Industrial Design Engineering

Bachelor Assignment

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Zeijts, T.C. van (Thijs)

Autonomously moving chess pieces

At: DGT

DGT is the frontrunner in chess technology. DGT develops, produces, markets and sells a complete range of chess products, like chess clocks, electronic chess pieces & boards and chess computers. DGT is market leader and sells in 100+ countries. Their innovative ideas keep the chess world engaged with the latest technologies. This project focusses on the first phases of product design. An explorative analysis phase that focussed on market research, literature research, stakeholder analysis, end user evaluations (interviews) and a technical analysis. After the analysis phase an extensive requirement specification was defined. The ideation phase focussed on generating a multitude of ideas. After that four concepts were chosen to further develop in the concept phase. Finally two prototypes were made to test the feasibilities of the concepts.

Exam date: 25-08-2021