We made a table that lets two people in any location play chess together using physical pieces. 

We wanted to make a device that let people around the world play games together. Games are a fun way to spend time with another person. Often people play games with people in different locations online. We think that the physicals pieces in games often add to the experience, and we wanted people to be able to use physicals pieces even when playing with people in the different location.

We used two laptop stands to make glass chess boards. The chess tables would be put in different locations. The tables can communicate with each other so that the player can see the move of their opponent at the other table. There would be one set of physical pieces and one set of projected pieces. You can move the physical pieces, and the tables would take a picture and project it on the other table. This is an easy and intuitive way to play chess with people around the world.

It is human nature to be curious, and that applies to every situation. Whether it is scientists searching through the depths of outer space, or a dog sniffing a tree in a new park, curiosity is inevitable. With this in mind, we designed the Lill Ridge to keep other people's curiosity out of your things. This desk can be used anywhere and by anyone. We chose to make a very minimal desk because moving it becomes a lot easier, and with a nice bamboo wood finish, it can look good in any setting. Some of our thoughts on the best uses are, the office to protect important documents. At home, to keep things hidden from your parents. At college, to keep more expensive things safe from people who walk in and out of the dorm room. These are just three of the many possible places to put the desk.

We modified the LILLÅSEN IKEA desk but decided to do almost all of the modifications on the inside so the look of the desk stays simple and minimal to keep to the original design of the desk. The middle drawer has been cut down to accommodate the electronics. To help with cable management an extension cord was embedded under the desk. Unlike many other locking desks on the market we chose not to use a key, because keys are not very reliable. They can be copied or lost, and the lock can be picked by any amateur with a smartphone. Therefore, we chose to include two different types of codes. The first is a magnetic sensor inside the desk that is triggered with a magnet on the top. The second method, a keypad, is more secure because even if someone sees you pressing the numbers they will not be able to see what is being put in as the keypad is on the underside of the desk. Finally, because we know everyone has a few late nights every once in a while we added lights to each of the drawers so all of your items can easily be seen at any time of the day.

• First Slide general Context: Many Americans are living in small apartments like the one shown above, so cramped that its unlikly they will have space for any furniture, and if they do have furniture they have no space for activitys. 
• third slide so our problem is to create a cheap versatile and storable  alternative to normal furniture, and our solution was to take a ottoman for Ikea and mutate the producaut to become  a foldable ottoman that connects to form two chairs a couch. 
• Precedents. here you can see the Ikea ottoman named the PÖANG, we liked this ottoman because of its slim frame which would lead to easy storage and its comfortable cushion, but sadly it had no back support and so we looked into chair (Switch Slides) Now at a chair we saw an obvious flaw, being that only one person could sit on it at a time. So we decided to  create a piece that would solve of these issues and still be cheap. 
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• Iterations 1. Our first iteration is a ottoman that when activated would have half of it raise up and be a chair back, we went away from this because we didn't want to have to cut into an existing ottoman, 
• Iteration 2 was a wooden ottoman with foldable back flaps that came up from behind that would snap into place become the back of the chair. We didn't like it because of the way to bring the chair back up because our use of springs proved to be unwieldy
• Iteration 3 Here we were looking into the connection piece between the ottomans to form the couch, we started with this simple piece here that would fit on the legs like a skirt and hold the legs in place.
• Iteration 4. our final version of the leg connection was a latch system that would have two mounts on either chair and would be pinned together with a dowel. 
• Construction diagram, This diagram can help outline the use of the drop leaf hinges and show what the chair will look like connected.
• Use Diagram, her shows the motion of the hinges and what the ottoman will look like when it is the downward position.
• Here are our final images Showing the ottomans when they need to be stored in chair form and in couch form. 

  In many small studio apartments, people don't have the space or money to afford multiple chairs. In this project, we add onto a simple IKEA ottoman, and make it able to convert between a simple ottoman, a table, and a full chair. 
 Living in a studio apartment requires you to make decisions on how you want to fill the small amount of space you have. One of the most common problems studio apartment owners have is making room for their chair, their coffee table, extra chairs for when guests visit, and being able to put the furniture away when it is no longer needed. With all of these needs in mind, people normally buy one chair, a coffee table, a sofa, and a normal footstool. However, while you could fit all of this furniture into a house, but in a studio apartment, every inch of space matters to keep the room from looking like a cluttered mess. With this necessity in mind, me and my partner came up with the idea of making a price of furniture as small as a ottoman, while also having multiple uses. However, this ottoman would cost half as much as a full chair, and at half the size. 
  With both compact ability  and cost in mind, we created a convertible piece of furniture, which has all the needs of a small studio apartment. By simply connecting a second ottoman seat to the back of the footstool, you are able to lift the back to change it to whatever you need. While the back is down, you have a flat, stable coffee table. At 45 degrees, the ottoman returns to its original function of being a footrest, with the addition of a pillow above your feet to add to the comfortability. Finally, at a full 90 degrees, the furniture becomes a chair. With multiple ottomans, you can also connect them, making them into a sofa. By simply latching one onto the other, they will stay connected as long as you need, and then just release the latch once you are done. As well, multiple ottomans stack onto one another easily, and can be put into the corner or in a closet when you need more space. With the cost of a small ottoman, and the functionality of a chair, table and sofa, the ottoman would be a benefit to any small apartment owners.

My partner and my project is a system that sends you an alert around your house to show that you got a text. This is helpful for when you leave your Phone for when you are trying to charge it. This allows you to know that someone is trying to reach you as your charging it, instead of not realizeing untill you get back to your phone. the device will know you got a txt when your fone vibrates on a platform, this would be a shelf next to an outlet. and then why want to uses a dome like decor that you can put anywhere you want and as many as you want and we would put leaces that we will creat and when someone txt you the sencor to the shelf will tell a fan inside of decor to work and the leaves will float and spin around and look like a storm. 

My partner and i were thought of an idea to signal someone when they get a text while there charging there done. We thought of lights that turn different colors into a patter, an or an alarm that plays different music or a specific noise, but we thought there were already things like that. Then we had the idea of making it look like a snow globe but instead of using water we use wind from a fan. We also had the idea of being able to have a seasonal theme so we can have for winter snow, for spring flowers, and for fall leaves.  When the fan turns on the objects would fly in the container notifying that someone got a message.

We based our modal after an Ikea product which originally was a decor and made it useful. The way it works is the is a little shelf that fits the size of a phone next to whatever outlet that the person is using and the shelf senses the vibration. That way the person knows they need to respond to a notification. And also that a person wouldn’t have to listen to an annoying sound ever time they got a text or look at a blinking light. 

Our context image is of the pixar animation called Geri's Game, where an old man plays chess against himself. The emotion of joy and excitement presented was something we wanted to emulate. We thought that the complexity of chess and how so any people know it, it would create a fun, but competitive enviroment would bring together passers by the most effictively.