Team Carbon

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Inspiration

Surprisingly few practical tools have been given to the individual consumer in the global pursuit of sustainability. Our product seeks to inform and empower individuals to make conscious consumption decisions in everyday life.

What it does

Our web application allows environmentally minded consumers to upload photos of their household products and returns the carbon footprint of that item. We’ve also included techniques to use that product more sustainably.

How we built it

We implemented Google’s Cloud Vision to identify and classify objects and then queried a database of carbon footprints to return the footprint and applicable conservation techniques to our website.

Challenges we ran into

This was the first hackathon for every member of our team so our biggest hurdle was self-organizing and staying on task. Furthermore, most of us are novice developers so a lot of learning took place such as:

  • Using React for the first time
  • Coding in JavaScript and JSON objects for the first time
  • Configuring environment for git and GitHub repo execution using npm

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First, the persistence of each team member to overcome obstacles and stick through our first hackathon until completion. Second, our approach to learning through doing. We took on an ambitious, but realistic objective and determinedly learned what was necessary to complete.

What we learned

Setting expectations for team communication, workflow, and responsibilities is critical to maximizing the effectiveness of each hacker’s strengths.

What's next for Team Carbon

This team was formed for this hackathon only, but we may get together again for future events!

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