Inspiration
The project was inspired by the miniscule text on the rear of an eye drop bottle. Hence, we wanted users to be more able to easily search such verbose and tiny blocks of text for expiration dates, number of doses per day, etc.
What it does
To achieve such goal, we designed a mobile app that incorporates backend elements to scan labels for text and send it to a backend for processing. Although the project is not fully complete, its use of MongoDB and React Native can be further realized.
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
By far the largest challenge with we stumbled upon is design of the application as, for students who have are not well-versed with backends, difficult to initially comprehend. Furthermore, the documentation for React Expo is another hinderance that absorbed much of our time in researching the API's functionality.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- For most of our members, this is their first hackathon, so producing such a result is encouraging.
- For the one member with more experience, the project is invaluable in learning fetch requests and
What we learned
- A basic framework of thinking when tackling full-stack projects and navigation system of React Native
What's next for Asklepian
While we have created a MongoDB database and populated it, accessing it via Python for some inexplicable reason yields nothing. Fixing it seem remains one of the top "to-do's."
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