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Yesterday, we went to HKDI, the Hong Kong Design Institute for a SWIFT session. There, we matched with local students with whom we designed a new product within the day. The idea was to start from Hong Kong news articles and imagine a scenario were he presented issue was interpolated positively or negatively. From there, we created a new object that would answer a need in such scena […]

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After yesterday’s amazing workshop at HKDI, today, we went to visit LSCM, a research center in Hong Kong that is focusing on IoT, robotics, AI, and other. The visit was great, especially the demos that they showed us about their robotic systems. Moreover, we had interesting insights about Hong Kong’s long-term strategy. Did you know that they are investing a lot into the attraction […]

Today, we visited “Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre” in Hong Kong. https://www.lscm.hk/eng/

This non-profit organization is active in technological research. It works closely with universities and companies in Hong Kong. We had the opportunity to discover and try some of their connected objects that are still in the research phase. </sp […]

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Today we had a special day at HK Design Institute where all teams were split in different new teams. Each team was composed of 1 engineer, 1 business, 1 designer and 1 HK product or architecture designer. The goal of the workshop was to find a solution about specific themes related to Hong Kong and given at the beginning of the day. We had the choice between different issues such as […]

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We arrived the 20th in HK and started experiencing the pace at which this city goes.

Buildings are tall, roads are narrow and taxis go fat. In this there are the people, which to our experience are really friendly and willing to help.

At the same time it is an intense period in the history in HK. There is a lot of unrest, on both sides of the spectrum. We can only observe, t […]

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MS7 done, and we managed to finish the prototype. We were a bit suspicious if we would have been able to do it, but in the end we made it!

We leave with lovely memories and interesting insights on the Shenzhen ecosystem.

Now it is time for Hong Kong, stay tuned!

Hugs,

Team Vukovi

On Sunday, we left Shenzhen after two intense and crazy weeks!

Between the pitches, the companies’ visits, the workshop and just working on our prototype at x.Factory, the times flew so fast!

It was really two weeks full of learnings and discovery, and also stress to finish the prototype (plus repairing them when one PCB broke 30 minutes before our last milestone…)

So, on Saturday we left the […]

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Yesterday we finally succeeded to make our prototype, and precisely our screen buttons, work ! It was a big challenge for us, as we received our 3D prints in the morning, and as the electronic part was not responding. So, we had only few hours to assembly everything.

Then, the MS7 !

We prensented our business model, our engineering changes and our key learnings of Shenzhen th […]

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Yesterday it was our last day in Shenzhen and we had the possibility to visit two important companies: Huawei and Oppo. Such a great experience!

After two weeks our hard work, Heptabox is leaving Shenzhen with a f […]

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This morning was very special for the Zhu-Zhu team. Two of us went to Huawei’s new campus in Shenzhen. And as you can see, we couldn’t expect to see a castle from Germany. Huawei needed a new campus for their employees and decided to recreate iconic European cities to provide working space. Small cities were build all around the campus, you can eat at Paris in […]

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These last days have been crazy intense! How easy is it to find a classroom of Chinese kids from 6-12 years in the middle of the summer? I tell you… it can be hard! But after contacting many people and thanks to China magic, we manage to find an English morning class.

We were highly excited to observe the reaction of the kids but well… nothing went as planned.

First, th […]

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Yesterday for the first time, we assembled two lamps completely, and after connecting them, we could see the animation when they exchange the movement data.

Indeed, the last time we assembled a lamp, we only put a test program to check the functionality.

So, we have an amplitude and speed variation that fluctuates depending on the intensity of movement. As for the light int […]

It has been more than a week since we arrived in China and I must say that we see the other team members everyday mostly all day long (often at night as well).

Since now we had a team meeting once a week and sometimes saw each other once or twice a week to work on prototyping. So spending so much time together was something new we have to deal with. I must say it is not always easy but we all t […]

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This week has been very intense for everyone !

Our dear business explored the differents places where we thought we may sell the product. However, in china, neither pharmacy or hospital sell these products, but we found after disscussions with the Chineses, which way is the more relevant. Also today, Ilaria is meeting sportsmen and women to introduce them the product and get feedback […]

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When knowing who to ask, so many things are doable in Shenzhen!

This morning together, Tomas and Ethan found a place at 10:00 where to weld the hinges to the box and repair a couple of details. By 12:00 it was done

The same day we wanted to do powder coating. Even though it looked impossible we managed to get the contact of a company thanks to Vivi’s help at 14:00. At 16:00 […]

Since we arrived in China, we observed that no one is using crutches in the street. Weird right ? Because in Switzerland we could see someone at least three times a day…

Meeting Chinese designers from Artop we had the opportunity to discuss our product with them and got very interesting insight. None of them had ever heard of partial weight bearing. They knew about crutches b […]

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Please saw the completely new design of HEPTABOX!

A full designed prototype made in China with a team of designer. The new prototype is almost ready to be tested.

Special thanks to François and Amand […]

Yesterday, we visited the PCB factory in the surroundings of Shenzhen.

And thanks to that, I finally understood what the engineers in our team were working on and talked about.

From CNC machine cutting cooper to the quality control check and the chemicals baths and fabrication steps, we saw it all.

But, being out of the craziness of the Shenzhen’s city center and its maker spaces everywhere, […]

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With the help of Céleste, our Chinese correspondent student here in Shenzhen, Camille managed to get great insights from her interview in Shenzhen Six People Hospital. It would greatly help us to brought our product on the market!

Most of the team went to visit the PCB factory and everyone were amazed by it, regardless their knowledge about it.

Our second prototype is on t […]

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Today was Assembling day for team Zhu-Zhu ! We received the new 3D printed pieces for our plant made with a more resistant material called ABS instead of PLA. This change gives more flexibility and more resistance to the stems. Thanks to the Shenzen eco-system we discovered the really efficient industries that are specialized with those methods. We just stitch it to the fabric […]