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In 2022, applicants were tasked with creating a Swift Playgrounds app project on the topic of your choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Mehmet Bertan describes his winning submission.

Inspired by how Professor Stephen Hawking used to type on his wheelchair computer and talk, BlinkBoard aims to improve and make the technology accessible to more people who need it by bringing it to a widespread and relatively affordable device: the iPad. As it's name suggests, you operate BlinkBoard by blinking with your eyes instead of moving your cheek as Professor Hawking did. This is achieved by using the Vision framework and calculating the user's eye aspect ratio to detect blinks.