Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project stems from our travel experiences. Both of us have felt the negative effects of jetlag following a long trip out of the country.
What it does
In order to alleviate our problems, we design Jetlagger, which allows a user to input their current location, the location that they are traveling and what time their ideal bedtime is. Based on this information Jetlagger calculates the time difference between the 2 locations and curates a sleep schedule for what time to sleep starting 3 days before the trip.
How we built it
In order to build Jetlager we used Geopy in order retrieve the Latitude coordinates for te 2 locations. Based on the latitude coordinates we were able to scale the values and find the time zones of the data and calculate the difference. Based on the differnece in time zones we slowly move the users ideal sleep schedule closer and closer to their ideal bedtime in the location that they are travelling to.
Challenges we ran into
We are both pretty new to hackathoons and have little front end development experience; so making a ui that was semi-fuctional was rather difficult for us. In additon pulling coordinate data based on user input was tedious at first.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're pround that we were able to think of an idea and see it all the way through, even if we did have some doubts and difficulties at some points.
What we learned
We learned how to use Tkinter, how to share code and collaboratively work, how to use git commands, and how to pull from apis
What's next for JetLagger
Obviously our user interface is a little lackluster, so hopefully when the two of us learn some more fron end skills, we can develop Jetlagger into a website or app that could see more practical uses. In addition we could make the app more complex and curate more specific sleep schedules based on more features such as length of trip, duration of travel, use of melatonin, and other factors.
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