PiM: The Virtual Fridge Manager

Inspiration

We wanted to use a RaspberryPi in an innovative way. We also wanted promote a healthy lifestyle.

What it does

Detects what you place in a fridge and predicts when the food while go bad.

How I built it

RaspberryPi camera and python flask webserver application.

Challenges I ran into

Getting OCR to work properly with the photos taken with the pi camera

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

EVERYTHING

What I learned

3D printing, RaspberryPi, Flask, Python, Javascript, Postmates API, HTML5/CSS3

What's next for PiM: The Virtual Fridge Manager

Reading barcodes and expiry dates to get more accurate predictions