Projects
With a free access to various resources, employees at Nokia can come and have some prototyping fun, carry out innovation projects, produce something for their own learning, improve their working environment, productivity and whatnot. Take a look at a few of our employees’ projects.
Andrei was an experienced and demanding gamer, and when it comes to performance, customization and reactivity are key to him.
Thrilled by the opportunity to design his own tools, he decided to model, print, and build his very own 1-hand keyboard, coping with the limited printing area of Le Garage’s prusa i3.
Jean-Stephane has used the Garage to develop new skills on a personal home automation project. One day, he confronted his home’s monitoring needs to the company’s server room’s, and decided to leverage his personal experience and skills.
Putting in place a low-cost/DIY solution able to detect and escalate failures in the cooling system of the server room, he reinforced the existing corporate solution, improving the reliability of our servers.
The Kitchen next to the Garage witnesses surprising encounters. While joining the discussion of a group of employees passionate about science-fiction, Patrice thought of a system to guide visitors on our campus and imagined it as a floating sphere.
He built his single-motor spherical drone and improved it with better stabilization, additional power, and mission control.
Mathieu was passionate about Big Data, always looking for opportunities to learn and experiment on this topic. When a researcher told him about the difficulty to visualize shape patterns from virtual Atomic Force Microscope images, he couldn’t resist.
Using his coding skill and a 3D printer, he managed to transform nanoscale scanned surfaces into physical objects.
Olivier designed a cool, interactive, intuitive, playful animated tool to illustrate in a simple and graphical way how the Nokia packet microwave products and features can deliver the capacity required by ultra-broadband networks in the three segments addressed: Small cell backhaul, shorthaul and longhaul.
The result of this project was showcased in the VIP area of the company’s booth at the 2015 Mobile World Congress.
Gender diversity is about changing the way we look at talent, and the way we look at girls and boys, women and men, without preconceived ideas. If we don’t pay attention, talent will not flourish and we will lose major innovators and innovations.
Elisabeth and members of the StrongHer movement imagined an immersive experience to take users to see through girls’ and women’s eyes, and realize how our unconscious biases progressively deter girls from science and undermine their confidence, or women from career progress and leadership.
