What a journey we had! For the past seven months, our team has kept working and improving every single day. We started from late October by not knowing each other at all. During the so-called “Ideation Week-end”, we managed to foster our relationships and team NAPaC was born. Our team-name NAPaC (Not A Pasta Cooker) reflects both […]

What a journey we had! For the past seven months, our team has kept working and improving every single day. We started from late October by not knowing each other at all. During the so-called “Ideation Week-end”, we managed to foster our relationships and team NAPaC was born. Our team-name NAPaC (Not A Pasta Cooker) reflects both […]

Dear CHIC Community

After presenting the latest iteration of the CORE system at the MS3 to our supervisors in Fribourg, we left with some very insightful feedbacks to improve the product.

The interactions between the restaurant owners and the application was a major discussion topic aft […]

Dear CHIC community,

Just a quick message before the final Milestone presentation (in Switzerland!) and before leaving for China!

We finally implemented the first technical prototype: We have integrated a new bluetooth module which will connect to iPhones and will toggle the D […]

The final race that will bring all of us in Shenzhen has officially begun, and trust me it will be messy! While the semester is about to be over to leave room for the upcoming examinations, the CHIC schedule has no breaks planned. In less than a week, the team will face the third and last prototyping milestone (MS5). We will have the chance to show everything that has been achieved so far in busin […] 7 years, 2 months ago

Dear CHIC community,

Brace yourselves for the upcoming milestone, for our product is becoming real. Indeed, the final milestone of the semester before leaving to Shenzhen is next Thursday’s presentation. There has been strong progress made this week, so let’s have a recap.
Hardware
We have finally received the confirmation from Seeedstudio that the first iteration of our PCB was manu […]

Dear CHIC Community

Our trip to China is getting closer and we have to get some major pending work done.
Berk is currently working on the final touch of our PCB design. Amandine is testing different shapes of the device and different types of materia […]

We had our meeting last week on Monday. It was the second meeting after last milestone. But it was also only two weeks before the final milestone. Now the proximity detection goes well,  we are targeting at other functions. PCB is done with the final version. And the ordering of it has been finished. The outside shape of casing is being updated based on the PCB size. We would also do the  interv […]

Hi everyone!

We’ve been a bit late on the blog updates, but we’ve been super busy with our electronics, design and more! We presented our first soft prototype at MS5: a plush toy that could connect to a parent’s smartphone to initiate a common play session.

However, our prototype my look cute and kid-friendly, but the electronics inside were way too fragile to let anyone play with […]

Hello CHIC community,

How have you been?

On our part, we are working hard! The last week we were able to make quite some progress on the project. We are moving forward steadily, and things are accelerating, be it on the engineer, designer, or business side. There are a couple of interviews scheduled shortly, in which we will be able to speak to a Daycare Foundation for children, ge […]