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Sprint UI/UX
Aimo
June 10, 2016

During this sprint I implemented the design made by Lara Defayes, the media and interaction designer of the team. As you can see the UI design has rather well evolved. [caption [...]

Tikku first game
Tikku
June 7, 2016

We are back to present you our first game, developed by the engineering team! It's concept is similar to Guitar Hero game, but better adapted to a mobile game and [...]

Last milestone – done!
Tikku
May 28, 2016

Here we are! The last milestone has been passed and we are going towards the China trip! Lot of work is still remaining. The pricing and costing aspects still need [...]

Ta(l)king control
Hibachi
May 26, 2016

As the semester reaches to its end, the Hibachi is finally taking shape. After though some trouble with the experiment, it's finally solved! (Until the next problem) In contrary to [...]

Week 14 – Final week, final milestone
Okeep
May 24, 2016

This is it, we are heading to the final milestone ! The journey seems to end but it is in fact just beginning… We almost have a prototype for the [...]

A functionnal communication flow
Hibachi
May 20, 2016

Let's talk software and firmware, or how to make the link between them! As annonced during our last presentation, we chosed to use Bluetooth Low Energy or Bluetooth Smarth to [...]

Week 11- Almost there !
Okeep
May 17, 2016

This is the last run before the final milestone next week ! An initial version of the electronics is here. So far one mistake has been found and solved, the [...]

Sticks Design
Tikku
May 8, 2016

One of the biggest parts of the work for the second milestone was the design of the sticks performed by Adrian. He has been working on colors and shapes according [...]

About electronics…
Aimo
May 7, 2016

Drumroll.... Our Aimo connected device starts to take shape in terms of electronics as well. We designed the first testing board using Altium Designer and we sent it to fabrication [...]

Milestone 2: Done!
Hibachi
May 4, 2016

Last week, we were excited to present our progression to the CHIC Jury and to the rest of the audience. In only 15 minutes, we have to present one month of hard [...]

Positioning and gaming environment
Tikku
May 2, 2016

Difficult to believe, that only one milestone is left before going to China! We are so excited to be there although few time is left now to finish the work [...]

Week 10 – Positioning
Okeep
May 1, 2016

Milestone 2 went well but we are waiting for the feedbacks. We will keep you updated about that next week ! About the positioning here is where OKeep would be: [...]

Milestone 2 behind!
Aimo
May 1, 2016

Time is passing by so fast! Only one milestone left before we go to China! Let's look at what has been done on the business side during the last month. [...]

CHIC 2016 – 2nd milestone
Presentation
April 30, 2016

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 [...]

Hibachi is getting ready for MS2
Hibachi
April 28, 2016

The second milestone presentation is this Friday and Hibachi team is getting ready for this important day. Weekly meeting at ecal with the Hibachi team The last few details have [...]

A new start with Hibachi
Hibachi
April 25, 2016

Since we started CHIC, my team and I all agreed on one common thing: Heaböx is not the name we have dreamt about to represent our lunchbox. So after brainstorming a [...]

Let’s talk software and firmware
Aimo
April 25, 2016

This awesome adventure is the opportunity for me to update my mobile app skills. A lot of new things have appeared and among them: Swift. The brand new language from Apple [...]

Tikku’s updates
Tikku
April 24, 2016

As the project starts to materialize into PCB's, foam prototypes, software design and scripts our team is facing challenges and limits of the ideas we have imagined. The decisions must [...]

Big shift !
Okeep
April 20, 2016

Yes it is a big shift for Okeep ! We had this meeting with our supervisors yesterday and their good advice made us take a big turn ! We are [...]

A word from our user experience designer
Aimo
April 19, 2016

Here comes the time to design the communication around Aimo. But before we begin, why Aimo? What does this name even mean? Our name comes from a french saint called [...]

Week 8
Tikku
April 18, 2016

The feedback for the first milestone is there, so this week is gonna be very important in the advancement of the project. A lot of ideas was proposed by the [...]

Week 8 – Be challenged and keep going !
Okeep
April 18, 2016

  We met this week and talked about the screen, LED, TFT ? Color or monochrome ? We encountered more issues, what about resistance (when falling), waterproof, etc… Many questions [...]

Tikku refueled
Tikku
April 16, 2016

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 [...]

A small step closer to our first prototype !
Hibachi
April 11, 2016

One of our most important components is arrived! With the Silicone Rubber heater, we are now able to test our heating system. To check quickly the heating behaviour of the [...]

Week 7
Okeep
April 10, 2016

For a week holidays are over, we got back to work and from now, we won't change the core function of our product. It consists in 4 "parts"; 2 patches [...]

Here we are!
Aimo
April 7, 2016

After this long period of silence, I'm glad to announce you that the new version of Aimo is ready and the 3D printing is on-going ! The previous one helped [...]

First milestone: Survived
Hibachi
April 3, 2016

Last week was a really excited and intense week. We had our first milestone and so presented our work to the jury, to the professors and to the other teams. It was a [...]

Milestone 1 behind!
Aimo
March 29, 2016

We hope everyone had a great Easter! We are happy to have survived the first milestone! For this step, which took place last Friday, we basically needed to present in [...]

CHIC 2016 – 1st milestone
Presentation
March 24, 2016

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 [...]

From the industrial designer point of view
Aimo
March 23, 2016

How do I design a connected mailbox locker? First of all, I need to understand perfectly the aim of the object that I want to design. This is really important! [...]

Getting out of the Building
Hibachi
March 22, 2016

Last weeks, after having mapped our assumptions regarding our early adopters customers, we have decided to verify our hypothesis by meeting some of them face-to-face and by doing online surveys. [...]

Sketches and Design
Tikku
March 22, 2016

Some quick sketches and renderings, trying to find a shape for Tikku. The main challenge is finding a shape that is inspired from drum stick while still being different enough [...]

Week 5 – Soon 1st milestone
Okeep
March 22, 2016

On Thursday we have the 1st milestone, meaning that we would present the progress of OKeep. The journey so far is very exciting but not so easy ! Here are [...]

Vita in motu!
Tikku
March 18, 2016

It is time to talk about the "dark" engineering side of Tikku... Last Thursday the development kits arrived and Szabi - the electrical engineer started to code some of the [...]

A hard day’s work
Hibachi
March 17, 2016

Today was a working day for the Heaböx team. Most of us went to the maker space in the EPFL/ECAL lab at some point during the day, and even though [...]

Engineering, prototyping, components…
Aimo
March 16, 2016

In parallel with mechanics, our engineering team is also working on the development of the firmware and electronics, as we want to have a working prototype by the end of [...]

Fast, simple and cheap experiments
Hibachi
March 15, 2016

In a first stage, we have decided to decrease our uncertainty as fast as possible by making small and quick bets, instead of investing time and efforts into scenarios' assumptions. [...]

Week 4 – Waze & more…
Okeep
March 15, 2016

The second version of the survey is almost done ! We are now trying to dertermine the price and verify if people are ok with dynamos. More interviews are in [...]