git clone … study-buddy cd study-buddy

1 Bridge (writes to Firestore)

cd bridge source .venv/bin/activate # or activate however you prefer pip install -r requirements.txt python serial_to_firestore.py # (or add MOCK_SERIAL=1 to .env to fake data)

2 Frontend (reads from Firestore)

cd ../frontend cp .env.local.example .env.local

← paste in your six NEXT_PUBLIC_… values here

npm install npm run dev