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Here we are after the third milestone of last Friday. It was the last one before the trip to China and we now really feel like the departure is very close.

Let’s review the different aspects that have been discussed during the milestone:

To start with the identity, Thomas developed a logo for the brand. It is like the letters are playing with each other, giving a design […]

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During week 14, we managed to finish the PCB design of our device, and we are producing it in this week. We also did the product design according to the size of PCB and sensors.

Our business guy is trying to est […]

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Last Wednesday we had our Milestone 2 presentation. This time we managed to finish your explanations in the given 15 min. to 20 min. time frame.

Once again, we had some really valuable feedbacks. One of the main concerns of our audience is the device orientation. Due to the multiple semester and bachelor thesis which are connected to our device (and the whole project CHIC) our p […]

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Short post today, just to let you know how much we’ve done since last post and how we’re getting ready for the final milestone before heading to China!

Rihab is working with the team in order to make a cost estimation of Trobak. This is way harder than expected. Since we don’t have all the production details, we have to make some approximation on the materials we’re gonna use. […]

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Our join work ShuQi is showing tangible results – every day there are improvements in the technical and design fields.

Loic has created the 3D Model of our lovely bird and the 3D impression should be ready for milestone 3.

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Last night, we finally assembled the first prototype of Ilanga’s electronics. I was a little bit worried as it was only my second time doing this, but my friend Salah kindly offered his help. He shown us how to organize our work, by dividing the assembly in small steps that could be done without any risks of confusion b […]

During this week we talked about the design of the PCB. The engineers presented the first version of ShuQi’s electronic card. It is an oval form which fits easily into the case of our lovely bird.

The engineers proudly presented with a real size 3D print of the PCB. With this mock-up we discussed the interactive components like the button or the LEDs and their position. All team members raise […]

At the end of this week, we finally managed to implement the most important functionalities of our microcontroller, which was a huge relief! Now we are able to automatically log pressure samples for at least one year (a few lines of code need to be added to extend storage capacity to two years) and the device is ready to be read as well. However this is a proof of concept, we have been using a dev […]

After the second milestone meeting, we received some valuable suggestions from our instructors. Our next steps will be:

• Focus on the industrial design;
• BlueTooth communication between the device and the smartphone;

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This week we have finally (and fortunately) met M. Farhat, a fluid mechanics teacher at EPFL. It turned out that EPFL has many high-end facilities allowing to simulate high pressurized media – exactly what we need. M. Farhat was very interested in our project and allowed us to test the waterproofing of some samples. The results were encouraging, showing that basic preforms&caps seem to be wat […]

Today marks a big milestone for Ilanga: we ordered our first PCB! This may not sound like much, but for us it was quite stressful: once a board is made, it is extremely hard to change, if not impossible, if any mistake was made. We did several reviews of the board to make sure nothing was wrong, both in the schematic and on the layout. We needed to think about manufacturing: since we will use a re […]

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Nice logo isn’t it? After long discussions and iterations, Erika our designer created this logo so we can use it from now on to communicate on our product more easily.

What’s new since we last posted?
Well we met a team of biologists and researchers that work in a bio-engineering collaborative space called “Hackuarium”. We made a short presentation so we could introduce our p […]

Hi dear CHIC community

Last week we booked our flights to China. Therefore, there was an exuberant atmosphere as the trip finally got concrete.

Obviously, we had a lot more to do than just booking the trip. Milestone 2 is getting closer and we still have to work out some interdisciplinary issues.

Furthermore, we have to figure out how to secure pEggy in a way that nobody can withdraw mone […]

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This week we have started working on our first prototype.

We’ve finished the last tests of feasibility and the result are mostly positive.  We have already explained in this blog our test and the result of the RFID part. It’s our object […]

Last week, we made breakthroughs in UI and Software coordination. Our Software Engineer Khalil, UI designer Hélène and Business Manager Luca sat down to settle on the app’s format. They have had to meet constraints by Software to make a viable Database system, and had to think about what best is for the parents of autistic children based on our discussions with them. Hélène has since came up […]

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As said in the title of this post, we need to post on a more regular basis. We’ll work on it we promise !

So, what’s new since last time? A lot honestly… We reached milestone n°2 and the least we can say is that we’re not in advance! We lost some time due to some changes we made not only in the design and technology of our product but also on its main function. Our studies […]

All the components have arrived and also the produced PCB is ready… What does that mean? Start soldering!

With a little instruction from our super-assistant Gilbert, Tobia spent the morning soldering all the components onto the printed circuit board. This will allow him to perform the antenna matching – the NFC antenna has to be tuned to resonate at a given frequency in order to be able to co […]