Inspiration
When we saw the amount food being wasted everyday in our residence's cafeteria, we decided to come up with a solution to this problem as our Hackathon Project.
What it does
It takes age, height, weight etc to calculate BMI, according to which the app suggests the food items from our cafeteria's menu. We use the cafeterias menu as a reference, and search up the nutrition value of each food item available in the menu and on basis of the nutrition values, we suggest the user what to eat for the day.
How we built it
We used the Flask web framework as back end for our web app we created the front end using HTML and CSS, making use of technology such as web scrapping and API's wherever necessary.
Challenges we ran into
We had to quickly learn Flask framework as we were all new to it, three of us had to do the work for five people in a very limited time period while learning new technologies, we also had to stay up for more than 24 hours and the API got rate limited at the last moment.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
As mentioned above, we were new to the technologies being used and yet we were still able to make a working prototype and coded for at least 14-15 hours.
What we learned
Flask web framework, web scrapping, use of API, video editing, Algorithmic approach to problem solving and Front end designing.
What's next for EREB
make the program stable enough so that it can be released to the general public, deploy the program on an actual server rather than a local host, improve run time speeds, add some more features and enhancements to make it look even more refined. Accommodate users with dietary restrictions in the future. Reduce food wastage at buffet restaurants by providing meal plans of potential customers before food preparation begins.
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