GreenBox (JunctionX Budapest '23)
My Teams submission for the 2023 Budapest X Junction hackathon. We worked on Greenbox, our project, for 48 hours. We also made a YouTube video that introduces our product, you can find the link here.
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In 2023, my friend and I participated in a Hackathon organized by Crafthub. It was Budapest’s largest hackathon event organized up to that point, with more than 300+ people attending offline. My friend and I also participated offline, at MOME (A hungarian university’s campus).
This was our first time attending a Hackathon.
This hackathon lasted 48 hours, meaning all of the work you see here was done in the span of 48 hours.
We had a tons of fun and it was great for getting some experience too. We had to work really hard, because people usually compete in teams of 3-5, but it was only two of us in the team. Making it more difficult, only I knew programming.There were 4 challenges you could choose from. We choose the one about sustainability. In short, the prompt for the challenge was
"Increase sustainability and environmental awareness within big cities".
Our solution: Greenbox
Watch the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkhnDuJ6sUMOur ideas was to make people living in cities more aware of nature, by bringing nature to them. Our solution was a high-tech "cultivation" box, which helps you raise a plant by providing you feedback on how your plant is doing. It achieves this by using a combination of sensors like, soil quality and moisture sensor, air humidity sensor, light sensor, temperature sensor etc. It can process this data into a human readable message, like "Water your plant", or "Your plant isn't getting enough sunlight". Greenbox uses artificial intelligence to give your plant a personality, and talk about its problem in first person, making the connection more personal.
To see our entire project please watch the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkhnDuJ6sUM
Our aim was to make people think more about nature. By helping them raise a plant, in an environment where they otherwise would not have (cities), we are not only helping the planet but also increasing people's
environmental awareness.
Result: 5th place!
We were very surprised when it turned out we came 5
th
in our challenge. There was a leaderboard for each one of the challenges. To get in the final round of votes, you had to be in the top 3 in your challenges leaderboard. We were not far off!
I certainly did not expect this. This was my very first time competing in a Hackathon.
Links
Presentation: On YouTube
Our project on the Junction platform: GreenBox on Junction
Organizer’s site: Junction X Budapest
Code: Available on my GitHub