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Today we really experienced the «Shenzhen speed».
Having finished the final mechanical drawings in the wee hours of the morning, we were late; but this city allowed us to catch up. In the morning we contacted 15 suppliers, by noon we were in a car to a factory, by 20 we had all our metal parts. All bent and riveted!

Tomorrow we can finish welding the door to the hinges, and […]

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I am pretty proud to say that our prototypes’ connection and communication have been tested and approved. Even if small problems remain, we can say that we have a functional prototype of communication between the lamps.

Otherwise, our business teammate has determined a cost of production; from witch follows the breaking point of sales (which means the number of sales where the […]

After arriving in China and getting some feedback about our device, our mechanical engineer is working hard with some design experts that are helping us improving the shape of our connected pill dispenser.

It finally has been decided to change the positioning of the pill box dispenser, by placing it into the base horizontally. This solution would reduce the volume of the device especially in the […]

This week, I’ve learnt more than I though I would before coming here.

I met new people from all over the world, ready to share their knowledge.
Pitchin in front of HAX or at the Hardware Massive event was a great experience. It gave me the opportunity to get some feedbacks
that really helped us, we even made some changes in our pitch thanks to them […]

L’occasion nous a été donnée de visiter les locaux de Seeed , une entreprise qui a fini de se faire un nom dans le domaine du prototypage Electronique et de l’ hardware IOT. Nous avons pu voir leur processus d’assemblage et les différentes machines qui la constitue. (Pick and plce , SMT Stencil, Reflow  , … ) . Nous avons également voir un aperçu des procédures et des bancs utilisés pou […]

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The adventure in China has started!

Already a week that we are working together. Time goes so fast when you are involved by your project.

Our engineers are working hard to finalize and test the electronical part to make things correctly work.

On his side, our designer is developing the knee brace in collaboration with K-Tech. He has found by himself this company from Switzerlan […]

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Here are some news after a well deserved chilly Sunday! We had two occasions to pitch on Friday, thefirst one at HAX with Maxim, and the second one at Hardware Massive with Morgane, and both were absolutely fantastic! We took note of the few comments, in order to adapt the presentation.

Those were great opportunities to meet people who had developped their business or idea in Chi […]

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After a long trip to Shenzhen and the introduction of the x.factory team, we continued working on our prototype. We first ch […]

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Yesterday we visited Artop Group, a well-established firm mainly active in design innovation.

After learning about the company and visiting their showroom, we had a great workshop with some of their brilliant industrial designers. First, we collaborate in a group on our project, then worked on a problematic presented by Artop’s employees.

They had read about our project an […]

It’s been a few days now that we arrived at Shenzhen and it’s now time to share it with you, dear reader !

Our working week started on wednesday by trying to find our hand quarter at xFactory. The journey was long, indeed with the amazing growth of the city so many things changed since last time leaving our guide a bit lost ! But we finally reached our destination and discovered our working place […]

The amazing thing of Shenzhen is the quantity of suppliers present in one city. From LED, to PCB and injected plastic here you can find everything.

Yesterday we revisited again Huaqianbei, the electronic market district.
We bought different parts for our product and already started exploring solar panels.
We also took the opportunity to do some personal shopping 😉

Today half of the team […]

We visited many places this week in Shenzhen but the one which caught our eye was the: Huaqiangbei Electronics Market. It is the largest electronics market in the world and you can find any kind of electronics for a cheap price (provided you order it in bulk!).

It also gave us an insight as to how Shenzhen has developed its reputation in the world’s best “hardware startup” ecosystem.

We also pit […]

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After nearly one week in Shenzhen, China, our project is evolving in a great way. We have sourced a lot of new components about which we did not know, and we have talked to local enterprises about the cost of manufacturing directly in China and about the different costs, benefits and challenges that this implies.

The whole team kept working hard on a possible future of CARING and a […]

When we arrived in Huaqiangbei, the engineers of our team could not believe what they saw.

It felt like Christmas. You can find every imaginable piece of electronic for a cheap price !

We spent almost 2 hours only in the SEG Electronics Market.

It was a great experience and we better understand why so many people come to Shenzhen to build prototypes.

We have arrived in Shenzhen! We are really excited to be able to work at x.factory.

We were lucky to meet Kyle, a senior student as mechanical engineer in Southern University of Science and Technology.
We had a lot of questions for him, either about our prototype or even about Chinese culture. Kyle is very resourceful and we learned a lot from him (even to hold our chopsticks to eat).

Today we a […]

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The Kneet team is well arrived in China. A lot of work has already been accomplished at the x.factory with the help of the wonderful Seeed Studio team. The app is slowly but surely taking shape, and we soon will be able to see a live preview of an exercise accomplished with the Kneet device.

Yesterday, some of us visited K-Tek, a 3D knitting company around Dongguan, 150km of Sh […]

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Between skyscrapers and construction sites, we are now at x.factory, a maker space in Shenzhen.

What better place to prototype our product than the most rapidly growing city in the world?

In addition to our prototype, we are also working on our pitches, with all the media necessary for it. Tomorrow we start big with pitching at HAX!

Want to hear how it goes?

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Hello everyone!
We are ready to go to China! Our prototype is functional and we are very happy about it! We are looking forward to improving it in China.

The whole team is really happy to have the opportunity to discover Shenzen and Hong Kong. All we have to do now is put our prototype in our luggage!

See you soon for new adventures!

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It’s time to make a second version of the prototype.

Here is the PCB V.2 with modifications and adaptations to the final product.

One week until our MS6!! And we are looking forward to finalizing the implementation between […]

After the 17th week, we could finally print our first parts.
There are only three weeks left but we are confident to have a working prototype with the hard work from our […]