Museum of Hack the North

A curated collection of 161 standout projects from 12 years of Hack the North

ChessMate

ChessMate is a smart chess companion: play on a web app or real board with motorized pieces, get instant coaching, and voice controls for accessibility, making chess inclusive and interactive.

Coach Bob!

Get warmed up at the gym with this interactive AR experience!

DUM-E

DUM-E is an NLP-powered robotic arm that uses CV and fast inference to perform actions.

Lattice

Holographic Communication.Anytime, Anywhere.

Maatchaa

Match your content to the right sponsors with Maatchaa

Puppeteer

Bring your code to life. Orchestrate your code in the runtime.

ROSS - Remote Operated Semantic Sketching

We're making art accessible to the blind by bridging visual ideas with touch, temperature and sound!

S-KBD67

Why click a mouse when you can pull a trigger? We hacked a Nerf gun into an FPS controller; shooting, reloading, moving, aiming translates to game input, letting you play your favorite shooters IRL.

Sauron

What if you could build a time machine to find who hurt you and your loved ones? We want to reduce the amount of cold cases by making police work 10x more efficient.

SpeakEasy

AI-powered interview practice tool that helps job seekers master behavioral questions through video-based practice. It delivers real-time feedback on what you say & how you say it, so you can improve

Stu3dio

Make a film by talking to 3D workers in the studio

Tango

Siri if it actually worked on your Mac.

AutOST

Real-Time music generation to accompany any scenario!

ChatGPMe

The reason you should say 'please' and 'thank you' to your AI agents.

ConArt AI

gamified design experience that turns doodles to concept art

Craven

A kitchen security system to keep your roommates in check and your snacks in stock.

Dime Defender

Chrome extension that helps you curb excessive online spending habits and cross-examine your cart ‍⚖️

Flashback

Flashback is a VR experience that transforms your cherished memories into immersive, interactive exhibits. Relive key moments as photos, videos, and soundbites come alive in 3D environments.

Ludwig

A physical robot to play any sheet music you want!

LureLore

Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual aquarium -- after all, why catch fish, when you can catch memories?

PathSense

Empowering Vision Through Voice. Revolutionizing indoor mobility with real-time, adaptive AI-enabled guidance for seamless navigation in complex spaces.

PulseGrip - 2024 Finalist

Over 1 in 50 Americans suffer from some form of paralysis. We are on a mission to help through a hand closing motor powered by EMG detection.

Ted

A little AI cutie pie that serves as both a friend and a paramedic!

TinkerFlow

We built TinkerFlow, an AI powered web application to help engineers, from beginners to seasoned hackers, to create projects from the resources that they have available.

CheetCode

even i can go to ioi now

DejaVu

Eliminating déjà vu by reviving memories one video at a time

DreamWeaver

A web app able to generate children's stories with text and image support.

Drive Sense

Through CV models and LLMs, we are increasing road safety, and assessing a driver's safety rating, by correlating behavior with the road conditions.

EduSphere

Learn a language on the Apple Vision Pro

Hack The Geese

Make a bunch of new friends this weekend with 1-v-1 photo challenges! Get competitive, go social, and immerse yourself in the event like you've never imagined. Introducing Hack The Geese.

PearPiano

AR composing tool, bringing music to life, not just to your ears but to your eyes 🎶

RoBotany

we talk to plants but we not delusional

Spyder

If you can think it, you can drive it!

Swag the North

The quintessential hackathon experience, now a chart-topping, heart-stopping video game.

The Council

Do you have problems but no one to tell them to? Consult the Council and get a diverse set of opinions, from your delulu bestie, your brutally honest friend or even your mom.

Vibes - decentralized social media and music streaming

It functions how you'd expect - social media meets music streaming - but under the hood it's different! Vibes enables you to own your data and is privacy-respecting, being based on IPFS and NOSTR!

BB-8 Droid

Real-life BB-8 that drives around with eye-tracking

BrAInstorm

Visualizing the art of the emotion

Britafull

Does your roommate forget to take out the trash? Do they never wash their dishes? Most importantly, DO THEY FORGET TO REFILL THE BRITA? Introducing Britafull, we fight your roommates for you.

ConnexSci

Most investment in scientific investments fail to materialize. We provide analytics and a crowdsourcing platform to identify the highest-potential and impactful projects for public and private funds.

DigiSpotter

Your new electronic gym partner, who remembers what set you're on unlike your real one and uses state-of-the-art Computer Vision to correct your form.

Lifeline ⛑

A novel approach to connecting remote communities during natural disasters and transforming emergency response efforts by combining LoRaWAN and IoT technologies

LingoVision

LingoVision lets people read text of any language simply by blinking at it. We use an AdHawk MindLink glasses to capture and translate any text the user is looking at into speech of any language.

Lucid.ai

Let's turn that book into a movie. Text to movie, directed by AI.

Navcare

Our way of improving the scheduling and travelling experience for Personal Support Workers to help mitigate the growing staffing problem in healthcare.

Noteation: Music made Intuitive

A powerful sheet music reader and annotator that automatically changes pages using AdHawk eye tracking technology and computer vision techniques

SeeHawk

SeeHawk is a reading performance tracker which analyzes reading patterns and behaviours, presenting dynamic second-by-second updates delivered to your phone through our app.

Vioke

Karaoke anytime, anywhere.

AirFlip

Flip documents effortlessly with the power of ML and speech recognition.

Blamechain

Save your arguments on the blockchain and analyze them with AI to find out who is really at fault.

BlowItUp

Destroy your friendships one block at a time with our "cooperative" puzzle game!

Covid Cam TV

The COVID Cam TV regulates the flow of people entering and exiting a building to allow for social distancing. The sensor eliminates distractions and increases human potential of the employees.

DiVA

Decentralized intelligent Voting Application. (DiVA)

Dumpling Dynamics

It's a robot that automatically makes dumplings. Yes we are stupid

JOHTnotes

A handy lecture studying tool, built for students, by students.

omw

omw (on my way!) is a real-time navigation tool that harnesses the power of community to make commuting safer

Paracrates

Slingshot live applications instantly between computers. Enhance developers workflows, easily share demos in a classroom, and live migrate services between servers.

scaNFT

Welcome to scaNFT! We automate the process of minting an NFT to a click of a button! Automatically take a 3D scan of your item, and let it upload it as an NFT in a matter of minutes!

Smart Dance

Can you dance as well as Addison Rae? Let's find out!

Speed Scribble

Drawing game where players compete 1-on-1 to replicate a picture on a virtual whiteboard, judged by AI

StudyBuddy

Youtube? Online lectures? Teams? If you wished you could copy text directly from video, StudyBuddy has you covered. Select on screen text or let StudyBuddy generate notes automatically for you!

Tuesday Night Tempo

A fun interactive music game that uses a real drum set as the controller.

Viva

Introducing, Viva: a fun, learning style app that re-imagines speech therapy.

voicenoted.

Listen, write, share. Save and transcribe audio clips from their podcasts and audiobooks, and write notes on them in just a few clicks.

WATermelon

Choosing the perfect watermelon, made simple.

CAST3D - Scanner for Medicinal Casts

Making a cast that will last

ClinicConnect

ClinicConnect helps patients find clinical trials and studies at nearby treatment centers to address their long term health conditions.

CopyCat

The pose memory multiplayer online game!

Corona Escape

Escape from Corona Virus in this interactive VR escape room experience!

Ctrl+Air+Space

Swipe This™

Desky bot

An interactive and customizable little robot friend that keeps you company and mentally engaged during tough times.

FitBuddy

Competitively exercise against your friends, push yourself for a high rank, and improve your form, all from the safety of your own home.

FridgeSpace

Mobile app that encourages food donation by lowering the barrier of entry

groupShot

Take group selfies from the safety of lockdown. Try it out at https://groupshot.xyz

helppier

Neighbours helping neighbours through gamified volunteering.

Jump!

A competitive multiplayer exercise game that makes it fun and easy to stay fit with friends through the internet.

Karaoke Party

Sing your Worries Away!

Legist

Putting the gist in legislation: summarizing policy for democracy

Mall Monitor

What started off as a COVID-19 tracking system for malls, turned into something that tracks height and links each person with a unique tracking ID and their accessories. This uses the model YoloV3.

mashme

Pick two songs and mash them together! mashme uses intelligent stem-splitting to isolate the vocals, drums, and rhythm of each song, allowing the user to mash them together however they want.

Merge CountFlicts

Counting to 20 has never been this hard.

QuaranTime

We aspire to help people through the pandemic and through personal challenges by helping them discover new activities and hobbies

QuickMark

Marking tests shouldn't be slower online than in person. QuickMark uses computer vision to split test questions into groups that can be marked efficiently.

Recipe2Go

A web app that auto-generates food recipe from your favourite cooking youtube video !

Subspace

Work side-by-side again during COVID? Subspace gives you cloud-based desktops for remote collaboration, allowing you to instantaneously share your computing environment with others.

Tabular

A program that allows you to run any keystroke combination through facial recognition and the magic of the Raspberry Pi.

Temporal Rift

Like time travel? In this game you will need to interact with your past and future self to solve the puzzle!

trytobreak.me

The world's only indestructible website with a point-and-click game.

AlgoFund

A decentralized bounties platform on Algorand

AR Voice ML Ninjutsu Battle Simulator

Our project bridge the gap between science fiction and reality, bring anime characters to life. Users get to reenact their favourite scenes and justus from the anime Naruto with their anime figures!!

Complete

Complete: your code with other's ideas

Dance Time

It's Dance Time! Get your personal dance trainer and compete to be the best dancer

FridgeFriend

An automated ingredient tracker and recipe curator.

Guardian

The number of firefighter injuries has increased by over 28% in the past 30 years. Our team sought to tackle this issue by creating a novel helmet utilizing IOT to improve firefighter safety.

HANQ

A new kind of voice assistant. Always listening, zero boundaries, and ready to help.

Historify

Not enough time to explain yourself to the doctor? Let's make that problem history

Innovape

A personalized solution to quitting smoking

L A S E R S - HTN 2019

Using lasers to draw on walls

PhysioCare

Feeling stiff? Bring relief to your fingertips.

Sagacity

An application that takes pictures of fragmented written notes and converts them into high quality, readable and organized notes

Unbounded

A Non-Euclidean VR Portal Puzzle Game

Audite

An device that assists those with a hearing impairment with day to day life.

Continuum

You know how we can't see in 4D? Continuum is a 2D platformer that requires you to visualize in 3D.

Fuzzbuzz CVE-Scan

Scan your application's dependencies for known security vulnerabilities every time you push to Github!

Harry Potter VR Chess Board

A virtual reality powered chess game inspired by the Harry Potter series for increased immersion and enjoyability.

InterPlanetary Desktops

Decentralized, Blockchain-based, Portable Virtual Desktops. Based on IPFS (InterPlanetary File System).

InVein

a secure palm vein authentication system, for when fingerprints just don't do it

Koshu

Koshu! A friendly patient engagement app.

Lift

Less work, more working out.

Once Upon a Time

We create the scenery of the story you speak live in your VR set!

Pinpointr

High-precision location detection with sound

SentinelAI

The future of the smart door, reimagined.

TapKey!

Biometric 3-factor authentication for online services, right at your fingertips

AR Planes

An augmented reality app to visualize and discover the planes flying around you

Aya

Robotic head created with Python and a Raspberry Pi that uses AWS for image recognition and text to speech output.

BitToBin

Automatic waste sorter. A low-cost hardware hack to stop waste contamination in its tracks. Toss it and go!

DoppelGallery

DoppelGallery is a web app that finds your doppelgangers from historical paintings based on a picture of your face

Drone Vision

Decentralized crowdsourced-capable 3d modelling and labeling with a personal drone, for VR touring and mapping.

Gall-AR-y

Gall-AR-y is an AR project that allows users to preview how paintings and posters will look on their wall.

Galleon

A web service offering comprehensive, custom tailored information for skilled workers immigrating to Canada.

Hilite

Affordable OCR-based text highlighting & analysis made for the real world.

Loc8r

integrated Bike Tracking System

Phiracks

A smart bike rack system that aims to prevent bike thefts through computer vision, blockchain, and IoT

Plugable

A remote access service to enable user-to-developer communication within mobile applications.

StoryTree

StoryTree is a project meant to inspire people to write the books they've always wanted to.

Study Buddy

Ever patient and always correct, Alexa is the perfect study buddy for any student looking to git shit done

WiFi-Vision

See though walls with wifi.

// block_blog

A blockchain based social network that allows unprecedented freedom of speech; it is impossible to delete anything.

AgriGate

Data visualization toolkit for agricultural purposes

B.S. Breaker

Break up Trump's b.s. tweets word by word

Duo: Remote Control Pair of Hands

Remote control pair of hands with VR integration

HeyKanye

Parse-Tree Hip-Hop Generation using HMMs and Microsoft Azure

IdeaShare

An open platform for idea distribution and inspiration

Lyfe

Lyfe provides a new way for users to find videos by showing how their friends reacted to the video in real time.

Modernized Weasley Clock

A Harry Potter-inspired clock that tracks the location of your family members via an app and updates a physical clock

nanoTransit - A Web Bluetooth Transit Beacon System

Interact with the bus info you need and physically interact with the bus's services when onboard without an app.

Project Open Heart

VR Open Heart Surgery With Alexa as a Virtual Nurse

Rolie Polie Olie

Pinball--extreme electronics style

Third Sense

A Virtual Reality Haptic Feedback Vest and Software Solution

AnonymEyes

Let citizens easily and anonymously record incidents to enable emergency responders and promote accountability

Elapsed

It's time to remove the human error surrounding the process of timesheets.

Every Drop Counts

A smarter way to save water in your household!

Fli

Fli let's you have a fully immersive flying experience as the pilot from anywhere you want!

Hamster Home

A hamster cage you can interact with via a webpage that keeps track of a hamster's wellbeing (food, water, & health)

Hash

Hash is a secure and convenient way of doing account authentication using touch ID from your smart phone to your mac.

Jarvis

Simplistic HUD for motorcycle helmets.

PayMyFace

Pay anything you see.

Propagate

procedural, persistant, interactive shared state virtual coral reef, in your browser

Stokr

Your entire Steam library anytime, anywhere, on OS X

TalentScale

Hire The best Matched Candidates by using analytics and machine learning

Wayst

Haptic Feedback Waist Accessory for Navigation Assistance using Proximity Sensors, GPS and Google Maps

Botscape

A massively multiplayer online game for artificial intelligence players.

Flock

The social door lock

Guava

Secure patient genome browsing on the web

Lend

The airbnb for things.

Open Pokémon

It's not just a game.

pinpnt.me

Quick and clean location-sharing

RememberAlll

Curating life's most precious experiences into a beautiful and searchable archive

SignLang

By using a LeapMotion and a Myo armband, we created a sign language translator.

Silicon Man

Iron Man's hipster tech cousin.

Spacebowl

Bowling in space with the Oculus Rift and Myo