Blog Post Week 6
Pɘggy
April 3, 2017
Hey everyone, Sun is back, warm weather with it. But we have not time to enjoy it ! The all team is being busy to prepare the first milestone that [...]
Week 6
Airaware
April 3, 2017
Hi everyone, As the days pass, we become increasingly aware of our device final functions and possibilities. We are now building an environmental monitoring device that detects the particle level [...]
Blog 5 week
Airaware
March 30, 2017
Hi everyone! During this week we finally received the hardware components we ordered. So we did some preliminary test with them. The sensor model is Shinyei PPD42NS, an [...]
Moving on – moving quickly
ShuQi
March 27, 2017
The one and a half hour meeting we had scheduled this week ahead of our milestone, was not long enough to discuss all the work each one has done. The [...]
week 4
Airaware
March 23, 2017
Hi everyone, This week, after some discussion into the group, we decided to modify the database structure, and our software engineer continued coding the back-end part of our project. After [...]
All about milestone 1
Pɘggy
March 23, 2017
Hi dear CHIC community, After a two week absence I was happy to get back to our team. I was impressed to see how our group advanced and I had [...]
Week 4: Pablo’s visit
Pɘggy
March 20, 2017
Hey everyone! This week we concentrated on the precise specification and working of our little pEggy. After a quick presentation by the mechanical team, we talked about the first milestone, [...]
Get into the customer’s brain
ShuQi
March 19, 2017
In the last weeks the interaction design (Julia) and business (Tabea) tried to get into our future consumer’s brain to understand what they think and feel. This is of great [...]
Week 3: Slowly, but steady
Pɘggy
March 14, 2017
Hey everyone! Team Fribourg here - Where the ideation process is still in a way in progress. We know what we want, but the technical details are still a bit [...]
Week 3
Airaware
March 13, 2017
Hi everyone, This third week our main target was to set up the environment needed to implement solutions we selected in the previous week. We sent out the order of [...]
Today on the menu: TechTalk
ShuQi
March 12, 2017
Last week we spoke about the RFID technology. This week we are explaining the process more in detail. There are different types of RFID technologies. Each one uses different frequencies [...]
2nd week
Airaware
March 7, 2017
During this week, we continued our work on designing the air pollution detection device. We had a meeting with one electronics expert at USI to discuss what is the [...]
We keep moving
ShuQi
March 5, 2017
This week, we began with a feed back about the kick-off. After the conversation we agreed to explore different scenarios/ situation in which our object will be useful. In the [...]
1st week
Airaware
February 28, 2017
Hi everybody, We are working hard this first week to analyze the possible solutions for our idea regarding the following aspects: Electronic, Software, Business and Design. Each one of our [...]
Getting everything on track
Pɘggy
February 27, 2017
To whom it may concern We sat down together to, once again, refine our vision for pEggy and to define its functional requirements. Some of our initial ideas were kept, [...]
Too early to panic but too late to relax
ShuQi
February 27, 2017
You know the feeling when you start to dig into a project and what once seemed too big to handle becomes reasonable? Well, this is not how I feel now. [...]
Kick-off meeting in Lausanne
Airaware
February 23, 2017
Hi Everyone! Last Staturday we had our kick-off meeting of CHIC program in Lausanne. It is so great to see you again and we feel very excited to start the [...]
Kick-off
Pɘggy
February 21, 2017
Hey everybody! Let’s talk about our Kick-Off meeting on Saturday We all arrived on time :-) on Saturday morning to our one day Kick-Off meeting at EPFL in Lausanne. During [...]
Kick-off
ShuQi
February 20, 2017
In a very informative one day session on February 18, we got ready to get the project going. During the last months, we were already working on some prototypes and [...]
Ready to go
Airaware
February 6, 2017
Ciao a tutti! It took us a long time and a lot of brainstorming and discussion with our supervisors and relevant experts to reach this final project idea. Air pollution [...]
may our journey begin
ShuQi
December 22, 2016
Hi there. Our team first met in the train from Geneva to Renens, where the CHIC ideation weekend took place. After these 42min, we were fully convinced of the competence [...]
First steps
Pɘggy
December 19, 2016
Hey everybody and welcome to our first Blog-Post. The CHIC-Project has officially started with the ideation weekend in November! Based on the wide range of information we gained during this [...]