DJavascript

djs is my first hackathon project. It was an intense and enjoyable 36 hours hackathon done in a group of 3.

The app requests access to your computers camara and detects users motion in boxes displayed on the screen - each box outputs a different sound - and in that way you can create your own track! Kids loveeeee it haha.

Demo: https://djavascript.herokuapp.com/

Table Of Contents

• DJavascript
  • Running the project
  • Tech Stack
  • Challenges
  • To Do
  • Credit

Running the project

Preferably check the online demo,

Otherwise:

1. Clone the repo.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run mongod
4. Run node server.js.
5. Navigate to http://localhost:3000.
6. Turn your volume on and rock on !

Techstack

1. JQuery & handlebars
2. Express (Node.js), Mongoose (MongoDB).
3. Motion detection library (see link below)

Challenges

1. My first group project - collaborating was challenging
2. Motion detection - I scanned the web for a long while to find a good library for my need. First I found a ML lib which helps me detect users skeleton - problem was that it could detect as accurate as users wrists and not fingers, so i continued - and found this lib which compares image pixels, beacuse of the assumption that a computer is mostly steady I decided to it's ok for my usage. (Had to debug it a bit as well haha)

To Do:

1. Fix DB bug - no space in between sounds (as live session has)
2. Create better sounds and unable looping

Credit:

Big credit to: https://github.com/ReallyGood/js-motion-detection