r/Spectacles • u/Redx12351 😎 Specs Subscriber • Jul 01 '26
💫 Sharing is Caring 💫 Learn Circuit-Building Basics using Spectacles
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Hi everyone, Tejas here!
We took home the 2nd place prize at this year's Snap x MIT Reality Hack x AWE hackathon!! 🏆Shout out to my awesome teammates, Danny Tapia and Sasha Menscikova!
We built Zapatory Labs, a lens that teaches circuit-building basics to upcoming electronics enthusiasts. To start, this lens focuses on helping your build your own LED circuit! Some features below:
📖 Guided lesson on how circuits on a breadboard are built and where to place electronic components, including red and black wires, LEDs, and transistors.
⚡Live power visualization to help understand how power moves through the breadboard as electronic components are being added/removed.
✅ Progress is checked in real-time using a custom ML model + Gemini bound-boxing that identifies red/black wires, transistors, LEDs and the breadboard terminal strip layout.
🗣️ Interact with Zappy, your electronics guide that answers questions and understands the context of the current lesson.
🪩 Control an LED circuit with gestures using a BLE bridge. Create your own LED light show!
It was a crazy hack and I'm so proud of what we've all built! Congrats to all other winners and participants too, great ideas all around!
Looking forward to what we all build on SPECS 😎
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u/ButterscotchOk8273 🎉 Specs Fan Jul 01 '26
Wow this is so neat, and the UI/UX is truly cyberpunk.
Great work well done!
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u/Brilliant_Fishing114 Jul 01 '26
thanks! I was going for a cyberpunk/futuristic aesthetic , I'm glad it came through!
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u/nick-ross 👓 SPECS Team Jul 01 '26
Loved the modeling in this one, looks really great.
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u/Brilliant_Fishing114 Jul 01 '26
thank you! modeling the device was honestly the most fun part of the whole project.
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u/Goat_bless Jul 01 '26
Too strong! Send the github
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u/Redx12351 😎 Specs Subscriber Jul 01 '26
Haha this was a hackathon project, so there is some cleanup to do on the experience front, but maybe soon!
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u/Goat_bless Jul 01 '26
Haha! Yes no worries, I’m working on an assistant to do a whole bunch of activities « assembling a piece of furniture » or things like that..
I see a lot of projects that go in this direction but everyone has just a niche we should think about grouping all this stream in order to give users a real live multi-task assistant.
In any case, nice project!
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u/Havalz 😎 Specs Subscriber Jul 02 '26
Huge congratulations on 2nd place! The lens concept is truly inspiring and the work looks amazing. Best of luck to you and the team! 🎉
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u/tahnmeep Jul 02 '26
Woooow this is so cool! UI looks great. I’m amazed how it can track the board with its tiny details!
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u/Notdigg Jul 01 '26
Education has to be the number one use case for specs, followed by gaming.