General

Edition

Congratulations!
Hapstick
October 14, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the Start Lausanne 2020 contest. Looking forward to the next step(s).

CHIC takes a break
September 14, 2020

Third update (January 2023) To our regret, we are still not in a position to resume the CHIC program. We hope to be in a position to re-start the program [...]

Meet Hapstick, Caring, Akane and more
ecal, EPFL, Milestone, T-PSY, T-Ψ, TΨ, UNIL, VUKOVI (ВУКОВИ), Wudan, Zhu Zhu
April 19, 2019

Milestone 4 is often a particular moment. Pivoting is no longer really an option. The excitement of first engineering successes is replaced by the challenges of building hardware in a [...]

Spring sprint
ecal, EPFL, Milestone, Presentation, T-Ψ, UNIL, VUKOVI (ВУКОВИ), Wudan, Zhu Zhu
March 22, 2019

A bit more than one month has gone by since the last milestone and one can safely say that the 4 teams from EPFL-ECAL-UNIL have not remained idle. The 3rd [...]

In and out
ecal, EPFL, Event, Flowlin, FLUID, Institution, Snooze, T-Ψ, ToyGether, UNIL, VUKOVI (ВУКОВИ), Zhu Zhu
December 10, 2018

A very busy evening for CHIC participants. We kicked-off with pitches from the 4 CHIC 2018-2019 teams in front of a jury of experts from industry (Peter Boehni, Daniel Brandenburger, [...]

Another busy Saturday
ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, HEPIA, UNIL, Workshop
November 3, 2018

Only a handful of days have gone by since the CHIC 2018-2019 kick-off. This time, teams gathered for one day to explore teamwork. On the agenda, leadership, decision-making, conflict management [...]

CHIC 2018-2019 on its way!
ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, T-Ψ, UNIL, Zhu Zhu, вукови
October 28, 2018

Exhausted from a very intensive week-end but very glad to have launched a new edition of CHIC full of promises and with very motivated participants. While the kick-off gave us [...]

Behind the scenes of “Lost in construction”
ecal, Media
September 28, 2018

Thanks to the support from the Canton de Vaud two students from ECAL's movie school joined us for the trip to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. A few words from Korlei Rochat [...]

Why bother?
ecal, EPFL, Flowlin, FLUID, ToyGether, UNIL
June 1, 2018

There are times in life when you can ask "why bother?". The third and last prototyping milestone offered a great answer. All teams really made an impression in terms of [...]

From breadboard to spring(board)
ecal, EPFL, Flowlin, FLUID, Milestone, ToyGether, UNIL
May 4, 2018

Kudos to the 3 teams for having shown some major progress at the 2nd prototyping milestone. While there is still some pivoting in the air, one starts to get a [...]

Toygether-FocusBooster-Oversee
ecal, EPFL, Flowlin, FLUID, Milestone, ToyGether, UNIL
March 23, 2018

Three teams, three projects and now three brands! The first prototyping milestone was the occasion to discover the progress made by the teams since the kick-off more than one month [...]

Final DemoDay at MassChallenge
Event, Ilanga, Livelo, Presentation, Todoo, Trobak
December 12, 2017

Great turnout for the second and last CHIC 2016-2017 DemoDay, hosted for the second time by MassChallenge Switzerland at the Ateliers de Renens. The 4 teams (Ilanga, Trobak, Livelo and [...]

Houston we have a problem…exploration
Flowlin, FLUID, Milestone, ToyGether
December 2, 2017

Great first milestone in Lausanne on December 1. The teams' job was to present their problem exploration both in the form of a report and of a live presentation, followed [...]

Teamwork 101
Workshop
November 4, 2017

While only one week has gone by since the ideation week-end, the participants of the CHIC 2017-2018 edition are already back for a workshop on teamwork led by Prof. Jack [...]

3 teams, 3 universes
Workshop
October 29, 2017

3 teams have emerged from an ideation week-end packed with a lot of exercises and teamwork. Sunday started with a graphic jam warm-up (see below). It was followed by the [...]

CHIC 2017-2018 onto a great start
Workshop
October 28, 2017

The Minor STAS/CHIC 2017-2018 is now officially underway. Participants of the new edition met on Friday evening at the EPFL-ECAL Lab (thanks to Cédric, Marius and Nicolas for hosting us). [...]

DemoDay@ECAL
Ilanga, Livelo, Todoo, Trobak
September 30, 2017

Great turnout for CHIC's 2016-2017 first DemoDay at ECAL! The floor was given to the designers who, each in their own style, related their CHIC experience. Todoo told the audience about their [...]

Exciting first milestone in Lausanne
Ilanga, Livelo, Presentation, Todoo, Trobak
March 25, 2017

In spite of all the work going on during the weeks, milestones are important moments in the CHIC process. They are a way to demonstrate the progress towards the development of [...]

Student innovation from Lausanne to China
Hong Kong Shenzhen, Media
October 24, 2016

Read the full post by Sarah Bourquenoud (EPFL/Mediacom) here. [caption id="attachment_3106" align="aligncenter" width="983"] Tikku team on EPFL's homepage[/caption]

CHIC 2017 onto a great start
October 16, 2016

The third edition of the China Hardware Innovation Camp got onto a great start thanks to the workshop on teams brilliantly organised and animated by Prof. Jacques Lanarès from the [...]

Discover the CHIC 2016 movie
Hong Kong Shenzhen
October 12, 2016

Thanks to the generous support of the Canton de Vaud (DGES), Maxime Descloux and Céline Dondénaz (from ecal's movie department) have followed one CHIC team during an entire edition of [...]

Join us for the CHIC 2016 DemoDays
Aimo, Hibachi, Okeep, Presentation, Tikku
September 14, 2016

CHIC 2016 is almost over but you have one last chance (actually two…) to catch up with us and discover what the 4 teams have achieved during this second edition. [...]

CHIC 2016 – 2nd milestone
Presentation
April 30, 2016

The second milestone (April 28) gave us a chance to see the great work put in by the four teams over the past 5 weeks. All teams managed to cover [...]

Tikku refueled
Tikku
April 16, 2016

Tikku is back after a long and pleasant vacation! We are refueled and ready to work harder! A break was all benefit, because we came up with new ideas and [...]

CHIC 2016 – 1st milestone
Presentation
March 24, 2016

Really great presentations today by all the CHIC 2016 teams as part of the first milestone as well as great feedback from the supervisors who managed to drop by. A number [...]

CHIC 2016 Kick-off
February 21, 2016

All the teams gathered on Satruday at the EPFL+ecal Lab for the CHIC 2016 kick-off. We started by covering the (numerous) weekly deliverables and the 3 milestones scheduled during the [...]

Weekly posts from teams
Aimo, Hibachi, Okeep, Tikku
February 19, 2016

You will soon find the team's weekly posts on their respective project pages (Aimo, Heaböx, Okeep and Tikku). Stay tuned...

Okeep’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Okeep
February 17, 2016

The functional requisites for Okeep's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are the following: Core functions: Blinkers Use the smartphone's GPS to indicate the way Sensors: accelerometer and switch The device would [...]

Some news from Shenzhen 4.0
Hong Kong Shenzhen
January 26, 2016

Great tour in Shenzhen and Hong Kong with Pascal Marmier, swissnex China's hyper-dynamic CEO. 6 days packed with meetings, visits and discussions ! Happy to announce renewed commitment from our [...]

4 teams selected for CHIC 2016 !
Presentation
November 19, 2015

A little more than 3 weeks have gone by since the ideation week-end. Just enough time for the 6 teams to "go out of the building" and test their initial [...]