Inspiration
Many UC Santa Cruz students face the daily challenges of having to hike up strenuous hills on a campus where dining halls and cafes are often far from dorms or classrooms. Students are forced to walk long distances just to grab a meal or snack after a full day of classes, which is heavily inconvenient, especially if injured or feeling unwell. We wanted to create a solution to fix this issue.
What it does
Our website allows users to order food from all available dining halls offered at UCSC, and a drone will be sent to their location to deliver the food as quickly as possible. It includes features like viewing real-time food availability and prices and creating a user to order food and add to your cart.
How we built it
React, AWS, Node.js
Challenges we ran into
Seeing as we are a group of freshmen, it was incredibly difficult figuring out how to navigate the AWS console and learning about modules like SageMaker. Constant bugs would occur when trying to figure out how to add the option to select which food you want to buy.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we managed to get the site running and have a drone demo video to show in replace of our lack of hardware for the project. The site is still missing key features to make it perfect, but we are just glad it is in a working state.
What we learned
We learned about AWS services and not just how impactful they are, but how to utilize them to create projects of our own. We learned to collaborate better as a team and developed real world skills like time management and accountability.
What's next for Aerobites
We want to work more on the hardware end, including creating the actual drone to deliver the food. The app could use some quality of life changes too to make navigation easier and more convenient for our userbase.
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