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## Inspiration
In college I have weird 50 minute slots of time in between classes when it wouldn't make sense to walk all the way back to my dorm, but at the same time 50 minutes is a long wait. I would love to be able to meet up with friends who are also free during this time, but don't want to text every single frie... | # Inspiration
We came to Stanford expecting a vibrant college atmosphere. Yet walk past a volleyball or basketball court at Stanford mid-Winter quarter, and you’ll probably find it empty. As college students, our lives revolve around two pillars: productivity and play. In an ideal world, we spend intentional parts of ... | ## Inspiration
As University of Waterloo students who are constantly moving in and out of many locations, as well as constantly changing roommates, there are many times when we discovered friction or difficulty in communicating with each other to get stuff done around the house.
## What it does
Our platform allows r... | losing |
## Inspiration
A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s... | **check out the project demo during the closing ceremony!**
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## Inspiration
On average, half of patients with chronic illnesses like heart disease or asthma don’t take their medication. Reports estimates that poor medication adherence could be costing the country $300 billion in increase... | ## Inspiration
While talking to Mitt from the CVS booth, he opened my eyes to a problem that I was previously unaware - counterfeits in the pharmaceutical industry. After a good amount of research, I learned that it was possible to make a solution during the hackathon. A friendly interface with a blockchain backend co... | winning |
This project was developed with the RBC challenge in mind of developing the Help Desk of the future.
## What inspired us
We were inspired by our motivation to improve the world of work.
## Background
If we want technical support, we usually contact companies by phone, which is slow and painful for both users and te... | # The Ultimate Water Heater
February 2018
## Authors
This is the TreeHacks 2018 project created by Amarinder Chahal and Matthew Chan.
## About
Drawing inspiration from a diverse set of real-world information, we designed a system with the goal of efficiently utilizing only electricity to heat and pre-heat water as... | ## Inspiration
When we were deciding what to build for our hack this time we had plenty of great ideas. We zeroed down on something that people like us would want to use. The hardest problem faced by people like us is managing the assignments, classes and the infamous LeetCode grind. Now it would have been most useful... | winning |
## Inspiration
Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest.
## What it Does
It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a proof-of-concept for a potentially useful device that could be used commercially and at a large scale. We ultimately designed to focus on the agricultural industry as we feel that there's a lot of innovation possible in this space.
## What it does
The PowerPlant uses sensors to d... | # Easy-garden
Machine Learning model to take care of your plants easily.
## Inspiration
Most of the people like having plants in their home and office, because hey are beautiful and can connect us with nature just a little bit. But most of the time we really don´t take care of them, and they could get sick. Thinking... | winning |
## Inspiration
* New ways of interacting with games (while VR is getting popular, there is not anything that you can play without a UI right now)
* Fully text-based game from the 80's
* Mental health application of choose your own adventure games
## What it does
* Natural language processing using Alexa
* Dynamic ga... | ### Friday 7PM: Setting Things into Motion 🚶
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ECHO enriches the lives of those with memory-related issues through reminiscence therapy. By recalling beloved memories from their past, those with dementia, Alzheimer’s and other cognitive conditions can restore their sense o... | ## Inspiration
People struggle to work effectively in a home environment, so we were looking for ways to make it more engaging. Our team came up with the idea for InspireAR because we wanted to design a web app that could motivate remote workers be more organized in a fun and interesting way. Augmented reality seemed ... | losing |
## Inspiration:
We were inspired by the inconvenience faced by novice artists creating large murals, who struggle to use reference images for guiding their work. It can also help give confidence to young artists who need a confidence boost and are looking for a simple way to replicate references.
## What it does
An ... | ## 💡 Our Mission
Create an intuitive game but tough game that gets its players to challenge their speed & accuracy. We wanted to incorporate an active element to the game so that it can be played guilt free!
## 🧠 What it does
It shows a sequence of scenes before beginning the game, including the menu and instructi... | ## Inspiration'
One of our team members saw two foxes playing outside a small forest. Eager he went closer to record them, but by the time he was there, the foxes were gone. Wishing he could have recorded them or at least gotten a recording from one of the locals, he imagined a digital system in nature. With the help ... | losing |
## Inspiration
There are many scary things in the world ranging from poisonous spiders to horrifying ghosts, but none of these things scare people more than the act of public speaking. Over 75% of humans suffer from a fear of public speaking but what if there was a way to tackle this problem? That's why we created Str... | ## Inspiration
Public speaking is greatly feared by many, yet it is a part of life that most of us have to go through. Despite this, preparing for presentations effectively is *greatly limited*. Practicing with others is good, but that requires someone willing to listen to you for potentially hours. Talking in front o... | ## Inspiration
Public speaking is a critical skill in our lives. The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently is a very crucial, yet difficult skill to hone. For a few of us on the team, having grown up competing in public speaking competitions, we understand too well the challenges that individuals looking ... | winning |
## Motivation
Our motivation was a grand piano that has sat in our project lab at SFU for the past 2 years. The piano was Richard Kwok's grandfathers friend and was being converted into a piano scroll playing piano. We had an excessive amount of piano scrolls that were acting as door stops and we wanted to hear these ... | ## Inspiration
In the theme of sustainability, we noticed that a lot of people don't know what's recyclable. Some people recycle what shouldn't be and many people recycle much less than they could be. We wanted to find a way to improve recycling habits while also incentivizing people to recycle more. Cyke, pronounced ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by our shared love of dance. We knew we wanted to do a hardware hack in the healthcare and accessibility spaces, but we weren't sure of the specifics. While we were talking, we mentioned how we enjoyed dance, and the campus DDR machine was brought up. We decided to incorporate that into... | partial |
## Inspiration
As lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control features are becoming more available in commercial vehicles, we wanted to explore the potential of a dedicated collision avoidance system
## What it does
We've created an adaptive, small-scale collision avoidance system that leverages Apple's AR technolo... | ## Inspiration
As OEMs(Original equipment manufacturers) and consumers keep putting on brighter and brighter lights, this can be blinding for oncoming traffic. Along with the fatigue and difficulty judging distance, it becomes increasingly harder to drive safely at night. Having an extra pair of night vision would be ... | ## Inspiration
We noticed one of the tracks involved creating a better environment for cities through the use of technology, also known as making our cities 'smarter.' We observed in places like Boston & Cambridge, there are many intersections with unsafe areas for pedestrians and drivers. **Furthermore, 50% of all ac... | winning |
## Inspiration
Bill - "Blindness is a major problem today and we hope to have a solution that takes a step in solving this"
George - "I like engineering"
We hope our tool gives nonzero contribution to society.
## What it does
Generates a description of a scene and reads the description for visually impaired people... | ## Inspiration
The idea was to help people who are blind, to be able to discretely gather context during social interactions and general day-to-day activities
## What it does
The glasses take a picture and analyze them using Microsoft, Google, and IBM Watson's Vision Recognition APIs and try to understand what is ha... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output.
## What it does
XTS takes an **X** and... | winning |
## Inspiration
Protogress has been developed to improve the urban planning process. As cities expand, urban planners and engineers need to have accurate data on the areas to be developed or redeveloped. To assist urban planners, Protogress is available to gather various information such as noise pollution, light inten... | ## Inspiration: Home security systems are very expensive and sometimes do not function as intended. Sometimes something simple may happen such as you forgetting the lights on at home or there may be something more drastic such as a large temperature change or even intruder. Our solution aims to be a cheap alert system ... | ## Inspiration
As most of our team became students here at the University of Waterloo, many of us had our first experience living in a shared space with roommates. Without the constant nagging by parents to clean up after ourselves that we found at home and some slightly unorganized roommates, many shared spaces in ou... | losing |
# nwfacts
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The ultimate anti-bias tool for browsing the news.
## Contents
* [Aim and Mo... | ## Inspiration
In a sense, social media has democratized news media itself -- through it, we have all become "news editors" to some degree, shaping what our friends read through our shares, likes, and comments. Is it any wonder, then, that "fake news" has become such a widespread problem? In such partisan times, it is... | ## Inspiration 🤔
The brain, the body's command center, orchestrates every function, but damage to this vital organ in contact sports often goes unnoticed. Studies show that 99% of football players are diagnosed with CTE, 87% of boxers have experienced at least one concussion, and 15-30% of hockey injuries are brain-r... | partial |
# Team
Honeycrisp
# Inspiration
Every year there are dozens of heatstroke accidents that occur, a number of which are defined as vehicular heatstroke accidents. Our aim was to build a device for vehicles to best prevent these scenarios, whether there may be young children or pets left in said vehicles.
# What it do... | ## Inspiration
Coming from South-East Asia, we have seen the devastation that natural disasters can wreck havoc on urban populations
We wanted to create a probe that can assist on-site Search and Rescue team members to detect and respond to nearby survivors
## What it does
Each Dandelyon probe detects changes in it... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by carbon trading mechanism among nations proposed by Kyoto Protocol treaty in the response to the threat of climate change, and a bunch of cute gas sensors provided by MLH hardware lab, we want to build a similar mechanism among people to monetize our daily carbon emission rights, especially t... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration stems from a fundamental realization about the critical role food plays in our daily lives. We've observed a disparity, especially in the United States, where the quality and origins of food are often overshadowed, leading to concerns about the overall health impact on consumers.
Severa... | ## Inspiration
The counterfeiting industry is anticipated to grow to $2.8 trillion in 2022 costing 5.4 million jobs. These counterfeiting operations push real producers to bankruptcy as cheaper knockoffs with unknown origins flood the market. In order to solve this issue we developed a blockchain powered service with ... | ## Inspiration
In Canada, $31 billion worth of food ends up in the landfills every year. This comes from excess waste produced by unwanted ugly produce, restaurants overcooking etc. As a team we are concerned about the environment and the role we have to play in shaping a healthy future. While technology often has adv... | partial |
## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
The need for faster and more reliable emergency communication in remote areas inspired the creation of FRED (Fire & Rescue Emergency Dispatch). Whether due to natural disasters, accidents in isolated locations, or a lack of cellular network coverage, emergencies in remote areas often result in delayed r... | *Inspiration*
One of the most important roles in our current society is the one taken by the varying first responders who ensure the safety of the public through many different means. Innovation which could help these first responders would always be favourable for society as it would follow from this innovation that ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Save plate is an app that focuses on narrowing the equity differences in society.It is made with the passion to solve the SDG goals such as zero hunger, Improving life on land, sustainable cities and communities and responsible consumption and production.
## What it does
It helps give a platform to fo... | ## Inspiration Behind Plate-O 🍽️
The inspiration for Plate-O comes from the intersection of convenience, financial responsibility, and the joy of discovering new meals. We all love ordering takeout, but there’s often that nagging question: “Can I really afford to order out again?” For many, budgeting around food choi... | ## Inspiration
Reducing North American food waste.
## What it does
Food for All offers a platform granting the ability for food pantries and restaurants to connect. With a very intuitive interface, pantries and restaurants are able to register their organizations to request or offer food. Restaurants can estimate th... | partial |
## Inspiration
When I was 10, I played a text-adventure game related to simply traversing the world. It was small, there was no GUI, but even then, outside of Minecraft, it was one of the few games who captured my interest because of it's wide field and untapped ability for exploration. Recently I wanted to revisit th... | ## Inspiration
As a video game lover and someone that's been working with Gen AI and LLMs for a while, I really wanted to see what combining both in complex and creative ways could lead to. I truly believe that not too far in the future we'll be able to explore worlds in RPGs where the non-playable-characters feel imm... | ## Inspiration
Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su... | losing |
## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | ## Inspiration
Given that students are struggling to make friends online, we came up with an idea to make this easier. Our web application combines the experience of a video conferencing app with a social media platform.
## What it does
Our web app targets primarily students attending college lectures. We wanted to ... | winning |
## What it does
From Here to There (FHTT) is an app that shows users their options for travel and allows them to make informed decisions about their form of transportation. The app shows statistics about different methods of transportation, including calories burned, CO2 emitted and estimated gas prices. See a route y... | ## Inspiration
Many of us tech enthusiasts have always been interested in owning an electric vehicle, however in my case like in India you can go 100s of miles without seeing a single charging point once you leave the big cities. In my case my dad was not ready to buy an electric car as its not even possible to travel... | ## Inspiration
As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe... | losing |
## Inspiration
Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti... | ## Inspiration
After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ... | ## Inspiration
Each living in a relatively suburban area, we are often quite confused when walking through larger cities. We can each associate with the frustration of not being able to find what seems to be even the simplest of things: a restroom nearby or a parking space we have been driving around endlessly to find... | winning |
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