Nature Hunt: Explore the World Outside Your Screen

Description and use

Nature Hunt lets users search for local birds, plants, and rocks by location and receive AI explanations.

Users want to discover local bird, plant, and rock species they have never seen before.

Nature Hunt enables users to discover local natural objects and receive AI explanations, improving outdoor exploration.

1. User enters a location in the web app.
2. Express.js server queries SerpApi for images related to that location.
3. Images are returned to the frontend.
4. React frontend displays the images.
5. For each image, the frontend sends a prompt to Ollama running Gemma 3 (gemma3:1b‑it‑q4_K_M).
6. Gemma 3 generates a textual explanation of the image.
7. The explanation is displayed alongside the image.

I used SerpApi to search for images based on the location users entered, and I used Gemma 3 (gemma3:1b-it-q4_K_M) to explain what they are.

I created an Express.js server and integrated SerpApi so that I can access the images through the API I created.

I used Ollama to run an AI model locally, which gave me more control over the model.