Tengo

Joy is spontaneous. Our product has it and rents it, whenever you want at the place where you need it the most.

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Rental service for objects to play in parks

Avoid spending hours planning your leaisure time. If you feel like playing volleyball, Tengo has it. Or if you will want to launch some frisbees, Tengo has it.

Promoting sports and outdoor activities

Swiss design. Making group activities easier

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Modularity

The size of boxes are fitted to different objects and their configuration is adapted to its surrounding environment

Off grid feature

Provided with a battery lasting for more than two weeks, Tengo can be placed in any location of your liking

Subscription option

To rent our objects we offer a subscription package. Enjoy our objects for a whole year!

Easy object return

The in-built token allows anyone with it to return the rented object, even if your phone has run out of battery!

Never miss a moment of joy

Using our applications you will be able to rent available objects at any time. A click, take, play!

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Team members


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  • Antoine Barras

  • Software Engineering
    User Experience
  • ECAL
I am a passionate listener and I love passing time with people. For this reason, I have always been very active in student association in several positions: Chief Editor at the High-School Radio, Board member at the regional youth parliament, Organizer and then Chairperson at several European Youth Parliament sessions, Event Manager for the Material Science Student Association. I am a curious and energetic person, always ready to receive and give feedback in order to improve myself and my environment.
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  • Tomas Turner

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • EPFL
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  • Alicia Roschnik

  • Business
  • UNIL
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  • Vuk Pajovic

  • Electronic Engineering
  • EPFL
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  • Ethan Valladares

  • Industrial Design
  • ECAL
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  • Antoni Bigata

  • Firmware Engineering
    Software Engineering
  • EPFL

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Our blog


Dreaming a Tengo in HK beach

August 6, 2019

Hello everyone! With feelings of joy, tiredness and fulfillment our journey in China ended a few days ago. The moments passed together are now memories, but so many of those… [...]

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Stuff happening in HK

July 22, 2019

Hey everyone, We arrived the 20th in HK and started experiencing the pace at which this city goes. Buildings are tall, roads are narrow and taxis go fat. In this… [...]

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Bye bye Shenzhen, we have a prototype

July 22, 2019

Hey everyone, MS7 done, and we managed to finish the prototype. We were a bit suspicious if we would have been able to do it, but in the end we… [...]

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Speeding up Tengo in Shenzhen!

July 17, 2019

Hey everyone! When knowing who to ask, so many things are doable in Shenzhen! This morning together, Tomas and Ethan found a place at 10:00 where to weld the hinges… [...]

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From paper to metal in 10 hours

July 15, 2019

Hey everyone! Today we really experienced the «Shenzhen speed». Having finished the final mechanical drawings in the wee hours of the morning, we were late; but this city allowed us… [...]

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Exploring Shenzhen suppliers

July 14, 2019

The amazing thing of Shenzhen is the quantity of suppliers present in one city. From LED, to PCB and injected plastic here you can find everything. Yesterday we revisited again… [...]

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Land, sleep, prototype!

July 11, 2019

Hello everyone! Between skyscrapers and construction sites, we are now at x.factory, a maker space in Shenzhen. What better place to prototype our product than the most rapidly growing city… [...]

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MS5 and nearly ready to fly!

May 31, 2019

Hello everyone! Wednesday we had our milestone, were we presented our prototype. Still some things to slightly improve, but we are close to a final functional prototype! We have our… [...]

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Pick and place for success

May 21, 2019

Hello everyone! one mini step on a green board, a great step step for our product. Today we assembled the PCB, which later this week will be tested! Great news… [...]

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Construction Team: assemble!

May 16, 2019

Hello everybody! Yesterday Vuk, Tomas and Ethan assembled at Ethan's place to share thoughts and sketches on the design of our product. To note also the presence  of Alex, member… [...]

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PCB ordered!

May 10, 2019

Hello everyone! Yes, you read the title well, our PCB has been ordered! For this, we thank Vuk for having worked really a lot to make the design of it… [...]

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Something that fits perfectly with our project

April 29, 2019

Hello everyone! Nice to be back talking to you :) A couple of weeks ago we stumbled upon the "budget participatif" of City of Lausanne. From the very start we… [...]

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What’s new for team Vukovi ?

April 21, 2019

Hello everyone, Last Thursday we had our fourth milestone during which we present the new direction for the final project. We had great feedback from the CHIC community and what… [...]

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Photoshoot after the MS3

March 25, 2019

Hello everyone, So, this Friday, we had the MS3 and the feedback that go with it bought a lot of doubt on the clarity of the scenario. It seems that… [...]

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Tea driven decisions and prototyping

March 19, 2019

Hello everyone! MS3 is in a few days and decisions have to be done! Thankfully we have tea to calm us down and keep the mood up to keep going!… [...]

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Iteration on the business model

March 11, 2019

Hello everyone! Business models can be quite hard. If your business is not a classic B2C and includes several actors, including some institutional ones, everything becomes much more complicated In… [...]

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Soon the first prototype

March 5, 2019

Hello everyone ! Sorry we are a little late with the blogpost this week, but this is because we are spending a lot of time trying to define what would be… [...]

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Interviews, shopping lists and visit cards

February 26, 2019

Hello everyone! The semester has started, students fill the rooms and Team Vukovi thinks: how to fill our booth? Tomas went to Geneva and had some very interesting conversations with… [...]

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Milestone 2 and beyond

February 17, 2019

Hello everyone, This week-end we had the lift off week-end for our project. It started with the MS2 that allowed us to get very interesting feedback from all the CHIC… [...]

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Assumptions, discussions and again assumptions discussions

February 10, 2019

Hey everyone! Assumptions are made to be put to the test. Some pass it, but many fail. This week in an interview with some grandmothers from Ticino an assumption was… [...]

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Holidays or CHIC ?

February 4, 2019

Hey everyone, This week team Vukovi is on holidays but we are not forgetting about CHIC as we are all looking to test the desirability of our product. To do… [...]

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What is more appealing? Interview round

January 31, 2019

Hey everybody! We have survived exams!!! Now we can relax for a little while, and use the time for CHIC too. Fortunately, we have a plan. After one of the best… [...]

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New week, new hint

January 20, 2019

Hi everyone, This week was quite calm in terms of CHIC program because of our respective exams. Nevertheless, we all started to collect the material we will need to make… [...]

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An idea to discover

January 13, 2019

Hey everybody! What a week! Except for getting excited for the little snow that fell on Lausanne the team got together to decide on the final idea and work on… [...]

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And, like that, the new year begins!

January 6, 2019

Dear CHIC community, We hope that you all had a great beginning of year! For our part this week we had our first reunion of 2019. This was quite hard… [...]

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Celebrate for the beginning of an exciting 2019!

December 30, 2018

Hello everyone! I hope that you had a lovely Christmas with your dear ones and are ready for the New Year eve party! Our team is getting ready to celebrate… [...]

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From us all to you all, a very merry Christmas!

December 23, 2018

Dear CHIC community, our team members have had a busy week with several assignments and exams. The three engineers: Vuk, Tomas and Antoni have also started thinking about a research… [...]

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Tough Questions at MassChallenge

December 17, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Last Monday was our first pitch in front of a real jury. No need to say that the questions were very different that the ones we are… [...]

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Going back to the roots of food

December 10, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Another intensive week has passed. Monday we had the ideation evening, where through quantitative brainstorming we came out with interesting ideas. We spent also some time refining… [...]

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MS1 Bites the Dust

December 2, 2018

[embed]https://vimeo.com/304046196[/embed] Dear CHIC Community, This week was very important for us since we had our first big step as a team: Milestone 1. It was quite an intense (read, insane)… [...]

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Decision Decisions!

November 25, 2018

Dear CHIC Community, as others have already said, time is ticking. Next week is already time to present our opportunity space and decisions have to be made. During the last… [...]

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Divergent Tacos

November 19, 2018

It's friday night, it's VUKOVI day, it's cold, and Ethan welcomes us at home. Up in his tower, the young man has got all the ingredients to treat us like… [...]

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Looking for the Holy Opportunity Spacez

November 4, 2018

Hi guys!   Conflict. Coordination. Communication.   These are only a few of the keywords of an intensive workshop on the topic of teamwork. We set up the basis of… [...]

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Energy footprints

October 29, 2018

  Our opportunity space is  energy footprints which results of a combination of several different spaces. Data spaces. Pretending to be the target of your data collect can help you to gather… [...]

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Consumption

October 28, 2018

Hi! For some reason, we've identified ourselves as Vukovi - a pack of good intentioned wolves. Antoni, Tomas, Vuk. Engineers. Antoine, Ethan. Designers. Alicia. Economist. This is the structure of… [...]

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