General

Edition

A story of markets and pitches
ToyGether
July 13, 2018

For this second blog post we want to talk about Friday July 13. The morning was devoted to hard work at the x.factory, with teams either working on their pitches [...]

The First Pitch
FLUID
July 13, 2018

Today we had our first pitch in HAX which is the world's first and largest hardware accelerator. They reminded us that many other teams were doing the similar products. And [...]

China, here we are!!!
Flowlin
July 12, 2018

Day 0 and Day 1 We arrived in Shenzhen yesterday evening after a very tiring adventure. We all met on Monday morning at EPFL for an entire day of pitching [...]

let’s goo x.factory
ToyGether
July 12, 2018

For our first day in Shenzhen which is one of the biggest production centers in the world and the richest city in China with the CHIC team we are going [...]

First day at x.factory
CORE
July 12, 2018

Dear readers, Here's what happened on our first day in Shenzhen. We all woke up bright and early and had breakfast together which allowed us to learn more about each [...]

Ni Hao China !
ToyGether
July 11, 2018

Monday, 9 July 2018 meeting at 8:00 at EPFL. All five teams from Geneva, Fribourg and Lausanne were ready with their luggage and excited to finally start the adventure. Not [...]

ARRIVAL
FLUID
July 11, 2018

Hello CHIC community,   How have you been? We arrived yesterday night in Shenzhen! The trip was quite exhausting; it's not everyday that you can fly to the other side [...]

MS6 – Take-off day
CORE
July 11, 2018

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. [...]

MS5 – Some results!
CORE
June 18, 2018

Dear CHIC members, Last thursday we had our 5th Milestone where we were finally able to show the horizontality of our project. On the electronical side, the PCB was finally [...]

MS4 – Moving forward, at last
CORE
June 6, 2018

Dear CHIC members, What a ride it has been since the last milestone. At our last presentation, we finally had something to show for, and we have to say, it [...]

First part of the mission accomplished!
FLUID
June 4, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Last Thursday, we had our last milestone presentation in Switzerland! After seven months of hard work, and activities keeping our brains firing, we were lucky to have [...]

Let me introduce to you… Toygether !
ToyGether
June 2, 2018

What a journey we had! For the past seven months, our team has kept working and improving every single day. We started from late October by not knowing each other [...]

MS3 and next steps
CORE
June 1, 2018

Dear CHIC Community After presenting the latest iteration of the CORE system at the MS3 to our supervisors in Fribourg, we left with some very insightful feedbacks to improve the [...]

Why bother?
ecal, EPFL, Flowlin, FLUID, ToyGether, UNIL
June 1, 2018

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 [...]

准备，出发 ! ( Get ready, start ! )
ToyGether
May 26, 2018

The final race that will bring all of us in Shenzhen has officially begun, and trust me it will be messy! While the semester is about to be over to [...]

Almost reaching the finishing line
FLUID
May 25, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Brace yourselves for the upcoming milestone, for our product is becoming real. Indeed, the final milestone of the semester before leaving to Shenzhen is next Thursday's presentation. [...]

Convergence towards a shared common goal
Flowlin
May 21, 2018

Dear CHIC Community Our trip to China is getting closer and we have to get some major pending work done. Berk is currently working on the final touch of our [...]

Hi! Final milestone!
FLUID
May 21, 2018

We had our meeting last week on Monday. It was the second meeting after last milestone. But it was also only two weeks before the final milestone. Now the proximity [...]

Soft stuff
ToyGether
May 18, 2018

  Hi everyone! We've been a bit late on the blog updates, but we've been super busy with our electronics, design and more! We presented our first soft prototype at [...]

Taking shape
FLUID
May 13, 2018

Hello CHIC community,   How have you been? On our part, we are working hard! The last week we were able to make quite some progress on the project. We [...]

Do Not Disturb While Focusing
Flowlin
May 12, 2018

Dear CHIC community! In order to move forward more quickly, we’ve decided to start focusing less on getting feedback from users of our early prototypes, but to start more concretely [...]

Milestone 4
Flowlin
May 6, 2018

Dear CHIC community!   The Milestone 4 is now behind us! We were able to present a 3D printed mockup of our product, a first digital mockup of the PCB [...]

Successful pivot and boosted motivation!
FLUID
May 4, 2018

Dear CHIC Community,   The past Milestones have not always been easy. However, with time and dedication we came to a good idea that fit within our competences and within [...]

From breadboard to spring(board)
ecal, EPFL, Flowlin, FLUID, Milestone, ToyGether, UNIL
May 4, 2018

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 [...]

Milestone 3 – Considering the details
Guido
May 4, 2018

Hello everybody! We presented our progress at MS3 about a month ago. Since then, we’ve been working hard trying to deconstruct and implement all the feedback from our supervisors. Here’s [...]

Before MS 4
ToyGether
May 1, 2018

Dear chic community, Milestone 4 is going to happen very soon and we are getting ready. Things are slowly coming together and engineers, designers and business are moving step by [...]

Five weeks left!
Flowlin
April 29, 2018

Dear CHIC community!   As the next Milestones arrives on May 4th the past week challenged us to take some decisions and further initiatives.   The conundrum we have been facing [...]

Does it click?
FLUID
April 29, 2018

Hi all, This week we met with our supervisors to come to an agreement after the designer's midterms evaluation which did not go as expected. Yes we changed our project [...]
ToyGether
April 26, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Here we are, end of April and the project is starting to feel much more real. Things are evolving fast now and you know what ? Designers [...]

Team outing & field experiment at Internef
Flowlin
April 21, 2018

Dear CHIC community, We have the pleasure to announce you that on 17th of April 2018, we conducted our first public survey at the Internef building! We contacted the libraries [...]

The road is long and full of ambushes
FLUID
April 18, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Some time has passed since the last blog post, and spent some time exploring different directions in terms of technology, design and business. Alex (industrial design) had [...]

Start Contest Finale
Trobak, give value to your waste
April 18, 2018

Hi everyone, It's been a while. We're not gonna make a post to tell you everything that we did since the end of our edition of the program, we're just [...]

Happy Easter
FLUID
March 31, 2018

Dear CHIC, Happy Eater! We has planned and begun our new work schedule. With the activation and creativity brought by Milestone 3, we did a lot of researches into the possibilities [...]

When MS3 is done… MS4 is on the way !
ToyGether
March 30, 2018

[caption id="attachment_6219" align="alignnone" width="1490"] Engineering SCRUM board[/caption] Hello followers, we didn't waste too much time after our MS3 pitch and demo to directly go back to work. We have received [...]

New Steps after Milestone-3
Flowlin
March 29, 2018

Dear CHIC Community, Last friday, as a team, we had the chance to share the evolution of the project since the kick-off weekend. We have shared new design mockups, wireframes [...]

The birth of Oversee
FLUID
March 24, 2018

Dear CHIC community,   We arrived at Milestone 3 a little behind our friends of the other teams since we made a big pivot after Milestone 2. However, we have [...]