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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 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 [...]
This morning we went to Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP). This non-profit entity, created in 2001 by the Hong-Kong government, tends to boost the innovation in order [...]
We want to briefly share with you the evolution of our project after the first week of our China trip that has been spent in Hong Kong, as it can [...]
Today was D-day: we were finally flying to Hong-Kong! At 8am, we had a last workshop at EPFL, to practice our pitching skills, and learn more about the schedule of [...]
For several weeks, the waterproofing of our device was a big problem. The last test in the Hydraulic Machines Lab (HML) was not successful at all and we made our PCB [...]
At the end of this week, we finally managed to implement the most important functionalities of our microcontroller, which was a huge relief! Now we are able to automatically log [...]
This week we have finally (and fortunately) met M. Farhat, a fluid mechanics teacher at EPFL. It turned out that EPFL has many high-end facilities allowing to simulate high pressurized [...]
All the components have arrived and also the produced PCB is ready... What does that mean? Start soldering! With a little instruction from our super-assistant Gilbert, Tobia spent the morning [...]
In the last weeks the whole team brainstormed in order to find a name for our product that could represent it and at the same time represent the team's [...]
After a well earned week of relax (at least on paper) and a lot of eating (easter bunnies and co.), our team is back to work. Each one of us is [...]
The past two weeks were essentially dedicated to the electronic part of the device. The first version of the PCB has been designed and its production was launched. We hope we [...]
This week was a relatively calm week, principally dedicated to "branding". We have arrived at a point where our product, the data logger, is slowly becoming tangible and we have [...]
G3ID is a large show room of innovative and humanitarian companies and associations. We were invited there to present our project and the challenges we are facing. In the conference [...]
We are in the 5th week, we have now a first sketch of an application interface, in order to manage the loggers and get the data. We learned how to [...]
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 [...]
This is the 4th week. Following the turnaround we got last week, we thought of different concepts and configurations for our device: should it be molded? should it be encased [...]
At the beginning of last week, an important meeting with an hydrogeologist of the ICRC led us to change dramatically our former specifications. What the ICRC really wants is a [...]
Second and intensive week for our team. Our main problem for visualizing our ideas was that we do not have a water hand pump. This is why Yohanna and Elise [...]
This week, we mainly brainstormed the different solutions we could implement for the different parts of our device. It is actually composed of three main parts: the communication module, the [...]
In the last weeks and months we worked intensively on understanding and developing our problem, through our contact person inside the ICRC and contacts to other people in different domains (geological, [...]
On October 29th and 30th the kick-off day of CHIC, also known as the Ideation week-end was held. Groups were formed around different themes. Because we feared that designing a [...]
