Town+

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Inspiration

Our idea started its life as a way to simply show college students which parking spots were taken, and which ones were not.

What it does

Town+ currently has a function to track parking lot traffic, as well as an immersive map that marks different activities around you.

How we built it

We started with an ultrasonic sensor that was attached to an arduino via a 3D printed mount, which was then taped to a raspberry-pi. From there we handled the sensor input with C++ on the raspberry-pi, sent the C++ through a python server to our database. Scala then requested data from the database (via the python server) and then sent data from scala to the frontend where it was represented on the map.

Challenges we ran into

Using the internet to host a server and a database. Nginx reverse proxy issues.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting such a strong working demo for such an ambitious idea. (Fingers crossed)

What we learned

Don't use the internet for hackathon projects

What's next for Town+

The expansion of this app is very exciting. Our plan is to create a fully immersive guide including places to eat, recreational activities, and especially local small businesses. We want to use Town+ to make the ultimate community experience!

Built With

• 3d-printer
• 3dprinting
• arduino
• c++
• digitalocean
• domain.com
• google-cloud
• html5
• javascript
• mongodb
• painters-tape
• python
• raspberry-pi
• redbull
• scala
• ultrasonic-sensor