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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 [...]
Dear CHIC colleagues The last few weeks have been a real push for the CORE team. Indeed we finally created a functional prototype and tested it with a potential customer. [...]
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 [...]
Quite some time had gone by since we last met with the CHIC 2017-2018 teams. One could think that the Xmas vacation, exams and holidays (for some...) could have distracted [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
Hello, hello, hello! as some of you may already know, this edition of CHIC comes with some newness: In addition to the four existing teams with students from EPFL, ecal [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to the rainy weather this weekend, the project had jumped on a new level! Ludovico and Israel did an amazing job :) They are now putting everything together: low [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It's Christmas! The parcel containing the first order of electronic components arrived this week. The playground is open! We will stay close to you, to share the first issues. While [...]
While waiting impatiently for the parcel containing our first component's order, the team makes use of time to brainstorm on the possible features Tikku drumsticks could carry. Our goal is [...]
Week 2 is now over and it was a productive one ! Our team has mainly been discussing the different possibilities to power our device: dynamo, solar panel, or lithium [...]
Here we are: CHIC 2016 Edition has been launched and we are proud being part of it! Since the Ideation weekend we have been working and brainstorming a lot on [...]
Welcome to the page of our Okeep project, aimed at improving security for bikes. With the beginning of the new semester comes the real start of our project. Until now, [...]
