ReStitch 🧶🪡

a cozy platform for your next craft: upcycling your old clothes. includes ai chatbot that gives you creative ideas for upcycling and teaches you the steps

Motivation: our team combined our interests in fashion and climate change. our goal is to bring attention to the huge amounts of textile waste and offer a creative alternative to throwing out old clothes

Methodology and Functionality: kode with klossy ai/ml SF cohort! semantic search, retrieval augmented generation, gradio and chatinterface, transfer learning

Struggles and Takeaways: a lot of weird issues with getting the chatbot functioning, switched to a new space and then back, problems with having it end its text a complete sentence. lessons: collaboration! to take a break and go for a walk and come back to it

Brought to you by Rhea, Delilah, and Angel