BE(A)Real



Artistic Documentation

For our final project, we made a study bear inspired by Be Real. Millie the BeReal Bear takes a photo of you while you are in a timed study session, and uploads it to keep you accountable.

Inspiration

As students, we are familar with how difficult it can be to sit down and get work done. With our setup of a timer and a bear taking a picture at some point in the study window, we thought that we could take advantage of a person's fear of being caught not studying to help motivate them to actually focus during the session. We were inspired by a spy bear project from a past student to use an ESP32-Cam and a Bear theme.

image of the homepage

Challenges

The largest challenge was adapting code to make our ESP32 email the photo we took. After trial and error with the ESP-Mail-Client library, we decided to change our project goal so that the device will upload a photo, and a separate set of code could send the automatic email. We abandoned our PyGame GUI, but we were satisfied with the HTML webpage that we ended up with-- it worked toward the same goal of ensuring studying accountability.

To try this yourself, follow this link to our code repository and check out our README for technical details.

Technical Documentaion

Link to github repository: https://github.com/susannaha8/B-Real