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A small robot that plays the iPhone game Word Hunt by itself. A camera reads the letter board, software finds the words, and a robotic finger swipes them faster than any human could.

Wordhawk · Best Use of MemryX Edge AI Accelerator (122 teams) · MHacks · Sep 2025

Wordhawk

Devpost ↗Watch on YouTube ↗

Best Use of MemryX Edge AI Accelerator (122 teams) · MHacks · Sep 2025

A small robot that plays the iPhone game Word Hunt by itself. A camera reads the letter board, software finds the words, and a robotic finger swipes them faster than any human could.

Why it won: The robotic finger is a hacked-apart 3D printer, which is why it swipes with machine precision. All the letter reading happens on a small chip right next to the phone, with no internet round trip to slow it down, and between games it tells you what the words it found actually mean. It is a complete little machine: eyes, brain, and finger.

Built by Cindy Yang, Abhineet Repala, Teja Koduru

Built with

socketstailwindvite

Devpost ↗Watch on YouTube ↗View the code on GitHub ↗

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