Designing a product-brand strategy for a coffee bean service

The coffee market is moving towards coffee preparation based on the whole bean in the household sector. Consumers are buying new machines and are looking for higher quality beans. At the same time, more and more appliances are becoming connected to the internet, and consumers are looking for holistic digital solutions. For appliance-oriented...

Sustainable material research: CoffeeBased panels in a condiment organizer

Plastics that originate from renewable sources, such as potatoes or fungi, are called biobased plastics. Because of their origin, biobased plastics pose as sustainable alternative to traditional plastics, which are made from oil, a fossil substance. CoffeeBased is a small company that manufactures biobased plastic products, using their own...

iFixit Coffee Maker: How we can provide the right tools and right knowladge to improve the maintenance and repair of full automatic coffee makers within the EU

This project focuses on how we can provide consumers with the right tools and the right knowledge so that they can take care of their coffee makers. The final outcome of this project is a toolkit that includes all the necessary items for maintenance and repair and a website to help consumers through the fault diagnosis process (i.e. help them...

A strategy towards a fair coffee chain

It is all about increasing fairness in the coffee industry. The coffee chain is not fair. This unfairness has been hidden from most of the actors in the coffee chain. The lack of communication is considered to be a vital element of the mentioned injustice. Moyee, a newly born company, has taken a different approach by shifting the value-adding...

Granual Jamming Gripper: The Design of a Universal Gripper And Accompanying Capacitive Sensor Array

This document describes the design and modification of a Universal Jamming Gripper. On the existing idea is expanded in such a way that it can be used in a low power environment. For the gripper a capacitive sensor is proposed to measure the deformation of the flexible part. This measurement can be used to aid in centring an object in the...