## Inspiration

We were inspired by <https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com/>. Thus we decided to build a website where anyone can vent about what's on their mind.
## Inspiration

* We decided to build a website that a user could use to relieve any anxiety or stress they might be experiencing, in the name of restoration!
## What it does
* Our project is a website that allows users to write anything on a page, and then click on a menu bar to destroy whatever was written, so they can forget about it!
## How we built it
* This project was built in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. We hosted the website on Replit and used it as a medium to code together.
## Challenges we ran into
* Being that neither of us had much experience in these languages, especially JavaScript, working with CSS alignment as well as functions in JavaScript was most difficult, but also where we learned the most.
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
* The places where we saw challenges are the same places where we learned the technology to overcome them. For example, we learned how to use events in JavaScript and dynamic CSS styling for the first time to implement certain things like the pop-up fire.
## What we learned
* The point of this project was to learn the basics of web development, it was difficult to code the animations with vanilla JavaScript but it was a learning experience.
## What's next for Write it! Forget it!
* To implement the other two buttons, and rewrite some of the CSS to make the web page more inviting.
## Inspiration

Throughout my life, the news has been littered with stories of bridges collapsing and infrastructure decaying all across the continent. You have probably seen them too. The quality of our infrastructure is a major challenge which smart cities could address.

But did you know that repairing and replacing all this infrastructure (in particular anything with large amounts of steel or cement ) is a major contributor to greenhouse gases? Globally, cement is responsible for 7% of all emissions and construction overall accounts for 23%. Reducing our need to construct would go a long way towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, curbing climate change, and lowering the particulates in the air.

## What it does

One of the major causes of bridges decaying before their time is unexpected environmental factors such as a far wider range of temperatures (a consequence of climate change). As temperatures rise, materials expand. As temperatures fall, materials contract. This is what leads to cracks in concrete and stone.

Where this technology comes in is that it tracks the temperature fluctuations at the specific point where the material is to allow for highly precise modeling of when it should be checked for smaller cracks. Smaller cracks are orders of magnitude cheaper to repair than larger cracks.

## How I built it

It was built with an ESP32, Google Compute Instance with Flask, Grafana, and a variety of other technologies which I am too tired to mention. I tried to include an Uno and camera as well, but that did not get far given the time alloted.

## Challenges I ran into

Poor Wifi prevented the downloading of much of anything in the way of libraries. A lot of work needed to be done on the cloud.

## What's next for The Bridge Owl

We shall see.

Source code: <https://drive.google.com/open?id=11JEiwNHQvUu0oYLax53ANwNo4ygarcdb>