Inspiration
We were inspired by an episode of Bluey called "Turtleboy" which featured a character called Dougie, a deaf cavoodle, who had to communicate in AUSLAN sign language with his normal functioning hearing parent during the whole episode.
Another inspiration was a challenge faced by someone one of our team members knew who described their experience of teaching a deaf teenager and noticed the difficulties they had with reading and literacy.
What it does
Our app aims to scan text and use generative AI to create a video of a character/avatar signing in AUSLAN.
How we built it
We used React for the front end with tailwind for styling, Fast API for the backend and using Pixverse Video Generation API and Tesseract OCR. We predominantly used Cursor for helping us build the app in a short amount of time.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating the API, debugging the AI generated code. Deployment and working simultaneously in github (resolving merge conflicts).
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Majority of our team had never built a full stack web app before and this was the first hackathon for all of us. We learnt git and played around with vibe coding. We are proud of our exposure to the code generation tools and frameworks for building full stack web applications.
What we learned
Everything breaks before you try submit. Not enough time to test features and make sure things are working in a hackathon.
What's next for Dougie.ai
We want to use this project as a learning sandbox to continue our web development skills and explore more AI API integrations.
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