Find My Book

Inspiration

Inspired by Google Maps and mall self serve kiosks for directions.

What it does

Helps you easily find a book on a shelf in a large library.

How we built it

We built it using an open source Dijkstra pathfinder algorithm we found through a YouTube tutorial. Using that tutorial became the base of our project where we later designed a 'mock' floor plan of a library and also made a search functionality to change our start and end nodes (where queried book is located). It then finds the shortest path between the start and end nodes through our pathfinder algorithm.

Challenges we ran into

The hardest part was reading the already made pathfinder algorithm and programming in our walls to find out how to put more than one coordinate too as a wall.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Proud of our determination to finish as much as we could!

What we learned

That it was very hard to work with open source and you need sleep eventually :')

What's next for Find My Book

We would like to integrate it with our own University's database and library floor plans of Rutherford Library! Also would need the coordinates to be associated with a book's call number in order to find it in real life.