FoodConnect

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  Welcome Page

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  Foodbank Page

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  Pop up for adding items

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  Item Added!

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  Donor Page

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  Taking picture of an orange

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  The ML recognizes the fruit and is ready to donate!

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  Firebase Cloud Firestore Updates as I donate Items

Inspiration

During this time it is especially important to ensure food security for those in need, this was the main inspiration for FoodConnect.

What it does

FoodConnect connects Food banks to donors who have products they need. The donor submits the items they have and the app connects them to a FoodBank that needs those items.

How I built it

We built it using Dart and the Flutter Framework. The great thing about a cross platform framework like Flutter is that the same codebase can be deployed to iOS and Android. The app also uses AutoML in order to identify the food.

Challenges I ran into

Adding machine learning to the app and using the database was difficult because it was our first time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Although we started late we managed to pull through and we're really happy about that.

What I learned

We learned how to store information in external databases and integrate machine learning into our apps.

What's next for FoodConnect

Next, we plan on adding more test cases so that the computer vision will be better and also adding authentication to our app.

Built With

• cloudstore
• dart
• firebase
• flutter
• machine-learning