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it is a device that helps blinds by taking photos, making AI detection, and sending it as sound in the ear 

More than 3.4% of the world population has Visual impairment, of whom 0.5% are blind. Those people rely on the old stick method to avoid obstacles and rely on their other senses to recognize objects. Even though these methods are the most common, they are not efficient, as it’s widespread to see a blind person walk in the middle of the street, not knowing he’s going to get hit by a moving car.

Our mission is to design an AI-powered object recognition, and obstacle avoidance gadget that helps blind people not to worry about crashing into a wall, falling in a hole, or tripping on the pavement. This gadget is going to give voice feedback to the user, such as telling him there is an obstacle X meters away or do as simple as telling him what he is holding or what its color is. This project is made to help aid blind people and prevent them from tripping, falling, or crashing into obstacles indoors or outdoors. It could also be repurposed to be used to help RC cars, boats, or planes to navigate through obstacles and to help them path-find through complicated paths. It could even be repurposed mainly to recognize objects and measure depth, distance, etc. we use raspberry pi in our processes. we make a program made by python on the device to take photos and analysis them then converts them to an AI voice with a headphone to the user's ear.

our project is made for the blinds. those people rely on the old method of using a stick to avoid obstacles and rely on their other senses to recognize objects. They can not know what is in front of them its size, color, or type. our solution is going to solve some of these problems. the device is as size as the hand. we make it to put on a belt. you can use it in daily life while you are walking out for example.

Being in the electronics field for a little over 2 years now, our team has a lot of experience when dealing with electronics, especially with microcontrollers like Raspberry pi or the Arduino, which gave us a huge benefit over other teams, as we have past experience with this field. Moreover, each of us knows a bunch of programming languages from previous projects and contests. When we started this project, each of us had made a couple of object recognition projects on a much smaller scale, to solve a simple problem, or achieve a simple goal. Furthermore, each of us had an experience with visually impaired people, besides the intense research we made about the problem beforehand.

We started this project by researching on the internet about the problems that face visually impaired people on everyday bases, and the difficulties they face when doing simple everyday tasks. Then, we interviewed some of these people, some being from our families and other strangers to further understand the problem we’re dealing with, and try to find a proper solution for their problem in order to make them feel like normal people. After making some progress, we tested the prototype we made by giving it to some visually impaired people to give us feedback, and report us about problems with the initial design. This worked wonderfully, as we got a ton of feedback from these people and polished the overall experience of the device.

Our solution is different in that our solution is very small that can easily carry everywhere. Also, it is not expensive for users. 

we did not publish our project now but we think we will serve any blind. the number of blinds in Egypt is 1 million. we can serve 1 or 2% of them if we get adequate financial support.

we think money is the biggest obstacle to us.

There are not any organizations help us.