Garbage Guide | Devpost

Inspiration

We noticed that many individuals failed to throw their waste into the correct bin. This inspired us to educate and spread awareness about taking care of our campus and planet.

What it does

We created a website that accesses your camera and will detect if it sees waste, compost, or recycling. You can hold up an item and it will identify which category it belongs in using the machine learning module we trained. We also have a chatbot that can answer questions anyone has.

How we built it

We built Garbage Guide using Flask, a Python web framework. Additionally, we used HTML and CSS for the front end of the website. We used various API's and packages to build a fun, interactive website for educating the public on waste disposal.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into many challenges throughout the hack. For instances, it was difficult to come up with a project that is unique, yet tackles ones of the hack categories. There were also environmental challenges such as slow wifi and time constraints.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As new hackers, we are proud we were able to create something in a very short time period that is presentable. On top of the fact that we did not have a clear direction on what we wanted to create, we still managed to create something meaningful.

What we learned

We all played to our strengths and learned how to combine our skills to build our project. We were able to research new API's to utilize in our projects.