EducatAR

Inspiration todo

All four of us have many friends that are constantly wanting more out of studying. This was a big factor in our decision to develop a flashcard app with a twist: Augmented Reality.

What it does

Our app utilizes Augmented Reality to display various 3D images such as molecules, cells, and the brain so that the user can add a visual element to their flashcards.

How we built it

EducatAR is a multi-platform project. The AR app is built in Swift for iOS, the website is built with HTML, CSS, & Javascript, and they are synched together with Google's Firebase. To work with AR we used Apple's ARKit 2.

Challenges we ran into

AR

This was our first time working with AR. So learning how to work with ARKit was our first struggle.

Firebase

Google's Firebase was an awesome tool that really enhanced our project once we got it working. However, learning how to read and write to Firebase from iOS and our Website was the second difficulty.

Built With

Submitted to

SpartaHack V
- Winner Most Technically Impressive
- Winner Best Hack For Improving Learning Experience
- Winner Best User Interface and Human Machine Interaction
- Winner Best Hack for Digital Twins

Created by

I worked on designing the iOS app and integrating that with Google's Firebase. This was my first time working with Swift. One of the most difficult parts for me was receiving data from Firebase, but after some learning and talking with the Google sponsors I was able to get everything connected!

Zackary Schreur
I worked on the AR component of the iOS app using ARkit2. I have had some previous experience with Swift, but this was the first time that I have used ARkit . One of the main challenges was initially figuring out how anchor points and nodes worked in 3D space.

Swapnik Katkoori
I worked on both the front-end and back-end development of the website. A challenge that I experienced was how to ensure that our website could extract data from our iOS app through the use of Firebase.

Karl Zhu
I worked on designing the front end of the website with HTML as well as the back end of the website with JavaScript. One of the most difficult parts for me was connecting the website with the database we were using on Firebase. Another difficulty was that I had never used HTML or JavaScript before I worked on this project.

Benjamin Read