DearDiary

Inspiration

Several friends of ours, many in med sci, attended this hackathon with us. While discussing ideas, they brought up the idea of creating a project to help people with chronic illnesses, and it aligned really well with the social impact-y theme of the hackathon. So, we eventually narrowed it down to alzheimer's and came up with the project that we wanted to create.

What it does

Helps Alzheimer's and Dementia patients record their memories of their family and friends Acts as an "anchor" for things they can record to never forget (friends and families birthdays and memories, for example)

How we built it

Had to learn how to use databases, RLS, all the stuff that comes with databases. Tried to make front-end a little more pretty than what we've had for previous hackathons. We used Supabase for the database, React, Tailwind CSS, and Vite for front end, and flask+python for the backend.

Challenges we ran into

RLS! I personally had a lot of trouble working through the database stuff, as it was a huge learning curve and there was very little documentation. Nathan had some basic experience with computer vision, but facial recognition was a big hurdle, as it was a lot more complicated than anything he had done before. As well, a lot of the facial recognition libraries were very poorly documented so the learning curve for that was also very steep.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A working database and facial recognition! The camera feature can bring up the details of people whose faces are stored in the database, and display them on screen.