BioBlender

Discover and explore the exciting animal kingdom in a blending adventure of your own creation!

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Inspiration

  • We wanted to find a better a way to explore the variety of living things around us in a fun and interactive way!

What it does

  • BioBlender takes any two user inputted animals and returns an informational page on an animal with traits similar to both of the inputted animals.
  • The information gathering is sourced from the OpenAi-API.

How we built it

  • This app was developed using primarily Android-Studio
  • General Flow: Take in user animal inputs (or random animal) → Make an OpenAi-API call to determine unique traits pertaining to each animal → Comparison algorithm is ran to create an API call prompt that returns a unique animal each time → OpenAi-API call is made to discover interesting facts pertaining to the newly discovered animal → Make a SerpApi call to receive a random popular image URL of 'X' animal from google → Display all animal information onto the final information page.

Challenges we ran into

  • Difficulties running OpenAi API on android studio
  • Challenges with merging file information from different members using Git
  • Small bugs and errors hindering programming progress (ie: providing android studio with permission to use the internet in order to make API calls locally)
  • Being able to randomly source an image for each animal (URL's varied greatly and all images were loaded instantaneously as opposed to pre-launch)
  • Finding metrics/information that can be used to repeatably and reliably compare animals

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We set realistic goals and managed to complete them within the constrained timeline of the event, through planning and determination
  • We came up with an interesting idea that we considered unique and insightful

What we learned

  • We all learned how to use and became proficient with android-studio with very little prior experience
  • We learned how to install and make APIcalls
  • We came across many new animal and learned about many of their unique attributes during the development process

What's next for BioBlender

  • Game Mode (combining a list of randomly generated animals with the goal of reaching an imposed destination animal), Game Mode could also include an achievement system which would give the user in-app rewards for meeting certain criteria with their pool of generated animals (eg: 10 animals from South America, or 5 animals that have sharp claws).
  • Save feature to save the generated information page for unique and interesting animals.

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