Shaka Bruv

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Inspiration

We wanted to create an effortless way to de-stress when at the work place. So we obviously involved memes in this as much possible. We wanted to create a discussion board where employees can share memes that they think are dank

What it does

There is a Leap Motion sensor connected to your laptop. Whenever you feel like it, you perform the Shaka gesture on the Leap Motion sensor and it display a dank meme from r/dankmemes. If you like the meme, you perform the Peace gesture on the Leap Motion sensor and it would share the meme to a channel of your choice on Slack. The channel now acts like a discussion board and anyone with our app and a Leap Motion sensor can share memes that are dank. Our database updates daily with new memes from r/dankmemes so that user will not see the same memes again and again

How we built it

The entire project is built on Python. The code checks if the a particular gesture is a Shaka or a Peace sign using the Leap Motion SDK. If it is a Shaka, it would randomly pick a link from our database of dank memes and display it to the user. If the Peace sign is detected, it would check if a meme has already been displayed and if so, it would share the link of that meme to a channel on Slack. We are using Slack's API to achieve this functionality.