Chope-O-Meter

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  Screenshot of the dashboard

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  Casing

Inspiration

All of us have had the experience of having a public space you reserved taken, or, more unfortunately, one of your belongings stolen. We felt that we could tackle these issues by designing and building a hardware device.

What it does

The Chope-O-Meter™ has a built-in camera to monitor important items or even the prime seating near your favorite food stall. When it detects a thief, it will then send an alert to the dashboard and relay its camera feed, ensuring that users can act quickly. It can also play audio clips to taunt the thief, if needed ;).

How we built it

We used HTML, JS, and CSS for the frontend and backend of our dashboard. To communicate with our ESP-32 S3 EYE, we used C++. Apart from the actual wiring and soldering of the circuit board, we also 3D printed a case for the device.

Challenges we ran into

As a team, we were relatively inexperienced when it came to hardware projects, so we had to work together to learn as we went. A major part of the project that we had to work harder on was connecting the ESP's camera feed to our frontend, which was deceptively tricky

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that even though this is our first hackathon, we have managed to create a working physical product in just the span of 24 hours.

What we learned

As this was our first hackathon, we all learned how to work on projects collaboratively as well as take advantage of systems like Git to share our work easily.

What's next for Chope-O-Meter

We hope that Chope-O-Meter™ can be in every household to protect what matters most.

Built With

• c++
• css
• express.js
• html
• javascript
• node.js
• platform.io
• socket.io