Project Story: Everlasting Inspiration Everlasting was inspired by the need to empower individuals with dementia, helping them navigate daily life with greater ease and stay connected with loved ones. We wanted to create a tool that would preserve cherished memories and provide a sense of safety and autonomy. Its often your worried about loved ones, this offers app offers shared viewing of their life not only to the user, but the family too. Being a good tool to ease the stressed mind.
What We Learned
Through this project, we gained valuable insights into working with GPS real time tracking through React-Native learning how to use The Pre-built expo GPS and camera aspects. The photo metadata for user-centered applications. Additionally, we integrated real-time data storage solutions like MongoDB working on data stacks and structures and how to save information securely. It taught us best practices for secure and accessible information management. Additionally, through the MLH Figma workshop, we were inspired to use Figma and create some of the UX prototyping through this interface. We learned how to push and commit git repository's connecting all of our works, and went through the difficult but exciting process of implementing and connecting all of our front-end and back-end coding.
Project Development
Everlasting includes an inbuilt gallery and photo-taking service along with real-time GPS tracking. These features work together to automatically generate a daily summary of the user's activities, capturing photos and locations visited. The GPS data and image metadata are securely stored in MongoDB, ensuring that memories and places are always preserved.
Challenges
We encountered challenges in integrating GPS data accurately. Creating a DataBase. Another challenge was creating a seamless and user-friendly interface, especially with limited experience. We had issues with syntax errors, messy framework, not being able to find certain components, pivoting ideas, Time crunch, confusion of what each person was doing, and more. But that's the fun in it! From the start to end there were new problems to tackle due to the nature of the competition, but we also grew closer through the struggles, working together to fix our code, and knowing that its okay to not being able to implement certain aspects. We all grew a little more together.
Impact
Everlasting enables family members to share in these memories, providing users with a way to reconnect with their past and present. With this support, users can confidently find their way home or revisit meaningful moments. Everlasting ensures that no day is ever lost, and no path is ever forgotten.
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