Hi everyone,

The Shockeys hope you’re doing well at home and that you had a good Easter!

We believed that five motivated students, working on an incredible project, with a perfect cohesion, would be invincible. Sadly, reality hit us hard. Communication with hockey clubs went out of the window, and thus, all the MVP testing has become impossible. It had a significant impact on our project as […]

Hi everyone,

We hope that you all had a great week-end! During this time, we focused our efforts on improving our design, especially to make things smaller. A great work has been made on the PCB development as well as on the electronic enclosure.

Things need to be small but also user friendly. That’s why we are thinking over the way to recharge the device. Fortunately, we have some great concept […]

Hi everyone,

We hope you had a happy Easter with your relatives. With this message, I’d like to sum up our talks from last week.

The project is going on without big difficulties ; some aspects from the MS3 are being reviewed and improved.

Moreover, the sensors of our prototype were tested from the electronic side and its programmation is being processed.

A meeting about data use was he […]

It’s time for a little update on the current status of our work, since a lot of progress was made during last month.

Our idea of a connected sensor that transforms plant’s activity into an art piece is taking form: we set […]

Hello everybody,

Recently we had the opportunity to meet with our supervisors for the milestone 3. Since there we have and are reconsidering the design of our strap. We are looking for something more universal that will be compatible with the majority of the watches (Men and women). By the way we just made a prototype of the strap case and notice that this one is a bit big.

With the current situ […]

Despite the confinement, we continue to work on our project. The last two weeks we redefined and planned again our objectives for the project.

Because of the school lockdown, we are unable for now to achieve some parts of the building and prototyping phase concerning the mechanical domain. However, the first communications tests have been carried out with the application, and we have received t […]

We’ve just had our milestone 3 check up this week. Since we are all in a semi-lockdown period, the meeting had to be done online. 21st century connectivity has its own perks.
Our team has chosen a flight control board and figured out how this flying ball must be configured to work properly. The main electronic schematics and database architecture have been defined. Some testing with the <span cla […]

Hi everyone,

We hope everyone is well in this period of isolation.

After this first week at home, the team was still able to progress towards MS3. The branding is in progress and the first communication between the straps and the server will soon be done.

However, the team is concerned about covid-19. We hope to get more information this Friday during MS3.

Be careful and stay home.

See you ne […]

Hi everyone!

We hope you’re all healthy and at home during these unusual times.  

Due to the current situation, the CHIC project has been put on hold for all EPFL and HEC students.

However, this is not the case for ECAL students, even though their ca […]

Milestone 3 is now approaching and many things have changed since Milestone 2 ( among which a global epidemic), but our initial idea of connecting people to plants through technology hasn’t changed.

Following the suggestion  of our supervisor, we decided to create an interactive art piece to sensibilize people about the relation we humans have with our environment and especially plants.

During […]

Hi everyone,

We hope you are all doing well! From our side, we keep on working to have our first prototype ready as soon as possible. We are currently focusing on having our strap compatible with a large number of watches.

The objective for milestone 3 is to be able to offer different alternatives on the hardware/design side such as different closing mechanisms and different battery integrations […]

Hey everyone,

The development continue in order to archieve our goals for milestone 3. The current situation won’t stop us to develop our solution !

Each members of the team analyse the risks, prepare what we need based on the requirements, begin prototyping,…
Business side, we started doing some qualitative interviews so we can specify more precisely our solution. Some people seems already ve […]

Since Milestone 2 the team members have been concentrating on their respective fields of expertise. Business has been digging into pie charts, with the first results back from our desirability survey. We still need more results, so the whole team would be very grateful if you would take 3 minutes to answer it https://forms.gle/dYtrxo7wQi93aK487. Th […]

Hello everybody,

So far so good ! The tests that we have been doing on the patients are positives, which means that the patient doesn’t reject the strap.

From the technical perspective, we decide to go with the technology NB-IoT over LaRa Network for several reasons. One of them is that we want the coverage to be as good as possible around the world and this is something that we can achieve wi […]

Hello, dear followers of the CHIC Projects!

The Shockeys are working hard on Milestone 3 to give the best overview of our device.  

Diane and Taavet had a long talk with their supervisor, Professor Schmid, about the WHOLE architecture of the device and the possibility of not having access […]

Hi everybody,

finally, we start to receive a lot of response from our quantitative survey, we invited a couple of associations of disabled people to transmit the quantitative questionnaire in order to expand the survey in this field.

As far as the business, software, hardware, interface and mechanics are concerned, we are starting to work independently, but also in connection with the ot […]

Hi everyone!

The past weeks have been tough for the world as the outbreak of coronavirus is spreading across the world and has hit Switzerland. Thankfully, the Shockeys are all healthy, and we continue to thrive as an energetic and motivated team!

As we’re working on our M […]

Good evening everyone,

This week has been very encouraging for us. Since the lift-off weekend, we had a few doubts about the desirability of our watch strap.

As was rightly pointed out to us, we didn’t know whether changing the strap would mean changing the watch itself for a person with Alzheimer’s. That is why we decided to make a full-scale test.

We took the watch from a person with Alzheime […]

Hello everyone,

Last week has been pretty intense but productive, after last meeting each one of us has a clear idea of what is to be done next: Alan is in charge of building a physical model of our object, Malik and Leonardo have to test the light feedback and Arthur has to implement the tactile interaction with the plants.

Even though we have been working out we realized one important thing: b […]

Hi everyone!

Last week was really packed with Milestone 2 and the lift-off weekend. This week was a bit lighter for our team. Marine is (finally!) enjoying her holidays. The four other members of the team started their spring semester at HEC Lausanne for Nicolas and EPFL for the three engineers.

We still managed to meet on Thursday morning. The set-up was a bit hybrid between digital and phy […]