Macaroni Laboratory

Inspiration

Joblessness is skyrocketing and throwing tens of millions of people into economic uncertainty and causing sprawling lines at food banks as people desperately seek their next meal.

According to University of Manchester Research, people say there is always five lots of stuff left over and it stresses them when the food is wasted. 60% of Canadians throwaways were edible, costing more than $1,100 per year. To solve this issue, Macaroni Laboratory is a AI chat application that recommends dishes and tells you the recipe step by step.

What it does

Macaroni Laboratory is the best quarantine cooking sidekick. It is a conversational AI application that recommends dishes based on the ingredients you have.

How we built it

Website: html, css, javascript, Figma Computer vision: Python
Back end: node.js, Flask Conversational machine: voiceflow

Challenges we ran into

Connecting the front end and the back-end parts with voice flow was challenging.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were very efficient in working since we have divided up our works from the beginning; we knew our strengths from the start. All of our members actively expressed opinions and we were very open to learning new developing tools.

What we learned

It was our first-time using Voiceflow, so getting used to its features was very challenging for all of us, but we have ended up learning it.

What's next for Macaroni Laboratory

If we were given more time, we would like to add some conversational features to cheer people up during the quarantine and further expend this conversational AI into other fields.