Are you a Master student at EPFL (STI, IC) or HEC (Information Systems)? Do you want to design an innovative product from scratch and travel to China in July 2016 [...]
Do you want to design an innovative product and travel to China to manufacture it for your semester project? During the Spring semester you will go from idea to production. [...]
Have you been following the first edition of the China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC)? Are you curious to see what an interdisciplinary group of students from EPFL, ecal and UNIL can [...]
Read the full post by David Spring (UNIL/Unicom) here and in Allez Savoir
Read the full article and interview with Pascal Marmier here (source: ICT Journal)
Read the full article and interview with Alex Wayenberg here (source: ICT Journal)
Read the full article and interview with Marc Laperrouza here (source: ICT Journal)
Probably no better picture to leave Shenzhen than a painting glimpsed in Seeed's new headquarters...
The day started with the visit of PCH, a company that fully integrates activities from the design of a product to its distribution worldwide. Niamh Given gave us a short [...]
But we are not quite there yet it seems! Another full day in Shenzhen that started with a visit of one of the most exciting incubation space in the region: [...]
Sunday in Shenzhen.... means either work or shopping. Most participants enjoyed a good rest in the morning before heading out for THE karaoke.
Another busy day (Saturday) for all the teams. Some engineers went back to Seeed to keep the assembly process while the other team members either stayed at the hotel to [...]
[caption id="attachment_709" align="alignnone" width="300"] Work at Seeedstudio[/caption] Finally a full day of work at Seeedstudio. Teams are starting the soldering process. Some surprises here and there...
An early start (7.30AM) for one of the most exciting industrial visit. The bus headed to Dongguan, the industrial area of Shenzhen. After a 90 minute drive we arrived at [...]
Another full day of work at Seeedstudio for the 3 teams. [caption id="attachment_697" align="alignnone" width="300"] CHIC's working space at Seeedstudio[/caption] [caption id="attachment_698" align="alignnone" width="300"] Firmware on the way[/caption] [caption id="attachment_696" [...]
After a great evening of networking and fun at the Hilton, we woke up on Tuesday to visit a PCB factory near Shenzhen. We had the great pleasure of being [...]
First day at Seeedstudio. We finally all meet with Ivy who has been organising the whole trip on Seeedstudio's side. After a brief presentation of Seeed's activities, participants discover the [...]
After a short night (some were actually able to "document" the sunrise on ClearWater Bay), everybody headed to the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border by public transport. A few hours later (and [...]
The day was spent roaming Hong Kong to familiarize students with the diversity of the city. The five teams were tasked with a number of activities. Equipped with a day [...]
Hardly arrived in Hong Kong and already copied! [caption id="attachment_642" align="alignnone" width="225"] CHIC in Hong Kong[/caption] Thanks to Niccolo (swissnex Boston) for spotting and taking the picture
HKSTP After a pretty short night (at least for some of us who had to adjust some final details on their pitches and project handouts) we went to visit the [...]
After a first night in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, we have spent a very busy day and a first experience with a so called Typhoon. We have [...]
As Florian already told you this second day was really intense in discovery and knowledge. Nevertheless we should not forget that innovation is not only about science and market, but [...]
May 1 The 2nd milestone of CHIC was held on labour day! The 3 teams presented their progress in front of their colleagues and experts from the different schools involved [...]
The second CHIC milestone will be held on May 1st (from noon to 2PM) at EPFL (CM 1100). Stay tuned to discover how the three teams have progressed on their [...]
March 13 Today we had the first reunion of all the teams since the kick-off week-end. Each team had 15 minutes to present the progress of their project, including the [...]
"La silver économie ou économie des séniors désigne l'ensemble des activités économiques liées au personnes âgées. Résultante de l'accroissement de l'espérance de vie, le développement de la silver économie est [...]
After some interviews with nurses we now have a better understanding of what a baby needs and believe more than ever that our project can assist babies around the world in [...]
A nice side effect of the CHIC is that all of our group members will be great fathers/mothers after studying 24/7 what an innovative baby bottle is all about! ;)
"People don't want quarter inch drills, they want quarter inch holes". Ted Levitt
After quite some brainstorming and horse trading the participants to CHIC came up with 3 great projects: an intelligent baby bottle, a water environmental monitoring device and a device to [...]
Below are the keywords proposed by the participants regarding what will make CHIC 2015 a success for them.
Participants to CHIC 2015 are learning the tricks of the trade by applying the value proposition canvas to the case of Airbnb.
