Inspiration - We wanted to create a convenient and creative solution to nutritional tracking and health
What it does - utilizes Alexa as a vocal assistant for tracking your calories and macronutrients
How we built it - using Amazon Alexa, React, JavaScript, Python, HTML, and CSS to put together a website, app, and core functional Alexa Skill.
Challenges we ran into - API implementation through Alexa Console proved to be more complex than we had expected, and Combining a python backend with Alexa was just out of reach of being accomplished.
Accomplishments that we're proud of - We are proud to have created a prototype that takes Alexa and turns her into a nutritional advisor and allows users the convenience of tracking their calories before, during, and after meal preparation.
What we learned - We learned a great deal about API requests, Alexa console, intent handlers, lambda functions, react, and visual design of websites.
What's next for NutrisyncXAlexa - Next, we plan to fully integrate MyFitnessPal API into the program, and have Alexa transfer data back and forth between a large database, which is shared with the phone application in order to bring users the most diverse food options and accurate health information.
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