Today, thanks to the late start, we had the chance to get our well deserved sleep after the long program of yesterday. It felt so good! And we were all looking forward to the last company visits of CHIC […]

First visit of the day, Huawei.
We met at the lobby at 7:30 to take the bus to the Huawei manufacture.

There, we have been welcomed in a fancy meeting room with free tea and coffe.

We had a […]

All teams worked hard last night (or early in the morning) to prepare the pitching session of the day, this one for investors-oriented people at the Science & Technology Park.

In the morning, we are given a […]

After a rich breakfast, we came back to SZOIL to continue the challenging humanitarian hackathon. The transfer in taxi made the whole day easier and we reached the place in great shape. We soon started to work o […]

Not all the teams were in their best shape after the late night of day 11 but this day was not one allowing procrastination. The amount of students dressed in pink soldering components proved that many students […]

All the PCBs (5 pieces) are mounted and 2 of them are working properly! The others are currently being tested. The day starts well and my team is happy :)! Everyone feels involved in the creation: the engineers […]

Today, we had a lot of work to do. All team members moved to Seeedstudio. Our priority is to succeed in boot loading PCB, which we didn’t manage yesterday.

The battery arrived yesterday evening. We have to […]

We started our day by moving to HAX, a american renowned hardware accelerator.

This company accelerate startups with a high market potential. At Shenzhen, HAX is focused on hardware projects fitting to t […]

Time is going so quickly and we did not noticed how Wednesday was over! Then my blogpost will cover 2 days.

Yesterday the work was efficient and quick. The quick market study in the morning showed me, that […]

Good afternoon people!
What have we been up to today? Well, a bunch of things actually! Lara and I started the day in a pretty stressful way since we had some trouble waking up this morning (I have to admit that […]

Yesterday Adrien tried to go to a bike shop to see the helmets sold and get insight about the market in Shenzen but unfortunately once arrived at the destination there was nothing.
The rest of team worked at […]

Hello again ! Twice in one day, how lucky are you?
So today we also split up the team, in 2 groups. Sorina and Link went to Seeed Studio to work on the PCBs and the software, Alexis, JB and Lara stayed at the […]

Today, we split our team into three main groups.

The first one made observations and interviews with workers from Seeedstudio. Before the lunchtime, we moved to their kitchen to speak with potential customers. […]

I have been walking around Shenzhen (well mostly around the hotel) in order to observe the behavior of the Chinese people regarding mailboxes and other topics related to our project.
So the main things I’m l […]

First of all, today was Lara’s birthday so it was gonna be a good day anyway!!!
What a busy day! The team actually split up to do some different things in order to be more efficient.
Since we checked the c […]

Some time in the morning were spent today to define the tasks and their priorities, in order to use our time in the best way.

We decided to split the tasks as following: I left the hotel to explore the market […]

Seeed Studio told us the missing components should arrive at 2pm, however to be sure, electrical engineers went to the Huaqiangbei market to buy some of them. It went well they were able to find all the necessary […]

This morning, our team split into three groups. One went to Huaqiangbei, one of the biggest electronics market in the world, to find some missing components such as the battery and some cables.They also took this […]

Finally, the first day of work is here, everyone is very excited to start implementing their prototypes. But first things first: we need a lot of strength to get through this day. The hotel buffet is here to […]

Hibachi team had arrived at Hong-Kong last week. It was intense! We pitched almost every day in front of different audiences: investors, companies, entrepreneurs, makers, students and other people.

Our […]