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Taking advantage of the web's WebGPU capabilities, SignLens used TensorFlow.js to translate American Sign Language finger-spelling into text in real-time via a laptop webcam. What impressed judges wasn't just the 94% accuracy, but the latency—under 50ms. The team built a custom WebAssembly module to handle the matrix multiplication normally reserved for Python.
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For the participants, the timeline was unforgiving. Taking advantage of the web's WebGPU capabilities, SignLens
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Two freshmen built a PWA (Progressive Web App) for rural bus riders. Since their town had no live bus tracking, they attached a $15 Raspberry Pi with an LTE shield to a family member's car, simulating a bus route. They then built a SMS gateway so you could text a number and get "The bus is 7 minutes away." It was scrappy, hardware-heavy, and deeply useful.