You know the feeling when you start to dig into a project and what once seemed too big to handle becomes reasonable? Well, this is not how I feel now.
Last week for me was about creating personas – characters that we keep in mind while designing. This way each interaction already falls into some context and we can see further than the next screen, so it is a real […]

This week, we mainly brainstormed the different solutions we could implement for the different parts of our device. It is actually composed of three main parts:

• the communication module,
• the energy module and […]

So here we are, one week passed since kick-off. Time really flies pretty quick and you only realize it when you reach the deadlines.

Anyway, we used that time pretty efficiently. Since we now have a clearer view on the product we want to create we were able to go forward on different points :

In the business perspective we made a first draft of the business model canvas. It […]

After the kick off day of last Sunday, we feel like the project has now really begun. Even if the whole process of research we did the last semester was really interesting, we are now happy to start the most concrete stage of the project, which is the development of our connected device.

To understand better what are the different segments of customers for our device, we did an online questionn […]

Hi Everyone!

Last Staturday we had our kick-off meeting of CHIC program in Lausanne. It is so great to see you again and we feel very excited to start the project. 😀

As put in the previous blog, our goal is to build a air pollution detection device to help people to detect the pollution level around them and offer them some air filtering function. During the meeting day, we discussed the Mi […]

Hey everybody!

Let’s talk about our Kick-Off meeting on Saturday

We all arrived on time 🙂 on Saturday morning to our one day Kick-Off meeting at EPFL in Lausanne.

During the morning session we looked at different tools we can use which will hopefully make our life easier while working in our 7 men (and women) group. After a good and solid lunch we finally got to work in our groups to […]

Today was Kickoff Day, the first time we gather to actually work on our product. We spent the morning on a presentation on startups, iterations and an intro to manufacturing. We then proceeded to setup Trello, which will be our tool of choice to manage this project.

In the afternoon, we moved on to define what would be our Minimum Viable Product (MVP), the minimum set of functions that our prod […]

In a very informative one day session on February 18, we got ready to get the project going. During the last months, we were already working on some prototypes and the engineers have already developed a functioning system. We also have some first interface screenshots of the application, which is to further develop and a proposition of the product design. All of these are subject to constant chang […]

In the last weeks and months we worked intensively on understanding and developing our problem, through our contact person inside the ICRC and contacts to other […]

We are proud to present you our first cardboard mock-up ! Yes it’s hard to believe but it’s not working yet…

Let’s be serious for a bit, we spent the day discussing our idea and try to define what we want it to do exactly. We defined the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) with this sentence :

“Create a playful, clean and well designed composter that fits kitchens of all sizes and pr […]

So here we are ! Enjoying a nice and quiet Sunday in the sun !

We started off by simplifying our product a little more, setting our priorities and staying realistic. To sum up our goal: we want to create a device that is going to guide and reassure autistic kids in their daily lives, by showing them the list of events of the day. We want to try and keep it as portable as possible. We […]

Ciao a tutti!

It took us a long time and a lot of brainstorming and discussion with our supervisors and relevant experts to reach this final project idea.

Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. It occurs when the air contains harmful amount of gases, dust, f […]

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Our team first met in the train from Geneva to Renens, where the CHIC ideation weekend took place. After these 42min, we were fully convinced of the competence of each team member and excited to work together on a project. So let me introduce the ones that were chosen to represent the HES-SO in Geneva. Adrien and Axel (HEPIA) are responsible to make the device work, Julia and Loïc (H […]

Hey everybody and welcome to our first Blog-Post.

The CHIC-Project has officially started with the ideation weekend in November!
Based on the wide range of information we gained during this two days we now fixed our idea.
We are aiming to build a connected Piggy bank for kids,
which will be defined more precisely in the following weeks and months.
We presented this idea in […]

Hi everyone, Team Wellness reporting in! What a crazy time for all of us: everyone has a ton to do for class and CHIC doesn’t help. Anyway, maybe we should start by introducing ourselves, shall we? On the engineering side, we have Adrien (mechanical engineering) and myself (microengineering). They will have to think hard to implement solutions to all the technical challenges the team will face. […]