Hi everyone,

It’s been a while.

We’re not gonna make a post to tell you everything that we did since the end of our edition of the program, we’re just here to tell you that Trobak took part to a start-up idea contest, the Start Contest at UNIL, and after a few months of work, we reached the final.

We were 40, only 6 remains and today’s the day they’ll announce the winner during a ceremony […]

Dear CHIC,

Happy Eater!

We has planned and begun our new work schedule. With the activation and creativity brought by Milestone 3, we did a lot of researches into the possibilities from the suggestions of supervisors. And we also had several detailed discussions about the functions of our project during this week. Finally, we made sure that we still want to make a device for helping drownin […]

Engineering SCRUM board

Hello followers,
we didn’t waste too much time after our MS3 pitch and demo to directly go back to work. We have received a big load of […]

Dear CHIC Community,

Last friday, as a team, we had the chance to share the evolution of the project since the kick-off weekend. We have shared new design mockups, wireframes for the app as well as two main prototypes, we have developed within this timeframe. One with display and microcontroller and the other one with phone an […]

Dear CHIC community,

We arrived at Milestone 3 a little behind our friends of the other teams since we made a big pivot after Milestone 2. However, we have now a project that motivate us and that gives plenty of interesting tasks for all members of our group. Our project now focuses on safety at the water’s edge. We introduced our object, that would be warning parents in case of dange […]

Hooray!
We got a neat concept under our hands now.
The lasts weeks, we had grown more and more concerned by the complex nature of the hospital environment. And even more preoccupations arose when we had difficulties in finding all the medical advice we were needing.

We needed to get out of that tight corner!

What was our project about after all?
One of the main issues we got passionate ab […]

This week we applied the so called “get out of the building approach” mentioned by Steve Blank in his article about positive outcomes of applying the Lean method.

“You create opportunities by asking for them” – Shakti Gawain

Like the above maxim states, sometimes you have to go […]

Dear Chic,

This week was a meaningful week, because we made our final decision on our project. On Tuesday, we had our regular meeting. Alex and Victor demonstrated the results of the market research in “safety in water” field as well as the innovative ideas of the product functions. We were all excited for their good news. Thomas and I gave the suggestions for the feasibility and possible imple […]

Hi everyone,
We went yesterday to the Espace Musical. For most of us it was our first introduction to the solfege and rythmic world. This experience made us realise what children does feel when they’re learning music. We learned how to read some notes on a partition, how to play in rhythm and now we’re more than ever ready to move forward and implement some exercises on our prototype.

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Hello followers, what a week we just had !
The semester’s first deadlines, the CHIC meetings and even an unexpected March snowstorm.

As mentioned in the previous post, the semester is officially on right now and our CHIC s […]

During the second milestone, we discussed and debated a lot about the idea of a portable turbine and decided to expand the range of our investigation while still remaining in the theme of water. As a another approach of the turbine, which was overall quite liked, we decided to contact some hydroelectric companies to ask them if they would […]

Hi everyone!

Last week, we needed some rest after MS2 to rethink everything we’d been told. All the feedback was very useful, but we felt a bit pushed around and insecure about the environment we chose for our smart teddy. After a few days and some much needed sleep catchup, we met again and decided to go for it. The hospital is an environment that makes sense to us, and we have a good collabor […]

While reflecting about the best way to organize blocking behaviors of our product, I tried to categorize sources of distractions. I came up with this classification which is now helping us to reason about the features of our product and compare competitors.

Active triggers are sudden changes, crafted to get your attenti […]

Hi everyone !
We hope that getting back to school was as much fun for you than it was for us!
This week after MS2, we took a break from CHIC in order to take a step back and digest everything we learned.
These two days of workshops with the teams from other cities were extremely rewarding for us as it enabled us to fully realize the work we’ve done since the start of this adventure! It was a gr […]

Hello everyone !

The beginning of the project is finally launched !

Team Fribourg has eventually changed its name : CORE. You probably wonder what it means. Well, it’s the acronym for Choose, Order, Retrieve & Eat.

We have met today essentially to talk about the material we have to use for the lunchbox. Indeed we have to be very careful about which one we choose so it is safe for peop […]

Dear CHIC Community,

Team Fribourg was very pleased to meet all of you during this weekend !

All the expertise that was here helped us very much. We had a lot of different feedbacks & we sometimes got punched in the face. But everything that was said helped us to question & re-evaluate the things we thought were acquired. We then took a step further & realized we had to change ou […]

Chill, take it easy and relax… It is the last weekend before the beginning of the semester …

Well, that was not really our plan, since a China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC) deserves to be prepared! As the rest of the students part of this adventure, our team dedicated this weekend to synthesize the important tasks that will be following.

The first step of this weekend was to show the c […]