🚶 WalkQuest AI — Turning Screen Time Into Outdoor Time with Gemma

During the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, Ramyasaichalla created WalkQuest AI, an AI-powered tool that transforms screen time into outdoor time. The idea behind WalkQuest AI is straightforward: instead of continuing screen time, the AI generates a personalized outdoor activity session based on the user's goal, available time, and fitness level.

To build WalkQuest AI, Ramyasaichalla leveraged the Gemma open-weight model, an AI model that can create the activity plan. Users provide their goal, available time, and fitness level, and the AI returns a personalized WalkQuest that includes a warm-up, main exercise, an outdoor challenge, cool-down, and a goal for the session.

The AI-generated WalkQuest helps users step away from their screens and engage in interactive outdoor activities. The project uses Python Flask for the backend, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the interactive interface, and the JavaScript handles the exercise timer.

In addition to generating walking sessions, WalkQuest AI includes features like pause/resume, outdoor observation challenges, session completion notifications, and beginner-friendly safety reminders. With open-weight AI models like Gemma, the project showcases how students and independent developers can use AI to create useful applications.

The complete project is available on GitHub: https://github.com/Ramyasaichalla/WalkQuest-AI.git. Future improvements for WalkQuest AI include weather-aware activity suggestions, outdoor route suggestions, walking progress tracking, activity history, and offline AI support. Remember, WalkQuest AI provides general activity suggestions and is not a medical or fitness prescription.