vent.
## What it does
Let a little guy represent you in a scream world fearlessly, along with other fellow screamers.
## How we built it
We used Unity, C# scripting, Blender and Adobe Photoshop.
## Challenges we ran into
Learning... | partial |
## Inspiration:
Right now, tutoring is needed more than ever. The pandemic and initial school closures have increased inequality in educational outcomes across racial and socioeconomic lines, creating an urgency to identify programs and policies—such as tutoring—to mitigate COVID learning loss.
At the same time, the p... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming sessions on sustainability, our team identified a significant issue: companies generate massive amounts of data daily, leading to waste as older, unused data accumulates. We recognized that this challenge also affects individual developers, who often leave databases untouched as... | ## Inspiration
Technology in schools today is given to those classrooms that can afford it. Our goal was to create a tablet that leveraged modern touch screen technology while keeping the cost below $20 so that it could be much cheaper to integrate with classrooms than other forms of tech like full laptops.
## What i... | losing |
# OpenSpeedCoach
### Stroke WhaAAAAaat?
To track their rowing pace and speed, most rowers use a Stroke Coach, a product produced by [NK Sports](https://nksports.com/category-strokecoach-and-speedcoach). This device monitors and displays live data to the athlete and coach, such as:
* Strokes per minute
* Distance tra... | ## Inspiration
After reading a paper called NEAT: Evolving Increasingly Complex Neural Network Topologies published out of the University of Texas in 2000, we were inspired to test the limits of the algorithm by creating an implementation to learn one of our favourite classic games, Super Mario Bros. We've always foun... | ## Inspiration
Self-motivation is hard. It’s time for a social media platform that is meaningful and brings a sense of achievement instead of frustration.
While various pro-exercise campaigns and apps have tried inspire people, it is difficult to stay motivated with so many other more comfortable distractions around ... | losing |
We created this app in light of the recent wildfires that have raged across the west coast. As California Natives ourselves, we have witnessed the devastating effects of these fires first-hand. Not only do these wildfires pose a danger to those living around the evacuation area, but even for those residing tens to hund... | ## Inspiration
How many clicks does it take to upload a file to Google Drive? TEN CLICKS. How many clicks does it take for PUT? **TWO** **(that's 1/5th the amount of clicks)**.
## What it does
Like the name, PUT is just as clean and concise. PUT is a storage universe designed for maximum upload efficiency, reliabili... | ## Inspiration
With the effects of climate change becoming more and more apparent, we wanted to make a tool that allows users to stay informed on current climate events and stay safe by being warned of nearby climate warnings.
## What it does
Our web app has two functions. One of the functions is to show a map of th... | winning |
## Inspiration
In the current media landscape, control over distribution has become almost as important as the actual creation of content, and that has given Facebook a huge amount of power. The impact that Facebook newsfeed has in the formation of opinions in the real world is so huge that it potentially affected the... | ## Inspiration
**Read something, do something.** We constantly encounter articles about social and political problems affecting communities all over the world – mass incarceration, the climate emergency, attacks on women's reproductive rights, and countless others. Many people are concerned or outraged by reading abou... | ## Inspiration
Social media has been shown in studies that it thrives on emotional and moral content, particularly angry in nature. In similar studies, these types of posts have shown to have effects on people's well-being, mental health, and view of the world. We wanted to let people take control of their feed and ga... | partial |
## Inspiration
Wanted to create something fun that would be a good use of Snapchat's SnapKit! Did not get to it, but the idea was sharing quotes and good reads could be pretty neat between friends - recommending novels is as easy as using the app which interfaces directly into Snapchat! It could also become kind of a ... | ## Inspiration
On social media, most of the things that come up are success stories. We've seen a lot of our friends complain that there are platforms where people keep bragging about what they've been achieving in life, but not a single one showing their failures.
We realized that there's a need for a platform where... | ## Inspiration
In today's age, people have become more and more divisive on their opinions. We've found that discussion nowadays can just result in people shouting instead of trying to understand each other.
## What it does
**Change my Mind** helps to alleviate this problem. Our app is designed to help you find peop... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to make language-learning faster, more omnipresent, and a less burdensome process, so we built lexi to automate the web for you so you can focus on your everyday internet use instead of the barriers to language learning.
The English lexicon is different for everyone. We aimed to provide a nove... | ## Inspiration
When we got together for the first time, we instantly gravitated towards project ideas that would appeal to a broad audience, so music as a theme for our project was a very natural choice. Originally, our ideas around a music-based project were much more abstract, incorporating some notes of music perce... | ## About
We are team #27 on discord, team members are: anna.m#8841, PawpatrollN#9367, FrozenTea#9601, bromainelettuce#8008.
Domain.com challenge: [beatparty.tech]
## Inspiration
Due to the current pandemic, we decided to create a way for people to exercise in the safety of their home, in a fun and competitive manner... | losing |
## Inspiration
Sign language is already difficult to learn; adding on the difficulty of learning movements from static online pictures makes it next to impossible to do without help. We came up with an elegant robotic solution to remedy this problem.
## What it does
Handy Signbot is a tool that translates voice to s... | ## Inspiration
Over 70 million people around the world use sign language as their native form of communication. 70 million voices who were unable to be fully recognized in today’s society. This disparity inspired our team to develop a program that will allow for real-time translation of sign language into a text displ... | ## What it does
What our project does is introduce ASL letters, words, and numbers to you in a flashcard manner.
## How we built it
We built our project with React, Vite, and TensorFlowJS.
## Challenges we ran into
Some challenges we ran into included issues with git commits and merging. Over the course of our pro... | winning |
## Inspiration
A friend of us works in a medical research office where she found inputting patient data for clinical trials is extremely time-consuming. This inspired us to create an iOS app with a key feature of "third-party confirmation system" for clinical trials participants to record their lab results, drug usage... | ## Inspiration
Earlier this week, following the devastation of Hurricane Florence, my newsfeed surged with friends offering their excess food and water to displaced community members. Through technology, the world had grown smaller. Resources had been shared.
Our team had a question: what if we could redistribute som... | ## Inspiration
In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta... | partial |
## Inspiration
We use notetaking apps everyday to take lecture notes, work on problem sets, and share idea sketches. Unfortunately, notetaking apps today are little more than digital paper notes, making our tablets essentially thousand-dollar notebooks. We sought to empower our notes with a digital assistant that coul... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to built a fun, lighthearted project that is still useful for ML researchers, and settled on a fun little game that allows a martian rover to navigate its terrain! One of our members, Michael, has worked on training RL agents using OpenAI's gym framework during his research and past internship... | ## **Inspiration:**
Our inspiration stemmed from the realization that the pinnacle of innovation occurs at the intersection of deep curiosity and an expansive space to explore one's imagination. Recognizing the barriers faced by learners—particularly their inability to gain real-time, personalized, and contextualized ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by the Instagram app, which set out to connect people using photo media.
We believe that the next evolution of connectivity is augmented reality, which allows people to share and bring creations into the world around them. This revolutionary technology has immense potential to help rest... | ## 💡 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
It's an infamous phenomena that riddles modern society - camera galleries filled with near-similar group and self portraits. With burst shutter shots and the general tendency to take multiple photos of a gathered group out of fear that one image may be cursed with a blink, misdirected gaze, or perhaps e... | winning |
## Inspiration
During my application to NWHacks, I was pretty stumped on what to answer for the question on what I was planning on building here. One of my team members suggested I think of something that you \_ can’t \_ do yet with software, and see if you can implement it. After some thinking, I realized that there ... | # Budget Buddy
An Android mobile app built for Hack the 6ix. We designed this app to assist users with budgeting by using AI/OCR to analyze receipts. The user takes a picture of the receipt, and the image gets processed by Textract which will parse out the prices. The user can then categorize purchases, and Budget Bud... | ## Inspiration
The expense behavior of the user, especially in the age group of 15-29, is towards spending unreasonably amount in unnecessary stuff. So we want them to have a better financial life, and help them understand their expenses better, and guide them towards investing that money into stocks instead.
## What... | losing |
# Randflix: a Netflix Randomizer
## Motivation
A handy chrome extension for those who have seen their favourite Netflix shows way too many times. When choosing an episode becomes arduous, just turn to Randflix to make the choice for you!
[Get the extension on the chrome web store!](https://chrome.google.com/webstore... | ## Inspiration
Access to course resources is often fragmented and lacks personalization, making it difficult for students to optimize their learning experiences. When students use Large Language Models (LLMs) for academic insights, they often encounter limitations due to LLMs’ inability to interpret various data forma... | ## Inspiration
Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for building this app came from our personal experiences as library users. We realized that it can be frustrating to walk to the library only to find out that it is crowded and difficult to find a quiet spot to study. Some of our team members prefer to study in the same spot, so the idea... | ## Inspiration
During exam season, people get stressed trying to find open study locations.
## What it does
Directs users to nearby study locations, showing different attributes about these spots, such as their level of crowdedness, if food is allowed, etc.
## How we built it
We utilized HTML and MapBox's Maps API... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Each of us uses speed reading tools on the daily for online news articles and such, so it's always been a pain transitioning to printed media. We wanted a tool that would enable us to read as efficiently as we do online, in real life.
## What it does
This program recognizes words on a physical page us... | ## Inspiration
Today, anything can be learned on the internet with just a few clicks. Information is accessible anywhere and everywhere- one great resource being Youtube videos. However accessibility doesn't mean that our busy lives don't get in the way of our quest for learning.
TLDR: Some videos are too long, and s... | ## Inspiration
What inspired us was we wanted to make an innovative solution which can have a big impact on people's lives. Most accessibility devices for the visually impaired are text to speech based which is not ideal for people who may be both visually and auditorily impaired (such as the elderly). To put yourself... | partial |
## Inspiration
“Emergency” + “Need” = “EmergeNeed”
Imagine a pleasant warm Autumn evening, and you are all ready to have Thanksgiving dinner with your family. You are having a lovely time, but suddenly you notice a batch of red welts, swollen lips, and itchy throat. Worried and scared, you rush to the hospital just t... | ## Inspiration
What would you do with 22 hours of your time? I could explore all of Ottawa - from sunrise at parliament, to lunch at Shawarma palace, and end the night at our favourite pub, Heart and Crown!
But imagine you hurt your ankle and go to the ER. You're gonna spend that entire 22 hours in the waiting room, ... | ## Inspiration
We looked at lots of popular memes recently, and one that stood out was the recently price crash of the cryptocurrency market, which inspired us to make a crypto game.
## What it does
<https://youtu.be/hhcNKm9l5Hc>
## How we built it
We built the bot using Python3 and the discord.py library. The bot... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our game stems from the current global pandemic we are grappling with and the importance of getting vaccinated. As many of our loved ones are getting sick, we believe it is important to stress the effectiveness of vaccines and staying protected from Covid in a fun and engaging game.
## What it does
An... | ## Inspiration
Making learning fun for children is harder than ever. Mobile Phones have desensitized them to videos and simple app games that intend to teach a concept.
We wanted to use Projection Mapping and Computer Vision to create an extremely engaging game that utilizes both the physical world, and the virtual. ... | ## Inspiration
Tax Simulator 2019 takes inspiration from a variety of different games, such as the multitude of simulator games that have gained popularity in recent years, the board game Life, and the video game Pokemon.
## What it does
Tax Simulator is a video game designed to introduce students to taxes and benef... | winning |
## Inspiration
**Read something, do something.** We constantly encounter articles about social and political problems affecting communities all over the world – mass incarceration, the climate emergency, attacks on women's reproductive rights, and countless others. Many people are concerned or outraged by reading abou... | ## Inspiration
In the future we would be driving electric cars. They would have different automatic features, including electronic locks. This system may be vulnerable to the hackers, who would want to unlock the car in public parking lots. So we would like to present **CARSNIC**, a solution to this problem.
## What ... | ## Inspiration
Reading the news helps people expand their knowledge and broaden their horizons. However, it can be time-consuming and troublesome to find quality news articles and read lengthy, boring chunks of text. Our goal is to make news **accessible** to everyone. We provide **concise**, **digestible** news **sum... | partial |
## 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... | ## Background
Half **a million people** in the United States identify as deaf or hard of hearing. Accessibility has always been a huge problem, but especially nowadays as the number of people that know ASL is decreasing each year. The best time to learn a language is as a child, so we aim to target teaching ASL at the... | CalHacks 2022 Project - Fokus
⚡ Welcome to Fokus! ⚡
Fokus is a Chrome extension for studying, focusing, and productivity. As studious Berkeley students in the midst of midterm season, we wanted to create a tool that can help other students study and prepare for their exams!
In the late 1980s Francesco Cirillo develo... | partial |
## Inspiration
Shashank Ojha, Andreas Joannou, Abdellah Ghassel, Cameron Smith
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Clarity is an interactive smart glass that uses a convolutional neural network, to notify the user of the emotions of those in front of them. This wear... | ## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
Integration for patients into society: why can't it be achieved? This is due to the lack of attempts to combine medical solutions and the perspectives of patients in daily use. More specifically, we notice fields in aid to visual disabilities lack efficiency, as the most common option for patients with ... | winning |
## Inspiration
There is head tracking for advanced headsets like the HTC Vive, but not for WebVR, or Google Daydream.
## What it does
Converts a RGB camera into a tracker for the Google Daydream. Users can even choose to build their own classifiers for different headsets.
## How we built it
On the front end, there... | ## Inspiration
Many visually impaired people have difficulties on a day-to-day basis reading text and other items, and other comparable technologies and software are either expensive or bulky and impractical to use. We sought to create a cheap, light and reliable system for text reading.
## What it does
A wearable t... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to pioneer the use of computationally intensive image processing and machine learning algorithms for use in low resource robotic or embedded devices by leveraging cloud computing.
## What it does
CloudChaser (or "Chase" for short) allows the user to input custom objects for chase to track. T... | losing |
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