Hi all,

I hope you’re doing.

The WatchOn team is reaching Milestone 5 (24 June) and we are working to get ready for it.

In terms of Software, the major parts of the app have been designed and we began the development of the POC three weeks ago. We are now able to communicate with the backend!

Regarding the Hardware, we are facing a few problems regarding the manufacture access but we still do […]

This is our final team blog post, Roots. The last milestone, two weeks ago, didn’t really close our yearly collaboration as we had to stay close for everyone’s exams (ECAL and EPFL are having exam sessions for CHIC projects). This milestone was marked by an extensive work on the story-telling and for the pitch. After discussing between […]

Odeji, the meeting assistant
Our object offers multiple interactions. They are first of all physical: it is by caressing Odeji that the meeting leader closes a point of the meeting and moves on to the next one. The movement of the human is accompanied by a light signal from the machine. The second type of interaction takes place in the applicat […]

Hi everyone!

It’s with sadness that I write this last blog post from the Shockeys…

What a year have we spent together!

We have reached Milestone 5 with pride! We were able to show our working PCB as well as the final design of our headband. Of course, we are far from a perfect product, nevertheless with the time we had at our disposal and the coronavirus situation, w […]

We have been gone for a while and an update is long long due.

Let’s start with a small refresher:

Our device combats hearing loss for workers in the building field by flashing when the sound level is above 85db. The flash aims at alerting that workers should wear a hearing protection from now on.

Since, our device is not called « device » anymore but « Canary » !

Wh […]

Hi everyone!

We hope you’re all doing well. It was another productive week for the Shockeys.

We met twice as a team to work on our logo, color palette, and branding. Choosing the values we want to associate with as a brand is tough. We’re trying to find the best trade-off between a clean and minimalist Medtech identity and a more sporty and combative vibe.

Our first PCBs and some addi […]

The two past weeks since MS4 were very productive for the Shockeys team.

On the engineering side, Maëlick has been actively working with his supervisor, Dr. Benjamin Ricaud, to find the best functions to extract the impacts from our mock measurements with our work-like prototype. Taavet tweaked some last things on our PCBs base […]

Hi all!

During last 2 weeks we’ve been refining the PCB and schematic design (there are always errors to be found!) and we are now almost ready to send our first version of the PCB to production! We defined all the components and added a battery monitoring feature. We also included an RGB Led to show the battery state. Hopefully by next week we will receive the PCB and start testing its functiona […]

Hi everyone,
Here’s some news about the WatchOn’s Milestone4 from last Wednesday! The meeting went well and we’ve had a lot of good feedback!
A great job was done to rework for the cleanest and more user-friendly frontend of the app. This was the result of six precious health givers’ feedbacks and improveme […]

Hello to all Shockeys’ followers!

We’re happy to announce that Milestone 4 is behind us and that it went well. We were able to present our current design made by our industrial designer, Marine. We also described our current business model, which is basically a one-time payment for a basic app for the parents and a subscription […]

Hello everybody ! Hope everyone is doing well !

I lot of progress have been done by the team recently in order to get ready for MS4. We got a prototype of our strap made with leather which integrate the batteries. The result is impressive as we can barely notice the batteries.  The bad part is that the capacity reminds pretty low. However. we already got some ideas to improve that issue.

From a […]

Hello everyone,

During last week we finalized our prototype and we started thinking about the battery consumption and integration within the plastic case. We also thought about how we could display the state of the battery wit […]

Hello all CHIC followers !

Working has got you down ? Us too !!!

We’ve been trying our best to meet the goals we all set for us in these trying times but it’s only getting harder. 

With the lack of information, the limited access to tools […]

Hi everyone,

This week has been really busy. After weeks of hard work and iterations, we are happy to announce that the final WatchOn brand is out 🥳🎉

Its logo gives you an overview of the whole brand look and feel. We wanted it to be modern and simple because our mission is crystal clear: help people take care of others 🤝

In terms of colors, we wanted the brand to feel welcoming and co […] 5 years, 1 month ago

Hi all.

The last week was dedicated to the development of our PCB, which is now almost done, and to the finalization of our electronic circuit. A severe modification happened in our design: we decided to get rid of the atmega328p (it is the processor of the Arduino boards) and to do everything using the esp8266. Indeed, it turned out that those modules are extremely easy to program (and to debug) […]

Hi everyone!

This week was rather relaxed as all five team members are technically on Easter break. Yet, we all know that the CHIC program never really pauses. Therefore, we continued to work on the project.

All three engineers met online on Thursday morning for a quick update and debugging session.

Maelick has created our team account to use the database services offered by Goo […]

Hello everybody,

This week we have received some bad news from our team members …

The first and most important one, Lucie, head of the industrial design, leaves the CHIC. Following a discussion with her supervisor, it was decided that she would no longer work on our project due to the lack of design. We wish her all the best in his new project.

To continue, Ricardo, in charge of the electron […]

# Recap of what is up, for the engineering team of ROOTS

Our team, roots, has encountered many problems since this confinement. This post will relate them and explain the solutions that we found. Despite the fact that – clearly – we couldn’t do what we intended to (We needed to take some drastic decision to make the project sensibly easier) and that we became fairly late on the schedule, we belie […]