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time to say goodbye

ShuQi
August 1, 2017

Our days in China are counted and soon we will finish CHIP. Axel, Adrien and Loïc will travel around in China and Julia and Tabea will go back to Switzerland. [...]

27-28 July: work on prototype and visit PCB factory

ShuQi
July 29, 2017

Thursday started early for some and later for others. The groups worked in different places on different tasks. The designers and most business people worked mostly at the hotel and [...]

our PCB adventure

ShuQi
July 29, 2017

ShuQi is advancing despite all struggle. Initially the PCB posed a lot of issues: the stencil was had missing holes, so the soldering paste could not be applied for one [...]

time flies

ShuQi
July 27, 2017

It is incredible how fast time goes by. One week in Hong Kong has already passed. The lovely tramways on the island, the narrow roads of central, the markets of Mong Kok [...]

the final spurt

ShuQi
June 15, 2017

Hello there, The project is advancing and we can see our ShuQi become more and more tangible. For the milestone we had a fast and simple 3d print, but this [...]

our PCB has arrived!

ShuQi
June 6, 2017

Today is a good day, because our PCB has arrived! Axel has worked diligently to order it as soon as possible, in order to proceed with the tests. ShuQi is [...]

Milestone ahead

ShuQi
May 30, 2017

Hello everyone! Our join work ShuQi is showing tangible results - every day there are improvements in the technical and design fields. Loic has created the 3D Model of our [...]

Discussion about the PCB Design

ShuQi
May 23, 2017

The engineers proudly presented with a real size 3D print of the PCB. It is an oval form which fits perfectly into the case of our lovely bird.With this mock-up we discussed [...]

the first prototype is within reach

ShuQi
May 12, 2017

Hello! This week we have started working on our first prototype. We’ve finished the last tests of feasibility and the result are mostly positive.  We have already explained in this [...]

a trip to the state of Shu in the mountains Qi

ShuQi
April 15, 2017

On our journey, we have found a new team member: ShuQi. She has already been an observer last week, and joined us this Friday. The ingredients were a plate of [...]

the path from milestone 1 to milestone 2

ShuQi
April 4, 2017

This week we presented our work we have done so far. There were many things to say and that is why the presentation got longer and longer. Sorry for that. [...]

Moving on – moving quickly

ShuQi
March 27, 2017

The one and a half hour meeting we had scheduled this week ahead of our milestone, was not long enough to discuss all the work each one has done. The [...]

Get into the customer’s brain

ShuQi
March 19, 2017

In the last weeks the interaction design (Julia) and business (Tabea) tried to get into our future consumer’s brain to understand what they think and feel. This is of great [...]

Today on the menu: TechTalk

ShuQi
March 12, 2017

Last week we spoke about the RFID technology. This week we are explaining the process more in detail. There are different types of RFID technologies. Each one uses different frequencies [...]

We keep moving

ShuQi
March 5, 2017

This week, we began with a feed back about the kick-off. After the conversation we agreed to explore different scenarios/ situation in which our object will be useful. In the [...]

Kick-off

ShuQi
February 20, 2017

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 [...]

may our journey begin

ShuQi
December 22, 2016

Hi there. 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 [...]