door Selim Vanbecelaere | 5 nov, 2017 | 2017 Peru Vochtigheidssensor voor koffiebonen |
For the final week (before discovering the South as a gringo tourist) I needed to recollect the distributed sensors and the farmers’ final feedback. In general, those that had experienced a trial period with one of the Humasol sensors were very positive and...
door Selim Vanbecelaere | 6 sep, 2017 | 2017 Peru Vochtigheidssensor voor koffiebonen |
Since Alessandro and Charlotte have finished the construction of the solar dryer (hurray!) as of mid august, we are currently gathering data about the coffee that is drying inside. We hope to optimise the design based on this data of the drying process. Meanwhile,...
door Selim Vanbecelaere | 17 aug, 2017 | 2017 Peru Vochtigheidssensor voor koffiebonen |
As the humidity sensors need to function (read: be calibrated) before I can distribute them to interested coffee farmers, the beginning of the week I continued my quest for wet coffee samples for a proper calibration. As it’s very hot in Jaèn, the beans dry out quite...
door Selim Vanbecelaere | 31 jul, 2017 | 2017 Peru Vochtigheidssensor voor koffiebonen |
To begin the week I decided to join the others on their 2h drive in the mountains back to Chirinos – 1km higher than Jaèn – in order to introduce myself to the coffeecooperative there, la Prosperidad de Chirinos. Once again, everybody is very kind and...
door Selim Vanbecelaere | 21 jul, 2017 | 2017 Peru Vochtigheidssensor voor koffiebonen |
After safely landing in Lima and spending the night there, I arranged some practicalities (phone number, bus ticket to Jaèn, ..) and still had some time to get a glimpse of the city. With around as many habitants as the whole Belgian population, Peru’s capital is big...
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