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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 [...]
Hooray! We got a neat concept under our hands now. The lasts weeks, we had grown more and more concerned by the complex nature of the hospital environment. And even [...]
This week we applied the so called “get out of the building approach” mentioned by Steve Blank in his article about positive outcomes of applying the Lean method. “You create [...]
Dear Chic, This week was a meaningful week, because we made our final decision on our project. On Tuesday, we had our regular meeting. Alex and Victor demonstrated the results [...]
Hi everyone, We went yesterday to the Espace Musical. For most of us it was our first introduction to the solfege and rythmic world. This experience made us realise what [...]
Dear CHIC community, During the second milestone, we discussed and debated a lot about the idea of a portable turbine and decided to expand the range of our investigation while [...]
Hello followers, what a week we just had ! The semester's first deadlines, the CHIC meetings and even an unexpected March snowstorm. As mentioned in the previous post, the semester [...]
Hi everyone! Last week, we needed some rest after MS2 to rethink everything we'd been told. All the feedback was very useful, but we felt a bit pushed around and [...]
While reflecting about the best way to organize blocking behaviors of our product, I tried to categorize sources of distractions. I came up with this classification which is now helping [...]
Hi everyone ! We hope that getting back to school was as much fun for you than it was for us! This week after MS2, we took a break from [...]
Hello everyone ! The beginning of the project is finally launched ! Team Fribourg has eventually changed its name : CORE. You probably wonder what it means. Well, it's the [...]
[caption id="attachment_4361" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Take-off[/caption] Chill, take it easy and relax… It is the last weekend before the beginning of the semester … Well, that was not really our plan, [...]
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 [...]
In order to prepare the Kick off week-end our team tried to meet although some of the members had enjoyed their free time away from School in their home country. [...]
Dear CHIC Community, Team Fribourg was very pleased to meet all of you during this weekend ! All the expertise that was here helped us very much. We had a [...]
Hello CHIC community, As I am writing these lines, the rest of the team is working hard on the second prototype of our turbine. I'm letting them sweat [...]
Dear CHIC Community, The second milestone approaches quickly as we keep working on our mini-turbine. Some serious progress has been made this week in many aspects of the device. Some [...]
Dear CHIC Community, Time flies and MS2 is coming soon ! As ou already know, many things have changed since MS1 if not everything ! We started all over again, [...]
Today, Thursday 1st February, our team met up to test our prototypes in an objective way. We tested 2 prototypes: - bones conduction device - buzzers bracelet Bones conduction devices [...]
Hey, We wrote this post on Tuesday, January 30th. And for our team, Tuesday is experimentation day. Romain built a prototype for a bracelet that can transmit navigation information through [...]
Hey! This week, Monday 29th January, Joanne and Romain worked on the questions we had raised the previous week. With this new direction, two prototypes are in the process of [...]
Hi everybody! We met up last week on January 25th at the HEAD with the rest of the team. This meeting was definitely a revelation for the team. It [...]
Last time we posted a progress post, we had defined a “world” we wanted to work in and had a blank page in front of us. The engineers were working [...]
Having graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts et Design of Amiens with a degree in DNA Design Graphique, I have now joined a Masters in Media Design at the [...]
Hooray crew! We survived the pernicious waters of conjectures and we are now sailing on the sea of concreteness. MS2 island don't look so far away anymore. Our efforts are being [...]
Hello CHIC community, We had some difficult times, especially since most of us just finished struggling through the exams season, and a couple of us still have one [...]
... and so did the children. But they can share the adventure together while staying at the Hôpital de l'enfance in Lausanne. The cute little plush toys are given by [...]
Hi everyone, I'm Mehmed Blazevic and I'm from Bosnia, but I was born here, in Geneva. I've always liked technology and especially computer science. When I finished mandatory school, I [...]
My life started the 9’th May 1996 in Geneva when my parents gave me the name Gabriel Da Silva Marques. With a name like that of course my origin is [...]
Do you like cats ? There’s so many people on this earth who like them. And I still don’t understand why, and what’s even worse is the fact that I’m [...]
Dear CHIC Community, The end of semester is coming and all the team napac is under the stress… But our team does not let down ! We are on the [...]
Born the 1rst of june 1995, I grew up in switzerland. I am a mountain and lake lover. I love cats, dive in deep water, nature and animals. For now, [...]
Welcome to 2018! Since the beginning of this adventure, the Fluid team has had some difficulties to find the ideal idea. Indeed, multiple constraints do not facilitate the take-off of [...]
Hi readers, Our team is currently investigating whether a connected teddy bear would have a place to be loved and cuddled, either at home or in hospitals. To understand the [...]
As we all are on holidays some of the team members couldn’t come to this meeting. Kevin managed to be present via Skype which is also a great way for [...]
Dear CHIC Community, The team #5 from Fribourg wasn't very active until now, but this is over ! "Team #5"... What an impersonal name ! This is because we have [...]
End of the semester, Christmas, New Year’s celebrations, upcoming exams, holidays…So many reasons for slowing down on our weekly meetings, but we didn’t ! As Chloe mentioned in the last [...]
With Milestone 1 behind us, we needed some time to sit back and reflect on what we had done. The NAPaC One project was developed for a milestone, but none [...]
Hello, The Christmas Holiday is approaching. We are also busy with many deadlines of courses at school. On Monday, we attended the Demo day for last year's projects. In spite [...]
The days before Christmas are always stressful. This year in addition to present purchases and school deadlines we also want to progress within the CHIC project. Amandine, our product designer, [...]
