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Autoimmune Disease Food Scanner

[One or two sentences: who it is for, and what it tells them.]

Year
Mar – Jun 2025
Status
Prototype
Context
Personal project
Role
Model pipeline, prototype, and pitch
Stack
PyTorch · Hugging Face · pandas
Recognition
$3K SPRINT grant · World Affairs Conference 2025
[ Screenshot of the scanner, or a photo of it in use — save to assets/media/photos/ ]

The problem

[The problem — what makes an avoid-list hard to actually follow.]

[Where the idea came from, and who you were building it for.]

What it does

[What it does from a camera feed — and what it deliberately does not claim.]

How it works

[The pipeline, stage by stage.]

[Where the pipeline was least reliable, and what you did about it.]

What I built

  • [The model pipeline.]
  • [The prototype.]
  • [The pitch.]

Recognition

Pitched atWorld Affairs Conference 2025 · SPRINT business competition
Outcome$3K SPRINT Provincial Business Grant

Limitations and what comes next

  • [The scope limit: what it is and is not.]
  • [The technical limits you hit.]
  • [What you would build next.]