Biohazard-Detector-Biohack2023

Inspiration

We created this project to help automate the waste separation process. Often times this process is lengthy, and even dangerous for sanitation workers.

What it does

Classifies waste as hazardous or not depending on what it sees using computer vision. Conveyor belt demonstrates how workers can avoid touching waste.

Challenges

Physical prototype
Conveyor belt material
Crashes with the code due to format differences in code

Achievements

Functioning conveyor belt out of household items
2/3 members were first time hackathon participants
Used Teachable Machine to create a basic level machine learning model

Plans to Improve

Use Arduino Kits to motorize the conveyor belt
Expand machine learning's dataset to detect chemicals, radioactivity
Use paddles (similar to a pinball machine) to guide trash into different bins depending on classification