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Congratulations to the winners of the Start Lausanne 2020 contest. Looking forward to the next step(s).
Third update (January 2023) To our regret, we are still not in a position to resume the CHIC program. We hope to be in a position to re-start the program [...]
Milestone 4 is often a particular moment. Pivoting is no longer really an option. The excitement of first engineering successes is replaced by the challenges of building hardware in a [...]
A bit more than one month has gone by since the last milestone and one can safely say that the 4 teams from EPFL-ECAL-UNIL have not remained idle. The 3rd [...]
A very busy evening for CHIC participants. We kicked-off with pitches from the 4 CHIC 2018-2019 teams in front of a jury of experts from industry (Peter Boehni, Daniel Brandenburger, [...]
Only a handful of days have gone by since the CHIC 2018-2019 kick-off. This time, teams gathered for one day to explore teamwork. On the agenda, leadership, decision-making, conflict management [...]
Exhausted from a very intensive week-end but very glad to have launched a new edition of CHIC full of promises and with very motivated participants. While the kick-off gave us [...]
Thanks to the support from the Canton de Vaud two students from ECAL's movie school joined us for the trip to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. A few words from Korlei Rochat [...]
There are times in life when you can ask "why bother?". The third and last prototyping milestone offered a great answer. All teams really made an impression in terms of [...]
Kudos to the 3 teams for having shown some major progress at the 2nd prototyping milestone. While there is still some pivoting in the air, one starts to get a [...]
Three teams, three projects and now three brands! The first prototyping milestone was the occasion to discover the progress made by the teams since the kick-off more than one month [...]
Read the full post by Clara Marc (EPFL/Mediacom) here. [caption id="attachment_4242" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Todoo team on EPFL's homepage[/caption]
Great turnout for the second and last CHIC 2016-2017 DemoDay, hosted for the second time by MassChallenge Switzerland at the Ateliers de Renens. The 4 teams (Ilanga, Trobak, Livelo and [...]
Great first milestone in Lausanne on December 1. The teams' job was to present their problem exploration both in the form of a report and of a live presentation, followed [...]
While only one week has gone by since the ideation week-end, the participants of the CHIC 2017-2018 edition are already back for a workshop on teamwork led by Prof. Jack [...]
3 teams have emerged from an ideation week-end packed with a lot of exercises and teamwork. Sunday started with a graphic jam warm-up (see below). It was followed by the [...]
The Minor STAS/CHIC 2017-2018 is now officially underway. Participants of the new edition met on Friday evening at the EPFL-ECAL Lab (thanks to Cédric, Marius and Nicolas for hosting us). [...]
Great turnout for CHIC's 2016-2017 first DemoDay at ECAL! The floor was given to the designers who, each in their own style, related their CHIC experience. Todoo told the audience about their [...]
Read the full post by Myriam Bango (HECCom/UNIL) here (in French).
In spite of all the work going on during the weeks, milestones are important moments in the CHIC process. They are a way to demonstrate the progress towards the development of [...]
Read the full post by Sarah Bourquenoud (EPFL/Mediacom) here. [caption id="attachment_3106" align="aligncenter" width="983"] Tikku team on EPFL's homepage[/caption]
The third edition of the China Hardware Innovation Camp got onto a great start thanks to the workshop on teams brilliantly organised and animated by Prof. Jacques Lanarès from the [...]
Thanks to the generous support of the Canton de Vaud (DGES), Maxime Descloux and Céline Dondénaz (from ecal's movie department) have followed one CHIC team during an entire edition of [...]
CHIC 2016 is almost over but you have one last chance (actually two…) to catch up with us and discover what the 4 teams have achieved during this second edition. [...]
Read the full post by Myriam Bango (UNIL/HEC) here.
Read the article published in Le Temps (June 30, 2016) here
The second milestone (April 28) gave us a chance to see the great work put in by the four teams over the past 5 weeks. All teams managed to cover [...]
Tikku is back after a long and pleasant vacation! We are refueled and ready to work harder! A break was all benefit, because we came up with new ideas and [...]
Really great presentations today by all the CHIC 2016 teams as part of the first milestone as well as great feedback from the supervisors who managed to drop by. A number [...]
All the teams gathered on Satruday at the EPFL+ecal Lab for the CHIC 2016 kick-off. We started by covering the (numerous) weekly deliverables and the 3 milestones scheduled during the [...]
Two books were added to the CHIC library. Both make good reading for budding hardware entrepreneurs!
You will soon find the team's weekly posts on their respective project pages (Aimo, Heaböx, Okeep and Tikku). Stay tuned...
The functional requisites for Okeep's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are the following: Core functions: Blinkers Use the smartphone's GPS to indicate the way Sensors: accelerometer and switch The device would [...]
Great tour in Shenzhen and Hong Kong with Pascal Marmier, swissnex China's hyper-dynamic CEO. 6 days packed with meetings, visits and discussions ! Happy to announce renewed commitment from our [...]
Two books were added to the CHIC library. Both make good reading for the Holiday Season!
If you are interested in hardware accelerators, then this talk is for you! Benjamin Joffe, partner at HAX, will be coming through EPFL on December 2. He will be giving [...]
A little more than 3 weeks have gone by since the ideation week-end. Just enough time for the 6 teams to "go out of the building" and test their initial [...]
Read the article published in Flash (EPFL's internal newspaper) here