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## Inspiration The inspiration for this project was drawn from the daily experiences of our team members. As post-secondary students, we often make purchases for our peers for convenience, yet forget to follow up. This can lead to disagreements and accountability issues. Thus, we came up with the idea of CashDat, to a...
## Inspiration test ## What it does ## How I built it ## Challenges I ran into ## Accomplishments that I'm proud of ## What I learned ## What's next for Driving Safety
## Inspiration Today we live in a world that is all online with the pandemic forcing us at home. Due to this, our team and the people around us were forced to rely on video conference apps for school and work. Although these apps function well, there was always something missing and we were faced with new problems we ...
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## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
## Inspiration We can make customer support so, so much better, for both customers and organizations alike. This project was inspired by the frankly terrible wait times and customer support information that the DriveTest centres across Ontario have. ## What it does From a high-level, our platform integrates analytic...
A flower hunting game made using Godot. Credits: 3D map model generated using [blender-osm](https://prochitecture.gumroad.com/l/blender-osm) with data from <https://www.openstreetmap.org/> (License: <https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright>).
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## Introduction 2020 has been a very hard year for all of us, we have all faced unique challenges and hardships. From COVID-19, to civil unrest, and plenty of injustice, people all over the world are fighting for a better future. In these unprecedented times, when we are more disconnected and isolated than ever, it is...
## Inspiration With the excitement of blockchain and the ever growing concerns regarding privacy, we wanted to disrupt one of the largest technology standards yet: Email. Email accounts are mostly centralized and contain highly valuable data, making one small breach, or corrupt act can serious jeopardize millions of p...
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 ...
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## Inspiration Business cards haven't changed in years, but cARd can change this! Inspired by the rise of augmented reality applications, we see potential for creative networking. Next time you meet someone at a conference, a career fair, etc., simply scan their business card with your phone and watch their entire onl...
## Inspiration I've always been fascinated by the complexities of UX design, and this project was an opportunity to explore an interesting mode of interaction. I drew inspiration from the futuristic UIs that movies have to offer, such as Minority Report's gesture-based OS or Iron Man's heads-up display, Jarvis. ## Wh...
## Inspiration I wanted a platform that incentivizes going outside and taking photos. This also helps with people who want to build a portfolio in photography ## What it does Every morning, a random photography prompt will appear on the app/website. The users will be able to then go out and take a photo of said prom...
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## Inspiration There are many occasions where we see a place in a magazine, or just any image source online and we don't know where the place is. There is no description anywhere, and a possible vacation destination may very possibly just disappear into thin air. We certainly did not want to miss out. ## What it does...
## Inspiration We all had a common qualm about traveling abroad: while it was exciting to see new stuff at newer places at even more novel nations, we just found it hard to plan the trip and get around. Luckily for us, google maps and overpriced roaming helped us evade the fate of getting lost in the city. ## What it...
## Inspiration We were going to build a themed application to time portal you back to various points in the internet's history that we loved, but we found out prototyping with retro looking components is tough. Building each component takes a long time, and even longer to code. We started by automating parts of this p...
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## Inspiration The worldwide phenomenon that is Wordle brings together users from all over the world to a play a once-a-day game. Loosely inspired by this successful tale, we present to you Bubble: Young people from around the world have felt the repercussions on our mental well-being due to the never-ending restrict...
## How we built it We built our project by using Javascript, CSS, and HTML. ## Challenges we ran into Two teammates are in Canada and one is in China. The thirteen-hour time difference made us very hard to communicate for the project whenever we want. Also, only two of us have some basic knowledge of front-end devel...
## 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...
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## Inspiration “**Social media sucks these days.**” — These were the first few words we heard from one of the speakers at the opening ceremony, and they struck a chord with us. I’ve never genuinely felt good while being on my phone, and like many others I started viewing social media as nothing more than a source of ...
## Inspiration It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ...
## Inspiration Product managers and startup founders rely heavily on qualitative, not quantitative data, to make product decisions. Their primary touchpoints with customers is user interviews. However, user interviews are useless if each lives in a siloed document. How can we assist product managers and startup founde...
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Aweare aims to tackle climate change at its root - overconsumption. Sea levels rising, global warming, extreme weather conditions - these are all symptoms of what centuries of buying these we don't need has resulted in. Our global efforts to combat climate change are slower because consumers and businesses are pushing ...
## 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...
## Inspiration Across the globe, a critical shortage of qualified teachers poses a significant challenge to education. The average student-to-teacher ratio in primary schools worldwide stands at an alarming **23:1!** In some regions of Africa, this ratio skyrockets to an astonishing **40:1**. [Research 1](https://data...
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## Inspiration Students are often put into a position where they do not have the time nor experience to effectively budget their finances. This unfortunately leads to many students falling into debt, and having a difficult time keeping up with their finances. That's where wiSpend comes to the rescue! Our objective is ...
## Inspiration The idea of Fizz inspired us and motivated us to work on a simple yet intuitive budgeting solution that can be used by students especially teens. ## What it does Fizzy is a simple yet seamless way for teens to have a track of their expenses and visualize them through graphs and charts. Fizzy also prov...
## Inspiration Have you ever wondered if your outfit looks good on you? Have you ever wished you did not have to spend so much time trying on your whole closet, taking a photo of yourself and sending it to your friends for some advice? Have you ever wished you had worn a jacket because it was much windier than you tho...
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## Inspiration As developers, we were on a mission to create something truly extraordinary. Something that would change the way people approach to fashion and make getting dressed in the morning an easier and more enjoyable experience. Introducing Rate My Fit, our revolutionary AI software program that rates people's...
## 💡 **Inspiration** The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of the fast fashion industry, revealing its unsustainable practices that left over 70 million garment workers without pay. In response, we developed our virtual try-on app to advocate sustainability and equality in fashion. Our platform enables users t...
## MoodBox ### Smart DJ'ing using Facial Recognition You're hosting a party with your friends. You want to play the hippest music and you’re scared of your friends judging you for your taste in music. You ask your friends what songs they want to listen to… And only one person replies with that one Bruno Mars song th...
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## Inspiration While attending Hack the 6ix, our team had a chance to speak to Advait from the Warp team. We got to learn about terminals and how he got involved with Warp, as well as his interest in developing something completely new for the 21st century. Through this interaction, my team decided we wanted to make a...
## Inspiration [Cursorless](https://www.cursorless.org/) is a voice interface for manipulating text (e.g., code). We saw its potential as a bold new interface for text editing. However, it is very unintuitive and learning Cursorless amounts to learning a new language, with unnatural and complicated syntax. This was th...
## Inspiration Let's face it: Museums, parks, and exhibits need some work in this digital era. Why lean over to read a small plaque when you can get a summary and details by tagging exhibits with a portable device? There is a solution for this of course: NFC tags are a fun modern technology, and they could be used to ...
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## Program incentives I embarked on the journey of creating the Narsingdee Biggan Club web application, driven by my passion for programming and love for creative projects. My toolbox for this endeavor included ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, CSS3, HTML5, and a bunch of other technologies. ## What motivates you Programming...
# OhMyDog OhMyDog is an app developed as part of an initiative to improve the living conditions of animals across the world. As a 100% non-profit project, OhMyDog directs all of its ad revenue towards enabling our volunteers to shelter, feed, and take care of animals in need. As an app, OhMyDog teaches its users some...
## Inspiration Video games evolved when the Xbox Kinect was released in 2010 but for some reason we reverted back to controller based games. We are here to bring back the amazingness of movement controlled games with a new twist- re innovating how mobile games are played! ## What it does AR.cade uses a body part det...
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## Inspiration Coming from South-East Asia, we have seen the devastation that natural disasters can wreck havoc on urban populations We wanted to create a probe that can assist on-site Search and Rescue team members to detect and respond to nearby survivors ## What it does Each Dandelyon probe detects changes in it...
## Inspiration In times of disaster, the capacity of rigid networks like cell service and internet dramatically decreases at the same time demand increases as people try to get information and contact loved ones. This can lead to crippled telecom services which can significantly impact first responders in disaster str...
## Inspiration We're students, and that means one of our biggest inspirations (and some of our most frustrating problems) come from a daily ritual - lectures. Some professors are fantastic. But let's face it, many professors could use some constructive criticism when it comes to their presentation skills. Whether it's...
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## 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 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 ...
## Inspiration Wanted to build a fun app that combined the fun of gifs with the hard headlines of the finance world ## What it does The Funancial Times is a news site built for the 21st century. In today's ridiculous economic and political climate, we strived to make a feed that could adequately describe current hea...
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## Inspiration In Vancouver, we are lucky to be surrounded by local markets, seafood vendors, and farms. As students we noticed that most people around us fall into habit of shopping from large supermarket chains such as Costco, Walmart, Superstore, which import foods full of preservatives from faraway distribution ce...
## Inspiration Students are running low on motivation to do schoolwork since lockdown / the pandemic. This site is designed to help students be more motivated to finish classes by providing a better sense of accomplishment and urgency to schoolwork. ## What it does Provides a way for students to keep track and stay ...
# Megafind ## Summary Megafind is a webapp based platform for hosting live lecture sessions. Professors can begin a session that students in the lecture can join using some provided passcode. Upon joining the live session, students gain access to multiple features that provide an enhanced lecture experience. The dash...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the resilience of freelancers, particularly creative designers, during the pandemic. As students, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and not value our own work. We wanted to empower emerging designers and remind them of what we can do with a little bit of courage. And support. ## What it...
## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
## Inspiration *Our project, Chill Chat, was inspired by the growing need for accessible and empathetic mental health support. We wanted to create a platform that could provide comfort and guidance to individuals seeking emotional well-being, especially in times of stress or anxiety. The increasing popularity of AI-po...
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## Inspiration ✨ It can be hard to find the motivation to study, especially when social media suffocates you with an endless stream of distractions, leaving very little time for yourself. And with modern pressures to stay in the moment, balancing your social presence and self-improvement is becoming increasingly diffi...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for Smart Sprout came from our passion for both technology and gardening. We wanted to create a solution that not only makes plant care more convenient but also promotes sustainability by efficiently using water resources. ## What it does Smart Sprout is an innovative self-watering pla...
## Inspiration We often found ourselves stuck at the start of the design process, not knowing where to begin or how to turn our ideas into something real. In large organisations these issues are not only inconvenient and costly, but also slow down development. That is why we created ConArt AI to make it easier. It hel...
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## Inspiration Peer-review is critical to modern science, engineering, and healthcare endeavors. However, the system for implementing this process has lagged behind and results in expensive costs for publishing and accessing material, long turn around times reminiscent of snail-mail, and shockingly opaque editorial pr...
## Inspiration It’s Friday afternoon, and as you return from your final class of the day cutting through the trailing winds of the Bay, you suddenly remember the Saturday trek you had planned with your friends. Equipment-less and desperate you race down to a nearby sports store and fish out $$$, not realising that the...
## Inspiration We all spend too much money on Starbucks, except for Arri, whose guilty pleasure is a secret that he won't tell us. ## What it does Have you ever shopped at a disorganized grocery store where prices tags are all over the place? Or gone into a cafe that doesn't list its prices on the menu? *cough Starb...
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# Inspiration When we ride a cycle we to steer the cycle towards the direction we fall, and that's how we balance. But the amazing part is we(or our brain) compute a complex set of calculations to balance ourselves. And that we do it naturally. With some practice it gets better. The calculation in our mind that goes o...
## 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 Parking services suck!! They are expensive! We want better. We need better. ## What it does Through an Android App built using Google Maps, Firebase, Places, we offer a solution for people to put out their residential parking spots to other clients for a fee. Just like AirBnb, but except for parking. ...
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## Inspiration Nutritional labels tell you about the % of the daily recommended nutrients and vitamins the food you consume provides you with. Now, what if there was also a way to track the environmental impact of the food you consume? The Footprint app allows its users to scan grocery store items and get their estima...
## Inspiration Of all the mammals on Earth, only 4% are wild; the remaining 96% are livestock and humans. For birds only 30% are wild, the rest being chickens and poultry (Bar-On et al., 2018). Food, Agriculture, and Land Use directly account for 24% of greenhouse gas sources, more than Transportation (14%), Industry...
**In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.** ## Inspiration Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen...
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## Inspiration An Article, about 86 per cent of Canada's plastic waste ends up in landfill, a big part due to Bad Sorting. We thought it shouldn't be impossible to build a prototype for a Smart bin. ## What it does The Smart bin is able, using Object detection, to sort Plastic, Glass, Metal, and Paper We see all ar...
## 💡 Inspiration 💯 Have you ever faced a trashcan with a seemingly endless number of bins, each one marked with a different type of recycling? Have you ever held some trash in your hand, desperately wondering if it can be recycled? Have you ever been forced to sort your trash in your house, the different bins taking...
## Inspiration Navigating to multiple destinations can be a hassle when the functionality isn't supported by your favorite navigation app. Choosing the order of destinations that would have the least impact on your trip time, is also difficult to do at a glance. We wanted a simple way to navigate through a set of erra...
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## Inspiration Over one-fourth of Canadians during their lifetimes will have to deal with water damage in their homes. This is an issue that causes many Canadians overwhelming stress from the sheer economical and residential implications. As an effort to assist and solve these very core issues, we have designed a sol...
## 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 As the imperative to reduce carbon emissions intensifies, businesses are increasingly adopting innovative approaches to shrink their carbon footprint. One such approach, carbon offsetting, has grown into a [$5.5 billion industry](https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjel/article/view/10442), ...
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## Inspiration Travelling can be a pain. You have to look up attractions ahead of time and spend tons of time planning out what to do. Shouldn't travel be fun, seamless and stress-free? ## What it does SightSee takes care of the annoying part of travel. You start by entering the city that you're visiting, your hotel...
## Inspiration Planning vacations can be hard. Traveling is a very fun experience but often comes with a lot of stress of curating the perfect itinerary with all the best sights to see, foods to eat, and shows to watch. You don't want to miss anything special, but you also want to make sure the trip is still up your a...
![alt text](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974437158834282577/974980085201387540/unknown.png) ## 💡INSPIRATION💡 Our team is from Ontario and BC, two provinces that have been hit HARD by the opioid crisis in Canada. Over **4,500 Canadians under the age of 45** lost their lives through overdosing during 2021, ...
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## Inspiration Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder that affects 5-10% of the female population due to an imbalance of hormones. Women that experience PCOS have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anxiety, and depression. Like a lot of women's disorders, it’s common f...
## Inspiration Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o...
## Inspiration Have either of the following happened to you? * Ever since elementary school you've been fascinated by 17th century Turkish ethnography. Luckily, you just discovered a preeminent historian's blog about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Overjoyed, you start to text your friends, but soon remember that...
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## 💡 Inspiration 💡 Have you ever wished you could play the piano perfectly? Well, instead of playing yourself, why not get Ludwig to play it for you? Regardless of your ability to read sheet music, just upload it to Ludwig and he'll scan, analyze, and play the entire sheet music within the span of a few seconds! Som...
## Inspiration There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1...
## Inspiration Watching the news and hearing the stories of people whose lives were ruined by felony convictions. Many ex-felons find it difficult to reintegrate with society due to lack of resources/opportunities. A small amount of cash will help them readjust to normal life. ## What it does It uses the power of bl...
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## Inspiration Grasping the emotions people display through text can be really important data for the companies they address. We found this really interesting and saw a lot of potential in using this program to help companies ease their social media presence. We also really wanted to learn and implement google cloud A...
## Inspiration Our team became curious about the concept of sentiment analysis after stumbling across it in the HuggingFace API documentation. After discussing the various real life problems to which sentiment analysis could be applied, we decided that we would build a general platform in which a user could freely det...
## Inspiration We're computer science students, need we say more? ## What it does "Single or Nah" takes in the name of a friend and predicts if they are in a relationship, saving you much time (and face) in asking around. We pull relevant Instagram data including posts, captions, and comments to drive our Azure-powe...
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## My Samy helps: **Young marginalized students** * Anonymous process: Ability to ask any questions anonymously without feeling judged * Get relevant resources: More efficient process for them to ask for help and receive immediately relevant information and resources * Great design and user interface: Easy to use pla...
## Inspiration We got together a team passionate about social impact, and all the ideas we had kept going back to loneliness and isolation. We have all been in high pressure environments where mental health was not prioritized and we wanted to find a supportive and unobtrusive solution. After sharing some personal sto...
## Inspiration What happens when you throw 3 Carleton students into a 36 hour hackathon with a Waterloo student? For us, it was Note Padd (triple entendre - can you find all 3 meanings?), a web application that takes text and composes a song from it. The idea was pitched as a interesting way of exploring natural langu...
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## **Inspiration** Ever had to wipe your hands constantly to search for recipes and ingredients while cooking? Ever wondered about the difference between your daily nutrition needs and the nutrition of your diets? Vocal Recipe is an integrated platform where users can easily find everything they need to know about hom...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
## Inspiration We got into a debate about our hackathon idea. One thing lead to another, and we built YapBot! ## What it does * **Smart Argument Generation**: Yapbot analyzes your debate topic and delivers well-structured arguments that are both compelling and effective. * **Real-Time Suggestions**: Get instant feed...
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## 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 ...
## 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 With the recent scare of Hurricane Florence, we wanted to create a system to more quickly identify people needing aid in disaster-stricken areas. ## What it does Safety Net is an application designed to run in cooperation with a swarm of drones. Search and Rescue drones are already becoming commonplac...
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## Inspiration Google Glass was, and always will be, one of the most magical advancements in wearable, intelligent technology. With recent advances in mobile processing power and computer vision techniques, the team was driven to combine ideas of the past with technologies of the present to solve complex, yet critical...
# 💥 - How it all started As students, we always try to optimize everything from our study habits to our sleep schedules. But above all, we agreed that the most important thing to optimize was also the most neglected: health. After a careful look into the current status of health-tracking apps, we noticed a few main p...
## Inspiration \_ "According to Portio Research, the world will send 8.3 trillion SMS messages this year alone – 23 billion per day or almost 16 million per minute. According to Statistic Brain, the number of SMS messages sent monthly increased by more than 7,700% over the last decade" \_ The inspiration for TextNet ...
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## 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 Creating user interfaces doesn't come easy to everyone. We wanted to make prototyping designs quick and easy. Optical character recognition was one of the major features we wanted to implement into our program. ## What it does * Handwritten or computer generated text is analyzed * Convert analysis to ...
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[Example brainrot output](https://youtube.com/shorts/vmTmjiyBTBU) [Demo](https://youtu.be/W5LNiKc7FB4) ## Inspiration Graphic design is a skill like any other, that if honed, allows us to communicate and express ourselves in marvellous ways. To do so, it's massively helpful to receive specific feedback on your desig...
## Inspiration memes have become a cultural phenomenon and a huge recreation for many young adults including ourselves. for this hackathon, we decided to connect the sociability aspect of the popular site "twitter", and combine it with a methodology of visualizing the activity of memes in various neighborhoods. we hop...
## Inspiration 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?...
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## Inspiration To set our goal, we were grandly inspired by the Swiss system, which has proven to be one of the most functional democracy in the world. In Switzerland, there is a free mobile application, VoteInfo, which is managed by a governmental institution, but is not linked to any political groups, where infos ab...
## Inspiration Everyone on our team comes from a family of newcomers and just as it is difficult to come into a new country, we had to adapt very quickly to the Canadian system. Our team took this challenge as an opportunity to create something that our communities could deeply benefit from when they arrive in Canada....
Welcome to our demo video for our hack “Retro Readers”. This is a game created by our two man team including myself Shakir Alam and my friend Jacob Cardoso. We are both heading into our senior year at Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School and enjoyed participating in our first hackathon ever, Hack The 6ix a tremendous a...
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# Healthy.ly An android app that can show if a food is allergic to you just by clicking its picture. It can likewise demonstrate it's health benefits, ingredients, and recipes. ## Inspiration We are a group of students from India. The food provided here is completely new to us and we don't know the ingredients. One ...
## 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 Whenever friends and I want to hang out, we always ask about our schedule. Trying to find a free spot could take a long time when I am with a group of friends. I wanted to create an app that simplifies that process. ## What it does The website will ask the duration of the event and ask to fill out eac...
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## What it does Using Blender's API and a whole lot of math, we've created a service that allows you to customize and perfectly fit 3D models to your unique dimensions. No more painstaking adjustments and wasted 3D prints necessary, simply select your print, enter your sizes, and download your fitted prop within a few...
## 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...
## Inspiration Like most university students, we understand and experience the turbulence that comes with relocating every 4 months due to coop sequences while keeping personal spendings to a minimum. It is essential for students to be able to obtain an affordable and effortless way to release their stresses and have ...
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## Inspiration When the first experimental COVID-19 vaccine became available in China, hundreds of people started queuing outside hospitals, waiting to get that vaccine. Imagine this on a planetary scale when the whole everybody has to be vaccinated all around the world. There's a big chance while queuing they can spr...
## Inspiration No one likes waiting around too much, especially when we feel we need immediate attention. 95% of people in hospital waiting rooms tend to get frustrated over waiting times and uncertainty. And this problem affects around 60 million people every year, just in the US. We would like to alleviate this prob...
## Inspiration On campus, students are always overly stressed. To promote the well-being of students on campus, or people in general, we created this little app to help everyone de-stress! ## What it does This is a game that let people create their own figure "homework man", and can animate the figure by pressing th...
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## Inspiration The bitalino system is a great new advance in affordable, do-it-yourself biosignals technology. Using this technology, we want to make an application that provides an educational tool to exploring how the human body works. ## What it does Currently, it uses the ServerBIT architecture to get ECG signal...
## 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. #...
## Summary OrganSafe is a revolutionary web application that tackles the growing health & security problem of black marketing of donated organs. The verification of organ recipients leverages the Ethereum Blockchain to provide critical security and prevent improper allocation for such a pivotal resource. ## Inspirati...
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Recommends exercises in real-time as the user is exercising based on their heart rate.
## Inspiration We often do homework late when there are no TA hours scheduled, so we were thinking that having an easy way to reach out to tutors to get homework help would be very efficient and appreciated. ## What it does It authenticates users with GAuth, asks them about whether they want to be a tutor or student...
## Inspiration Remember the thrill of watching mom haggle like a pro at the market? Those nostalgic days might seem long gone, but here's the twist: we can help you carry out the generational legacy. Introducing our game-changing app – it's not just a translator, it’s your haggling sidekick. This app does more than br...
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## Inspiration A teammate's near-death experience on a bicycle triggered a months-long quest for knowledge regarding the policies and civic infrastructure that continuously neglect the needs of cyclists -- and consequentially our environment/society -- while catering to the hundreds of thousands of cars congesting and...
## Inspiration Parker was riding his bike down Commonwealth Avenue on his way to work this summer when a car pulled out of nowhere and hit his front tire. Lucky, he wasn't hurt, he saw his life flash before his eyes in that moment and it really left an impression on him. (His bike made it out okay as well, other than ...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Building domain-specific automated systems in the real world is painstaking, requiring massive codebases for exception handling and robust testing of behavior for all kinds of contingencies — automated packaging, drone delivery, home surveillance, and search and rescue are all enormously complex and res...
## Inspiration ## What it does ## It searches for a water Bottle! ## How we built it ## We built it using a roomba, raspberrypi with a picamera, python, and Microsoft's Custom Vision ## Challenges we ran into ## Attaining wireless communications between the pi and all of our PCs was tricky. Implementing Microsoft...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Our team became curious about the concept of sentiment analysis after stumbling across it in the HuggingFace API documentation. After discussing the various real life problems to which sentiment analysis could be applied, we decided that we would build a general platform in which a user could freely det...
## Inspiration It is a data-feeding world and we need to sift through data and get what we need and we could use. Sentiment and topic analysis are the tools that used for companies to collect and analyze the customer feedback in order for them to better understand the data trend and make associated plannings for impro...
## Inspiration “**Social media sucks these days.**” — These were the first few words we heard from one of the speakers at the opening ceremony, and they struck a chord with us. I’ve never genuinely felt good while being on my phone, and like many others I started viewing social media as nothing more than a source of ...
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## Inspiration With the COVID-19 crisis, it has become more difficult to connect with others so we thought of having music being a simple icebreaker in conversations. ## What it does Muse is a website that combines music streaming and social networking to allow users to meet each other with similar musical interests...
## Inspiration 💭 [From Spotify](https://ads.spotify.com/en-GB/news-and-insights/audio-therapy/) We set out at Delta Hacks X to make a project that would be *fun* to use. More importantly, however, we wanted to make a project that would help people. We wanted to connect people through a shared medium, and the most ob...
# Delta Draw Watch the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDX5sQmFqY8) ## Project Description: 1. A **mechanical shell** with 3D printed gondolas and a motor-guided marker 2. An **image-processing pipeline** that determines how to draw uploaded images start-to-finish 3. A **Web-based HMI** that allows images to...
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## Inspiration Everyone gets tired waiting for their large downloads to complete. BitTorrent is awesome, but you may not have a bunch of peers ready to seed it. Fastify, a download accelerator as a service, solves both these problems and regularly enables 4x download speeds. ## What it does The service accepts a URL...
![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43010710/219844570-3b4ff1c1-0bec-4009-a7b1-0c73eedf5789.png) ## Problem Statement 💡 The modern electronic health record (EHR) encompasses a treasure trove of information across patient demographics, medical history, clinical data, and other health system interactions (Je...
![Tech Diagram](https://i.ibb.co/StWfp3V/Princeton-1.jpg) ## Inspiration With the rise of non-commission brokerages, more teens are investing their hard-earned money in the stock market. I started using apps such as Robinhood when I was in high school, but I had no idea what stocks to buy. Trading securities has a ve...
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## Inspiration Every musician knows that moment of confusion, that painful silence as onlookers shuffle awkward as you frantically turn the page of the sheet music in front of you. While large solo performances may have people in charge of turning pages, for larger scale ensemble works this obviously proves impractica...
## Inspiration Globally, one in ten people do not know how to interpret their feelings. There's a huge global shift towards sadness and depression. At the same time, AI models like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion are creating beautiful works of art, completely automatically. Our team saw the opportunity to leverage AI ima...
## Inspiration Have you ever thought that BeReal's are too fake? An app built to challenge the unrealistic beauty standards set by typical social media turned into one of the giants it aimed to destroy. With BrainbeatReal we capture the real "you". Our state of the art social media platform prompts you to take a pictu...
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## Inspiration Over the past 30 years, the percentage American adults who read literature has dropped about 14%. We found our inspiration. The issue we discovered is that due to the rise of modern technologies, movies and other films are more captivating than reading a boring book. We wanted to change that. ## What i...
# CodaCat ## How to run: * Clone the package * Pull from anas-dev and dev to get all the packages * Run **npm run postinstall** of the root to install dependencies of all subclasses * Navigate to each exercise and run command **npm run start** ## CodaCat is the perfect place for children to learn about coding with C...
## Inspiration The internet is filled with user-generated content, and it has become increasingly difficult to manage and moderate all of the text that people are producing on a platform. Large companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit leverage their massive scale and abundance of resources to aid in their modera...
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## Inspiration The simple purpose of this project was to create something helpful but also fun. Inspired by theremin, this instrument requires no physical contact to play. Thus, it is great for people who cannot play an instrument due to disorders like arthritis or Parkinsons. Additionally, it is helpful for developin...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was to improve the learning experience with technology through inuitive controls, efficient motions and minimal design. We also recognize the diversity of learning styles different individuals possess and wanted to push the boundaries of conventional learning. ## What it does We used t...
## Inspiration After learning about the current shortcomings of disaster response platforms, we wanted to build a modernized emergency services system to assist relief organizations and local governments in responding faster and appropriately. ## What it does safeFront is a cross between next-generation 911 and disa...
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## Inspiration At the start of this hackathon, our entire team began by brainstorming a plethora of ideas on the whiteboard. We spent numerous hours ideating, debating and voting on the one idea that we thought would not only be the most innovative hackathon project but also attempt to tackle an emerging technology th...
## Inspiration Sometimes we will wake up in the morning and realize that we want to go for a short jog but don't want to be out for too long. Therefore it would be helpful to know how long the route is so we can anticipate the time we would spend. Google Maps does have a feature where we can input various destinations...
## Inspiration A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s...
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## Inspiration:- The inspiration behind Eat-O-Pia comes from its name, which is to build a utopia for healthy eaters. Unhealthy dietary habits and their detrimental impact on the human body is a profound concern challenging today’s generation. According to WHO, unhealthy diets are one of the leading risk factors for d...
## Inspiration: It's time that everyone became less confused about how to eat right. We thought this was the perfect opportunity to explore solutions. ## What it does: This iOS app automates meal recommendations based on the the user's inputted characteristics, medical condition, and goals. Many of us face decision fa...
## Inspiration We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students ## What it does The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid. #...
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# yhack JuxtaFeeling is a Flask web application that visualizes the varying emotions between two different people having a conversation through our interactive graphs and probability data. By using the Vokaturi, IBM Watson, and Indicoio APIs, we were able to analyze both written text and audio clips to detect the emot...
## Inspiration When visiting a clinic, two big complaints that we have are the long wait times and the necessity to use a kiosk that thousands of other people have already touched. We also know that certain methods of filling in information are not accessible to everyone (For example, someone with Parkinsons disease w...
## Inspiration As students and programmers we can spend countless iterations and follow ups prompting ChatGPT to give us the answer that we are looking for. Often before we reach a working solution we've already used up our tokens for ChatGPT 4.0. Not only is prompting time consuming, but also token-consuming. Thus, w...
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## 🤔 Problem Statement * The complexity of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can be intimidating for many potential users. * According to a survey by Finder, 36% of Americans are not familiar with cryptocurrencies, and 29% find it too complicated to understand. * BitBuddy aims to create an easy-to-use, AI-driv...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for TeddyTalk stems from the desire to create a magical and educational companion for children. In a world where technology is advancing rapidly, we wanted to apply the power of artificial intelligence to stimulate learning and communication in a friendly manner. Acknowledging that brain...
## Inspiration How many times have you been in a lecture in person or online and wished that you could discuss the current topic with someone since you're having a hard time understanding in real-time? How many times have you taken a picture of the whiteboard to look at it later but never ended up studying from it? Wh...
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## Inspiration I tried to find any sort of backend tools to build apis with python, but there are none! So I made my own. This was my original design for a no trus ![PlantUML](https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/VP1H2i8m38RVUufTO3SG6NEFFWZJ0uGiRc6raJJp_BR3Gl5XUKk-_EGZNJHGsrxUEJS8ckX8-Y5jsdFJUy4L5-3WRc1CmGgRZkWfmL4y...
## Inspiration We know investing can be scary for finance newbies. How about sparing 1% of every transaction? Even in a digital-only bank, clients will *always* want to make sound decisions and feel secure in their investments. With ISET, we *ensure* that this fundamental goal is met. ## What it does Every time you...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Ubisoft's challenge (a matter of time) + VR gaming + Epic anime protagonists ## What it does It entertains (and it's good at it too!) ## How we built it Unity, C#, Oculus SDK ## Challenges we ran into Time crunch, limited assets, sleep debt ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Playable game ma...
## Inspiration What inspired us to build this application was spreading mental health awareness in relationship with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic around the world. While it is easy to brush off signs of fatigue and emotional stress as just "being tired", often times, there is a deeper problem at the root of it. We de...
## Inspiration While working with a Stanford PhD student to do work in Natural Language Processing, I was pointed to a paper that outlines a lightweight model which very effectively translates between languages. The average size for the saved weights of TensorFlow models are only about 5KB. Suddenly, it hit me--**what...
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## Inspiration We have a problem! We have a new generation of broke philanthropists. The majority of students do not have a lot of spare cash so it can be challenging for them to choose between investing in their own future or the causes that they believe in to build a better future for others. On the other hand, la...
# Course Connection ## Inspiration College is often heralded as a defining time period to explore interests, define beliefs, and establish lifelong friendships. However the vibrant campus life has recently become endangered as it is becoming easier than ever for students to become disconnected. The previously guarant...
What if every startup could harness the power of 1,000 Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs or 500 AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs, at a fraction of the cost? While big tech companies can afford to spend millions of dollars on their GPU infrastructure, small developers and startups are left struggling to access affordable computational power n...
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## Overview People today are as connected as they've ever been, but there are still obstacles in communication, particularly for people who are deaf/mute and can not communicate by speaking. Our app allows bi-directional communication between people who use sign language and those who speak. You can use your device's...
## Inspiration Both chronic pain disorders and opioid misuse are on the rise, and the two are even more related than you might think -- over 60% of people who misused prescription opioids did so for the purpose of pain relief. Despite the adoption of PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) in 49 states, the US s...
## **Inspiration** 1/5 elderly Canadians feel isolated as a result of their environment. In an everchanging world, society often forgets about the people that built the present world we live in. Elderly people constantly battle between the desire to connect with the changing society around them whilst worrying that th...
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# Trusty Paws ## Inspiration We believe that every pet deserves to find a home. Animal shelters have often had to euthanize animals due to capacity issues and lack of adoptions. Our objective with Trusty Paws is to increase the rate of adoptions of these animals by increasing the exposure of shelters to potential pet...
## Inspiration Let's be honest. Sometimes, we have a paper cup, and we look at both the trash can and the recycling bin. We might throw the paper cup away in the trash because the recycling is just a little further. I'm definitely a culprit. Our team set out to invent a fun perception of recycling by creating a digit...
## Inspiration No one likes waiting around too much, especially when we feel we need immediate attention. 95% of people in hospital waiting rooms tend to get frustrated over waiting times and uncertainty. And this problem affects around 60 million people every year, just in the US. We would like to alleviate this prob...
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## Inspiration One of the biggest challenges faced by families in war effected countries was receiving financial support from their family members abroad. High transaction fees, lack of alternatives and a lack of transparency all contributed to this problem, leaving families struggling to make ends meet. According to...
## Inspiration One of our team members was in the evacuation warning zone for the raging California fires in the Bay Area just a few weeks ago. Part of their family's preparation for this disaster included the tiresome, tedious, time-sensitive process of listing every item in their house for insurance claims in the ev...
## Inspiration Beer pong is a popular hobby among university students, however it can get boring. We decided to add another level of difficulty and interactiveness to the game. ## What it does Our beer pong setup, rotates the cups and uses sensors to determine which cups are left. Each round a random remaining cup i...
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## What is Smile? Smile is a web app that makes you smile! Studies show that smiling, even a forced one is proven to help with mental health. Our app makes sure you get your smiles in, alongside prompting you to come up with positive affirmances about yourself. Our app provides a quick, easy, and re-usable set of too...
## Inspiration Too many times have broke college students looked at their bank statements and lament on how much money they could've saved if they had known about alternative purchases or savings earlier. ## What it does SharkFin helps people analyze and improve their personal spending habits. SharkFin uses bank sta...
## Inspiration Thinking back to going to the mall every weekend to hang out with friends, I realized that ecommerce can sometimes be a tiresome and lonely time. Furthermore shopping online tends to give you a disconnected feeling where you end up mindlessly shopping and completely overshooting your budget. Taking the...
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## Inspiration * A plethora of students spend enormous amounts of money on building their career. Whether it's on education, online courses, career counsellors and what not! We built this platform with a vision to help students who are at the initial stages of their careers to make a more informed decision on where th...
## Inspiration As students, we know navigating a career path is often confusing and overwhelming, especially when geographical location, access to resources, and personal background create additional barriers. We were inspired by the challenges that many people face when trying to advance in their careers, particularl...
# coTA 🐒👀 Monkey see Monkey Learn 🙉🧠 -- scroll and absorb lectures! 📚 ## 💡 Inspiration Do you spend hours on social media platforms? Have you noticed the addictive nature of short-form videos? Have you ever found yourself remembering random facts or content from these videos? Do you ever get lost in those subw...
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## Inspiration Grip strength has been shown to be a powerful biomarker for numerous physiological processes. Two particularly compelling examples are Central Nervous System (CNS) fatigue and overall propensity for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). The core idea is not about building a hand grip strengthening tool, as this...
## Why Type 2 diabetes can be incredibly tough, especially when it leads to complications. I've seen it firsthand with my uncle, who suffers from peripheral neuropathy. Watching him struggle with insensitivity in his feet, having to go to the doctor regularly for new insoles just to manage the pain and prevent further...
Valentine’s Day can be tough. Those without a special someone often feel alone and this made us think back to the simpler childhood days of Valentine’s grams. Back then, something as simple as a message from a friend could change our world. Our project is a literal manifestation of that concept. While one user is in a ...
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## Bringing your music to life, not just to your ears but to your eyes 🎶 ## Inspiration 🍐 Composing music through scribbling notes or drag-and-dropping from MuseScore couldn't be more tedious. As pianists ourselves, we know the struggle of trying to bring our impromptu improvisation sessions to life without forgett...
## 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 Everyone loves music, but finding new music can be a difficult task. We found that music websites, such as Spotify, emphasize recommendations similar to what we currently enjoy, but don't address the music that we don't enjoy. As a result, we wanted to come up with an app that recommends songs not neces...
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# Inspiration As a team we decided to develop a service that we thought would not only be extremely useful to us, but to everyone around the world that struggles with storing physical receipts. We were inspired to build an eco friendly as well as innovative application that targets the pain points behind filing receip...
## Inspiration One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi...
## Inspiration 💡 Our inspiration stemmed from a desire to empower 💪 elderly individuals who may struggle with memory loss to live more independently and confidently in their own homes. We recognized the importance of creating a solution that not only addresses the practical challenge of finding objects but also prov...
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## Inspiration After considering what hackathon project to pursue, our team, JAKT, encountered a common obstacle that visually impaired individuals face: their struggle with interacting with technology and our dynamic society. While there are existing solutions, they are expensive, bulky, and therefore inaccessible to...
## Inspiration A member of our core team is very close with his cousin who is severely disabled. Thus, we approached YHack with a social conscious Hack that would assist those who don't have the same opportunities to attend Hackathons as we do. Although our peers who are visually impaired use current methods and techn...
## Inspiration Between 1994 and 2013 there were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In many of these disasters, people don't know where to go, and where is safe. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, many people learned about dangers such as ...
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# DriveWise: Building a Safer Future in Route Planning Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens, with over a third of teen fatalities resulting from traffic accidents. This represents one of the most pressing public safety issues today. While many route-planning algorithms exist, most prioritiz...
## Inspiration 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 ...
## Inspiration ``` We all love games, and we wanted to create a bot which could amplify the users’ experience on discord by turning their server into an MMO community, with the rpg creation feature allowing the server’s admins to create endless content for the other server members to enjoy. ``` ## What it does ``` ...
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## Inspiration Our goal was to create a system that could improve both a shopper's experience and a business's profit margin. People waste millions of hours every year waiting in supermarket lines and businesses need to spend a significant amount of money on upkeep, staffing, and real estate for checkout lines and sta...
## Inspiration Initially, our team was interested in exploring generative AI and Virtual Reality and how it could be integrated into one’s lifestyle to simplify a niche task. However, after a thorough conversation with representatives (shout out Neal) at Careyaya, we realized there was an incredibly neglected and unta...
## Inspiration How many times have you went on a website, looked at the length of the content and decided that it was not worth your time to read the entire page? The inspiration for my project comes from this exact problem. Imagine how much easier it would be if website owners could automatically generate a summary o...
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## Inspiration As OEMs(Original equipment manufacturers) and consumers keep putting on brighter and brighter lights, this can be blinding for oncoming traffic. Along with the fatigue and difficulty judging distance, it becomes increasingly harder to drive safely at night. Having an extra pair of night vision would be ...
# talko Hello! talko is a project for nwHacks 2022. Interviews can be scary, but they don't have to be! We believe that practice and experience is what gives you the confidence you need to show interviewers what you're made of. talko is made for students and new graduates who want to learn to fully express their skil...
## Inspiration The original inspiration came from the popular augmented-reality Android-based game "Ingress", in which random strangers around the world team up in factions in the game in order to achieve certain objectives in real life. We took the fundamental augmented-reality (and teamwork!) concept of "Ingress" an...
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## Mafia Mafia is a party game for a group of friends to get together and yell and lie at each other. It is incredibly fun, and I play all of the time with my friends and family. During the game of mafia, there are townspeople and mafia members, and each group seeks to kill off the other. The mafia are the informed mi...
## Inspiration *Mafia*, also known as *Werewolf*, is a classic in-person party game that university and high school students play regularly. It's been popularized by hit computer games such as Town of Salem and Epic Mafia that serve hundreds of thousands of players, but where these games go *wrong* is that they replac...
*Everything in this project was completed during TreeHacks.* *By the way, we've included lots of hidden fishy puns in our writeup! Comment how many you find!* ## TL; DR * Illegal overfishing is a massive issue (**>200 billion fish**/year), disrupting global ecosystems and placing hundreds of species at risk of extinc...
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## Inspiration Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ...
## Inspiration Cliff is dyslexic, so reading is difficult and slow for him and makes school really difficult. But, he loves books and listens to 100+ audiobooks/yr. However, most books don't have an audiobook, especially not textbooks for schools, and articles that are passed out in class. This is an issue not only fo...
## Inspiration Vision is perhaps our most important sense; we use our sight every waking moment to navigate the world safely, to make decisions, and to connect with others. As such, keeping our eyes healthy is extremely important to our quality of life. In spite of this, we often neglect to get our vision tested regul...
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Handling personal finances can be a challenging task, and there doesn't exist a natural user experience for engaging with your money. Online banking portals and mobile apps are one-off interactions that don't help people manage their money over the long term. We solved this problem with Alex. We built Alex with the go...
## Inspiration and What it does We often go out with a lot of amazing friends for trips, restaurants, tourism, weekend expedition and what not. Every encounter has an associated messenger groupchat. We want a way to split money which is better than to discuss on the groupchat, ask people their public key/usernames and...
## Inspiration Picture this: we were lining up for dinner on the first day of the hackathon, thinking about how hungry we were. And then it hit us: what if we did something about food? Recommending places according to your interests? Helping people explore the city by recommending locations based on their emotional st...
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## Inspiration We wanted to make a game. We both are enthusiastic about health. We decided to do nutrition. ## What it does Our game is focused around avoiding unhealthy foods and eating healthy foods. ## How we built it We used pygame package to implement GUI. And we allocated the jobs so that one was working on ...
## Nutrition-Tracker Project # Overview The Nutrition-Tracker is a comprehensive fitness tracker designed to provide detailed descriptions of various foods and keep track of the user's dietary intake. This project integrates multiple functionalities, including database management, artificial intelligence (AI), and ma...
## Inspiration Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration came from the danger of skin-related diseases, along with the rising costs of medical care. DermaFix not only provides an alternative free option for those who can't afford to visit a doctor due to financial issues but provides real-time diagnosis. ## What it does Scans and analyzes th...
We created a web application with investment price predictions across asset classes utilizing regression and an underlying mean-inversion philosophy, incorporating R, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Our basic investment approach is intelligent mean-reversion analysis. We believe that the best assets to invest in are those ...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Traffic is a pain and hurdle for everyone. It costs time and money for everyone stuck within it. We wanted to empower everyone to focus on what they truly enjoy instead of having to waste their time in traffic. We found the challenge to connect autonomous vehicles and enable them to work closely with ea...
## Inspiration We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output. ## What it does XTS takes an **X** and...
# The project HomeSentry is an open source platform that turns your old phones or any devices into a distributed security camera system. Simply install our app on any mobile device and start monitoring your home (or any other place). HomeSentry gives a new life to your old devices while bringing you the peace of mind ...
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## Inspiration We wanted to make hardware technology that allows people with visual disabilities to be able to feel as independent as anyone else. ## What it does It can direct people with visual disabilities to their desired destination and allow them to know when to take a turn and if there is a person or object i...
## Inspiration Both of us have glasses and have pretty bad vision. Even though we are nowhere near severe visually impairment, problems dealing with eyesight are things we easily relate to. We could only imagine how it felt to never be able to see properly, because even by removing our glasses, a lot of our sight is g...
## 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...
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## Inspiration a strategy and unique board game. the game 2048 gave us the idea to make a board game involving numbers. ## What it does It is game that involves thinking, some simple calculations and a bit of luck. ## How we built it Using HTML5. CSS and JS and its libraries(jQuery), we managed to create a dynamic...
## Inspiration We often see people throw garbage in the recycling, or recycling in the garbage, and wanted to, in some way, take action on that. ## What it does It educates the greater population on how to recycle, and how not to, in a gamified way. ## How we built it Most of us worked on the website; one member w...
## Inspiration We admired the convenience Honey provides for finding coupon codes. We wanted to apply the same concept except towards making more sustainable purchases online. ## What it does Recommends sustainable and local business alternatives when shopping online. ## How we built it Front-end was built with Re...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by our passion for mental health awareness, journaling, and giraffes to create Giraffirmations. During this time of isolation, we found ourselves falling into negative mindsets and allowing feelings of hopelessness to creep in. This greatly impacted our mental health and we saw that jou...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Go Desk was to take AI chatbots to the next level for SMEs and startups. We wanted to help businesses focus on growth and innovation rather than getting bogged down by repetitive customer support tasks. By automating support calls, we aim to give businesses more time to build and ...
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## Inspiration Everyone gets tired waiting for their large downloads to complete. BitTorrent is awesome, but you may not have a bunch of peers ready to seed it. Fastify, a download accelerator as a service, solves both these problems and regularly enables 4x download speeds. ## What it does The service accepts a URL...
## Inspiration You use Apple Music. Your friends all use Spotify. But you're all stuck in a car together on the way to Tahoe and have the perfect song to add to the road trip playlist. With TrainTrax, you can all add songs to the same playlist without passing the streaming device around or hassling with aux cords. Ha...
## 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...
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## Inspiration As students around 16 years old, skin conditions such as acne make us even more self-conscious than we already are. Furthermore, one of our friends is currently suffering from eczema, so we decided to make an app relating to skin care. While brainstorming for ideas, we realized that the elderly are affe...
## Inspiration Throughout Quarantine and the global pandemic that we are all currently experiencing, I have begun to reflect on my own life and health in general. We may believe we have a particular ailment when, in fact, it is actually our fear getting the best of us. But how can one be sure that the symptoms they ar...
## Window Share **Intuitive content sharing. Simply drag a program window from one computer to another.** **Seamless, local sharing** Window Share is the most intuitive way for you to share the things you enjoy with those close to you, help your co-workers on their projects, use multiple computers for optimum efficie...
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## Inspiration According to WebAim, in 2021, the top 1 million websites had an average of 51.4 accessibility errors on the homepage alone (<https://webaim.org/projects/million/>). After learning about the lack of website accessibility, we wanted to find a solution for improving the user experience for disabled individ...
## Inspiration Research shows that maximum people face mental or physical health problems due to their unhealthy daily diet or ignored symptoms at the early stages. This app will help you track your diet and your symptoms daily and provide recommendations to provide you with an overall healthy diet. We were inspired b...
## Inspiration The idea behind Halo - Virtual Companion emerged from the increasing global issue of emotional well-being, especially in today's fast-paced world where loneliness, stress, and mental health challenges have become common. Inspired by recent advances in emotionally intelligent AI and technologies like Hum...
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## Inspiration Currently the insurance claims process is quite labour intensive. A person has to investigate the car to approve or deny a claim, and so we aim to make the alleviate this cumbersome process smooth and easy for the policy holders. ## What it does Quick Quote is a proof-of-concept tool for visually eval...
## Inspiration Recognizing the disastrous effects of the auto industry on the environment, our team wanted to find a way to help the average consumer mitigate the effects of automobiles on global climate change. We felt that there was an untapped potential to create a tool that helps people visualize cars' eco-friendl...
## Inspiration As students, we wanted to generate a solution for efficient and convenient meal planning based on the weekly deals at the grocery store. The plan is to save people money and encourage people to try out new recipes at the same time. ## What it does In summary, the app combines web scraping, API integra...
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## Inspiration Have you ever had to stand in line and tediously fill out your information for contact tracing at your favorite local restaurant? Have you ever asked yourself what's the point of traffic jams at restaurants which rather than reducing the risk of contributing to the spreading of the outbreak ends up incr...
**Inspiration** Toronto ranks among the top five cities in the world with the worst traffic congestion. As both students and professionals, we faced the daily challenge of navigating this chaos and saving time on our commutes. This led us to question the accuracy of traditional navigation tools like Google Maps. We won...
# Doctors Within Borders ### A crowdsourcing app that improves first response time to emergencies by connecting city 911 dispatchers with certified civilians ## 1. The Challenge In Toronto, ambulances get to the patient in 9 minutes 90% of the time. We all know that the first few minutes after an emergency occurs ar...
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## Inspiration You see a **TON** of digital billboards at NYC Time Square. The problem is that a lot of these ads are **irrelevant** to many people. Toyota ads here, Dunkin' Donuts ads there; **it doesn't really make sense**. ## What it does I built an interactive billboard that does more refined and targeted advert...
## Inspiration Imagine a world where your best friend is standing in front of you, but you can't see them. Or you go to read a menu, but you are not able to because the restaurant does not have specialized brail menus. For millions of visually impaired people around the world, those are not hypotheticals, they are fac...
## Inspiration The inspiration for this project was both personal experience and the presentation from Ample Labs during the opening ceremony. Last summer, Ryan was preparing to run a summer computer camp and taking registrations and payment on a website. A mother reached out to ask if we had any discounts available f...
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## Inspiration According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in every 5 college students suffer from mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. This epidemic has far-reaching personal and societal consequences – increasing disease risk, fracturing relationships, and reducing workforce productivity...
## Inspiration As post secondary students, our mental health is directly affected. Constantly being overwhelmed with large amounts of work causes us to stress over these large loads, in turn resulting in our efforts and productivity to also decrease. A common occurrence we as students continuously endure is this notio...
## Inspiration As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone...
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## Inspiration Being students in a technical field, we all have to write and submit resumes and CVs on a daily basis. We wanted to incorporate multiple non-supervised machine learning algorithms to allow users to view their resumes from different lenses, all the while avoiding the bias introduced from the labeling of ...
# 🎓 **Inspiration** Entering our **junior year**, we realized we were unprepared for **college applications**. Over the last couple of weeks, we scrambled to find professors to work with to possibly land a research internship. There was one big problem though: **we had no idea which professors we wanted to contact**....
## Inspiration America's unhoused have been underserved by financial technology developments and are in an increasingly difficult situation as the world transitions to electronic payments. We wanted to build the financial infrastructure to support our homeless populations and meet them at their tech level. That's why ...
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# A-EYE 👀✏️📙 Need help improving your studying? A-EYE is an innovative study helper using **eye-tracking** technology and **facial recognition** to analyze an individual's *study productivity*. ## Inspiration Studying in different environments can significantly impact focus and productivity. We were inspired to an...
## Inspiration Through personal conversations with friends, we find that it is a common issue for our peers to dispose of uneaten food due to their inability to finish it. Most people feel that some restaurants have unexpectedly large serving sizes which they are unable to finish. After conducting some background res...
## 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...
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[Play The Game](https://gotm.io/askstudio/pandemic-hero) ## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the concern of **misinformation** surrounding **COVID-19 Vaccines** in these challenging times. As students, not only do we love to learn, but we also yearn to share the gifts of our knowledge and creativity with the wo...
## Inspiration With caffeine being a staple in almost every student’s lifestyle, many are unaware when it comes to the amount of caffeine in their drinks. Although a small dose of caffeine increases one’s ability to concentrate, higher doses may be detrimental to physical and mental health. This inspired us to create ...
## Inspiration Since this was the first hackathon for most of our group, we wanted to work on a project where we could learn something new while sticking to familiar territory. Thus we settled on programming a discord bot, something all of us have extensive experience using, that works with UiPath, a tool equally as i...
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## Inspiration In a world where refrigerators are humble white boxes merely used to store food, average and ubiquitous are the most common adjectives when describing one of the most important appliances. Several upgrades are necessary for a technology that essentially hasn't changed much since its introduction a centu...
## Inspiration As a team, we were immediately intrigued by the creative freedom involved in building a ‘useless invention’ and inspiration was drawn from the ‘useless box’ that turns itself off. We thought ‘why not have it be a robot arm and give it an equally intriguing personality?’ and immediately got to work takin...
## Inspiration Lyft's round up and donate system really inspired us here. We wanted to find a way to benefit both users and help society. We all want to give back somehow, but don't know how sometimes or maybe we want to donate, but don't really know how much to give back or if we could afford it. We wanted an easy ...
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## Inspiration We're 4 college freshmen that were expecting new experiences with interactive and engaging professors in college; however, COVID-19 threw a wrench in that (and a lot of other plans). As all of us are currently learning online through various video lecture platforms, we found out that these lectures some...
**Finding a problem** Education policy and infrastructure tend to neglect students with accessibility issues. They are oftentimes left on the backburner while funding and resources go into research and strengthening the existing curriculum. Thousands of college students struggle with taking notes in class due to variou...
## 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...
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## Inspiration We were inspired by the notion that correlation does not imply causation, and we set out to test the truth behind this statement. After spending 2 of our 1 hour brainstorming budget throwing ideas at each other, we decided on combining star alignment with machine learning. The outcome? This application....
## Inspiration University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,...
# FaceConnect ##### Never lose a connection again! Connect with anyone, any wallet, and send transactions through an image of one's face! ## Inspiration Have you ever met someone and instantly connected with them, only to realize you forgot to exchange contact information? Or, even worse, you have someone's contact ...
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## Inspiration "Thrice upon a time, our four incredible ninjas decided to attend a hackathon. After winning, some other salty ninjas decide to take them out. In order to get home and sleep after a long night of coding, our heroic ninjas must dodge incoming attacks to escape. " ## What it does Sleepy ninja allows the...
## Github REPO <https://github.com/charlesjin123/medicine-scanner> ## Inspiration We believe everyone deserves easy, safe access to their medication – yet the small fine print that often takes up hundreds to thousands of words printed on the back of medicine bottles is incredibly inaccessible for a huge market. Watc...
## Inspiration Jessica here - I came up with the idea for BusPal out of expectation that the skill has already existed. With my Amazon Echo Dot, I was already doing everything from checking the weather to turning off and on my lights with Amazon skills and routines. The fact that she could not check when my bus to sch...
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## Inspiration A homecooked chicken biriyani; Chinese dumplings on the dinner table. The only problem? We, college students, are away from home. And we deeply miss home-cooked meals. So much so, that a survey conducted on college students showed that 77% of respondents ranked home-cooked meals in the top 3 things th...
## Inspiration While attending Hack the 6ix, our team had a chance to speak to Advait from the Warp team. We got to learn about terminals and how he got involved with Warp, as well as his interest in developing something completely new for the 21st century. Through this interaction, my team decided we wanted to make a...
## Inspiration As college students who recently graduated high school in the last year or two, we know first-hand the sinking feeling that you experience when you open an envelope after your graduation, and see a gift card to a clothing store you'll never set foot into in your life. Instead, you can't stop thinking ab...
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## Inspiration As college students, we didn't know anything, so we thought about how we can change that. One way was by being smarter about the way we take care of our unused items. We all felt that our unused items could be used in better ways through sharing with other students on campus. All of us shared our items ...
## Inspiration While looking for genuine problems that we could solve, it came to our attention that recycling is actually much harder than it should be. For example, when you go to a place like Starbucks and are presented with the options of composting, recycling, or throwing away your empty coffee, it can be confusi...
## 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...
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## venturso.me ## Inspiration When you're visiting a new place, it's a hassle to plan out what your going to do. With venturso.me, you can plan your trip with the press of a button. Just enter in your point and time of departure and arrival and we will fill in all the stops in between. Don't want to visit that boring...
## Instago Instago! Your goto **travel planner app**! We're taking the most annoying parts about planning for a trip and leaving only the funnest parts to you! Just give us your destination and we'll quickly generate you a trip to the 5 most attractive tourist destinations starting at the most ideally located hotel at...
## Inspiration After witnessing the power of collectible games and card systems, our team was determined to prove that this enjoyable and unique game mechanism wasn't just some niche and could be applied to a social activity game that anyone could enjoy or use to better understand one another (taking a note from Cards...
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## 💡 Inspiration Generation Z is all about renting - buying land is simply out of our budgets. But the tides are changing: with Pocket Plots, an entirely new generation can unlock the power of land ownership without a budget. Traditional land ownership goes like this: you find a property, spend weeks negotiating a p...
## FLEX [Freelancing Linking Expertise Xchange] ## Inspiration Freelancers deserve a platform where they can fully showcase their skills, without worrying about high fees or delayed payments. Companies need fast, reliable access to talent with specific expertise to complete jobs efficiently. "FLEX" bridges the gap, e...
## Inspiration Every year thousands of companies are compromised and the authentication information for many is stolen. The consequence of such breaches is immense and damages the trust between individuals and organizations. There is significant overhead for an organization to secure it's authentication methods, often...
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## Inspiration Whether there is a fire threatening the Notre Dame, wildfires invading California's forests, or a small city fire, emergency services have difficulty arriving at the location. ## What it does When Phoenix is activated via the web app, the carbon dioxide sensor, or the heat sensor, it flies to the loca...
# RiskWatch ## Inspiration ## What it does Our project allows users to report fire hazards with images to a central database. False images could be identified using machine learning (image classification). Also, we implemented methods for people to find fire stations near them. We additionally implemented a way for ...
## Inspiration In the next 10-15 years, the rise of autonomous machine to machine payments will become growingly obvious and lucrative industry to serve. In seeing how soon large scale fleets of autonomous Uber cars will not only drive us, but begin negotiating and paying for their own parking with their fellow smart...
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# 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 ...
## 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...
# Pose-Bot ### Inspiration ⚡ **In these difficult times, where everyone is forced to work remotely and with the mode of schools and colleges going digital, students are spending time on the screen than ever before, it not only affects student but also employees who have to sit for hours in front of the screen. Prolon...
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## Inspiration Although each of us came from different backgrounds, we each share similar experiences/challenges during our high school years: it was extremely hard to visualize difficult concepts, much less understand the the various complex interactions. This was most prominent in chemistry, where 3D molecular model...
## Inspiration We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin...
## Inspiration Since the advent of cloud based computing, personal computers have started to become less and less powerful, to the point where they have started to become little more than web viewers. While this has lowered costs, and consequently more people have access to computers, people have less freedom to run t...
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## Inspiration Aravind doesn't speak Chinese. When Nick and Jon speak in Chinese Aravind is sad. We want to solve this problem for all the Aravinds in the world -- not just for Chinese though, for any language! ## What it does TranslatAR allows you to see English (or any other language of your choice) subtitles when...
## 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 ...
## Inspiration It is difficult for university students to find the time and money to go to the gym. Although some YouTube videos teach exercises that can be done at home without weights, it's not always easy to self-correct without a gym buddy. ## What it does When a user works out at home, they can place their lapt...
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## Inspiration Old school bosses don't want want to see you slacking off and always expect you to be all movie hacker in the terminal 24/7. As professional slackers, we also need our fair share of coffee and snacks. We initially wanted to create a terminal app to order Starbucks and deliver it to the E7 front desk. Th...
## 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 With the whole world being forced online, we wanted to help people connect by creating a simplistic, easy-to-use PC-building website. Many PC building websites tend to use terms that beginners would not be able to understand while also either having the user select all their parts themselves or to have ...
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Discord: * spicedGG#1470 * jeremy#1472 ![patientport logo](https://i.imgur.com/qWsX4Yw.png) ## 💡 Inspiration As healthcare is continuing to be more interconnected and advanced, patients and healthcare resources will always have to worry about data breaches and the misuses of private information. While healthcare f...
## Inspiration The inspiration for InstaPresent came from our frustration with constantly having to create presentations for class and being inspired by the 'in-game advertising' episode on Silicon Valley. ## What it does InstaPresent is a tool that uses your computer's microphone to generate a presentation in real-...
## Inspiration COVID-19 has drastically transformed education from in-person to online. While being more accessible, e-learning imposes challenges in terms of attention for both educators and students. Attention is key to any learning experience, and it could normally be assessed approximately by the instructor from t...
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## Inspiration The inspiration behind our machine learning app that can diagnose blood diseases runs deep within us. Both of us, as teammates, have been touched by the impact of blood diseases within our own families. Witnessing our loved ones facing the challenges posed by these conditions ignited a passion to create...
## 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 Growing up, many of us dreamed of exploring the world of music. However, we soon discovered that pursuing this passion often requires significant financial investment in production, mixing, and additional instruments. 🎛️ Well-meaning adults frequently warned us about the instability and security concer...
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## Inspiration At reFresh, we are a group of students looking to revolutionize the way we cook and use our ingredients so they don't go to waste. Today, America faces a problem of food waste. Waste of food contributes to the acceleration of global warming as more produce is needed to maintain the same levels of demand...
## Inspiration One of our teammates works part time in Cineplex and at the end of the day, he told us that all their extra food was just throw out.This got us thinking, why throw the food out when you can you earn revenue and some end of the day sales for people in the local proxmity that are looking for something to ...
## Inspiration In a world where the voices of the minority are often not heard, technology must be adapted to fit the equitable needs of these groups. Picture the millions who live in a realm of silence, where for those who are deaf, you are constantly silenced and misinterpreted. Of the 50 million people in the Unite...
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