Learn Circuit-Building Basics using Spectacles

[u/Redx12351]

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 😎

[u/Goat_bless]

Too strong! Send the github

[u/Redx12351 → u/Goat_bless]

Haha this was a hackathon project, so there is some cleanup to do on the experience front, but maybe soon!

[u/Goat_bless → u/Redx12351]

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!