Mohit Manoj Barade@mohit_manoj_barade778

Imagine walking through an unfamiliar room with your eyes closed. You need to know what is ahead, what is around you, and how to reach the chair someone mentioned — without cloud latency or sending your camera feed anywhere. EchoWalk is built for that moment. On a Galaxy S25 Ultra, one shared camera pipeline feeds a central ModeManager that decides when to warn, when to describe, and when to search — all on the Snapdragon NPU via ExecuTorch and Qualcomm QNN. Safety Radar runs continuously. Depth Anything V2 and YOLOv10 fuse on the Hexagon NPU: not just what is there, but how far and whether it is a trip hazard or a wall you can trail. Spatial audio and haptics place obstacles in space; a VoiceWarningEngine speaks when it matters. A live bounding-box overlay helps sighted helpers follow along in demos. Scene Description is on demand — tap the preview, the Describe button, or long-press Volume Up. A short burst of frames runs through a Places365 classifier and pairs the room label with live YOLO directions: "You appear to be in a living room — couch on your left, TV ahead." Auto-describe announces stable scene changes hands-free. The full SmolVLM-500M stack is integrated and validated through handoff scripts; richer VLM captions are ready for the next aligned build. Find Mode is voice-first. Long-press Volume Down, say "find the bottle," and the app maps your words to everyday object labels. It scans the room, guides you turn by turn, warns about obstacles in your path, highlights the target on screen, and remembers where it last saw it so the next search starts with a hint. Accessibility is front and center: lock-screen access, screen-on at launch, spoken onboarding with a first orientation from live radar, eyes-free volume shortcuts, and double-tap to repeat your last description. No cloud. No upload. Your home never leaves your pocket.

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🌎 Hybrid Hackathon | 📅 September 15–17, 2026 | 📍 Santa Clara Convention Center + Online The official hackathon of AI Infra Summit, co-organized by Kisaco Research and lablab.ai. Join builders, researchers, founders, and AI infrastructure leaders to create applications powered by the technologies shaping the future of AI: compute, data movement, models, physical AI, and next-generation infrastructure. With more than 8,000 attendees expected at AI Infra Summit, this hackathon is an opportunity to build, showcase your work, and connect directly with the companies driving the AI ecosystem forward. 📍On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered.

🌉 On-site Only Hackathon | 📅 June 27–28, 2026 | 📍 San Francisco, CA This is an in-person hackathon in San Francisco for selected participants. Capacity is limited to 150 people, teams must include 3–5 members, and there is no online or hybrid participation. Build real-time AI apps that run directly on Snapdragon-powered mobile devices using ExecuTorch. Selected teams will get Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra devices on-site for building, testing, and live demos. 📍 On-site Venue (June 27–28): The Web Data Loft by Bright Data 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 📱 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra devices provided on-site for selected teams 🧠 Learn from Qualcomm and Meta experts through workshops, mentorship, and hands-on support 🏆 Prizes include Meta Quest 3 headsets, Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses, and post-event project support 🧑‍💻 Apply now to build the future of on-device AI with ExecuTorch and Snapdragon. Once pre-approved, you will receive further instructions on how to complete the acceptance process. Application deadline: June 17, 2026, at 11:59 PM PDT.