General

Edition

CHIC 2016 Kick-off
February 21, 2016

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 [...]

Okeep’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Okeep
February 17, 2016

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 [...]

4 teams selected for CHIC 2016 !
Presentation
November 19, 2015

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 [...]

CHIC 2016: THE selection!
October 18, 2015

And.... we have 6 selected projects. After intense discussions between the organisers and a selection of projects with high potential time has come for the CHIC "mercato". The 6 project [...]

CHIC 2016 IWE D2: Ideation
October 18, 2015

After a long day of learning, students are there Sunday morning ahead of time (!) to start with the ideation part. The session kicks off with Alex and a stellar [...]

CHIC 2016 IWE D1: Learning time
October 18, 2015

After the stellar launch at the EPFL+ECAL Lab, participants to the CHIC 2016 ideation week-end start a long day of learning punctuated by a couple of practical exercises. On the [...]

CHIC 2016 has started !
October 16, 2015

The second edition of the China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC) got off on the right foot in the inspiring facilities of the EPFL+ECAL Lab. A group of highly motivated students [...]

CHIC 2015: DemoDays @ ecal and @ EPFL
Presentation
September 10, 2015

Have you been following the first edition of the China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC)? Are you curious to see what an interdisciplinary group of students from EPFL, ecal and UNIL can [...]

CHIC 2015 – Presentations @ 2nd milestone
Dory, Fimi, Presentation, Vesta
May 1, 2015

May 1 The 2nd milestone of CHIC was held on labour day! The 3 teams presented their progress in front of their colleagues and experts from the different schools involved [...]

CHIC 2015 – Announcement of 2nd milestone
April 23, 2015

The second CHIC milestone will be held on May 1st (from noon to 2PM) at EPFL (CM 1100). Stay tuned to discover how the three teams have progressed on their [...]

CHIC 2015 – 1st milestone
Dory, Fimi, Presentation, Vesta
March 13, 2015

March 13 Today we had the first reunion of all the teams since the kick-off week-end. Each team had 15 minutes to present the progress of their project, including the [...]

What would a nurse do?
February 24, 2015

After some interviews with nurses we now have a better understanding of what a baby needs and believe more than ever that our project can assist babies around the world in [...]

Today’s quote
February 15, 2015

"People don't want quarter inch drills, they want quarter inch holes". Ted Levitt

Eureka!
February 15, 2015

After quite some brainstorming and horse trading the participants to CHIC came up with 3 great projects: an intelligent baby bottle, a water environmental monitoring device and a device to [...]

CHIC 2015 is on the roll….
February 14, 2015

Participants to CHIC 2015 are learning the tricks of the trade by applying the value proposition canvas to the case of Airbnb.