Inspiration
There was a mountain lion on the loose in Lehigh Valley and we thought it would be interesting if people could track these unique animals.
What it does
The user finds an animal and takes a picture of it, which is added to their collection of discovered animals.
How we built it
We started off with a sample React application where we then built from scratch a collections page, upload page, and a sign in page. From there, we integrated a Firebase database and photo storage so that users could save photos and look at them later. We then used OpenAI's vision model to analyze the uploaded photo and return the most probable label. Once we had the label, we were able to show what animal the user had captured, along with the picture.
Challenges we ran into
Figuring out what we wanted to develop the app using, as Flutter was too much of a learning curve for our short time we had.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Being able to make these new to us technologies work together
What we learned
React, OpenAI API, Firebase
What's next for SQrL
We want to make it solely a mobile app, so we don't have to depend on uploading images, and instead take pictures on the spot.
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