Inspiration
We were inspired by the main theme of exploration. We wanted to have people (mainly computer scientists) actaully touch grass with our web app!
What it does
The user chooses how long they want thier session to be: 5mins, 10mins etc. then they hit start now! They are then under a time limit to find a randomly selected object in the world. One they have found it, they use their camera to take a picture of it. A image classifier is then used to verify that the they have done it sucessfully. Points are added every sucessful object found. Leaderboard to high scores.
How we built it
Built with MongoDB, node and clarifai.
Challenges we ran into
All non-computer scientists so didn't have too much coding knowledge. Making sure all the dependancies and backends were running properly was difficult. Pinging the clarifai was also a challenge as we have not worked with API before.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Have a functional product with a working front and backend. We are very proud of this a three of our members are new to hackathons.
What we learned
HMTL, node, javascript, API, backend.
What's next for Touch Grass
Contining development with a proper timer, better looking front end and Andriod + IOS integration.
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