This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass

🌱 TouchGrass AI — Stop Scrolling. Start Exploring.

What I Built

I built TouchGrass AI, a local AI-powered outdoor activity companion designed to help people spend less time on screens and more time in the real world.

The idea is simple:

Use AI for a few seconds → get an outdoor mission → put the phone away → go outside. 🌱

The user chooses:

• ⏱️ How much time they have
• 🌿 What outdoor activity they want
• 👥 Who they are with

TouchGrass AI then uses a locally running AI model to generate a short, practical outdoor mission.

For example, a user with 30 minutes who chooses Nature can receive a simple nature exploration challenge with 3–5 steps.

The project is designed for anyone who wants a quick reason to walk, explore, observe nature, or spend time outdoors with friends and family.

The goal isn't to create another app that keeps users chatting with AI.

The goal is to make the screen the shortest part of the experience.

Demo

The project currently runs locally using Streamlit and Ollama.

I will include a short screen recording showing:

1. Selecting the available time
2. Selecting an outdoor activity
3. Selecting who I'm with
4. Generating an outdoor mission
5. Taking the generated mission outside

Code

The complete source code is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/Samruddhipathrikar/TouchGrassAI

The repository contains the Streamlit application and its dependencies.

How I Built It

I built TouchGrass AI using Python, Streamlit, Ollama, and the open-weight Llama 3.2 3B model.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Streamlit
• Ollama
• Llama 3.2 3B
• Requests

The user interacts with a simple Streamlit interface.

The application collects the user's:

• Available time
• Preferred outdoor activity
• Company

These inputs are converted into a prompt for the local Llama 3.2 model.

The application sends the prompt to Ollama through its local API:

http://localhost:11434/api/chat

The generated response is then displayed as the user's outdoor mission.

Architecture

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User
  ↓
Streamlit UI
  ↓
Time + Activity + Company
  ↓
Prompt
  ↓
Ollama Local API
  ↓
Llama 3.2 3B
  ↓
Outdoor Mission
  ↓
🌱 Go Outside