Memory Box

Inspiration

Time Capsules can show the past and can be sentimental for some people depending on the time capsule. We thought that if people can store things for people and even themselves to open and look back at the past than why not do it with memories as well. There are also a lot of people who have Alzheimer's or dementia and cant remember those memories. Our website can be a fun and simple way for both the elderly, adults, and kids can write their memories.

What it does

This takes a memory that a person wrote down in a text area and creates a .json file with the memory and what time the person wants it to be unlocked. Then it will save it as a local storage file with the memory inside of it. Then when the set time has past the website will search the local storage for the file and will pull it up

How we built it

We first drew our what we wanted the UI to look like before we even started coding. We than used HTML and CSS to put together UI and the front end of the Website. After we had the front end put together we started on the JavaScript. The JavaScript took the longest because we needed to use a lot of documentation from various websites on how certain functions work and how to use them

Challenges we ran into

harnessing our creativity to figure out what the UI will look like as well as coming up with the idea. How we solved that problem was we talked about problems in our lives and how we can solve them. We figured out what the UI would look like by drawing out what we would want it to look like and than moving on from there.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to create a full website, and creating a local file that can be called upon in the futute

What we learned

We learned how to create a full website that has a purpose. We also learned how to create a .json file and store it locally. Also when the website is opened it will search the local files and get the contents.

What's next for Memory Box

We can create a server with the website on it. This will allow us to have a family sign in. And a family can write their favorite memories with each other and 5, 10, 15 years after the memory got recorded they will get a notification that a new memory was unlocked. This will strengthen family bonds and allow families to remember moments even if that member has died and/or the memory is forgotten.

Built With

• css
• html5
• javascript
• localstorage