Hannah Meyer
hannahrmeyer19@gmail.com Website LinkedInHannah Meyer is a senior Industrial Design student at LTU. With a focus on human-centered design and an interest in emerging technologies, they participate on the board of LTU’s IDSA chapter and are a DeEP Fellow at LTU. After a design internship at Plastipak Packaging last summer, they are excited to continue designing sustainable, human-centered, and future-focused designs.
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MajorProduct Design [BS]
DescriptionTo explore the fusion of traditional materials with advanced manufacturing techniques, designer Hannah Meyer created custom linework applications for 3D printing clay through robots. The unique properties of clay, being infinitely recyclable and easily modified post-print, make it a great material for prototyping applications.
Through custom linework designs, Hannah iterated on the types of geometry that could be created through the current CoAD setup. While previous prints were made with closed-loop surface geometry generated in Grasshopper, their approach focused on implementing hand-drawn geometries to create new forms such as intentional dividing walls, windows, open faces, and patterned bases and walls.
To test the versatility of this method, additional prototypes were printed in TPU. Utilizing a traditional 3D printer, the same linework method was used to create prints with custom Gcode. While these prints can not take advantage of the natural properties of clay, they prove that this method of printing linework can be utilized in all stages of the design process.
Sara Codarin, Matthew DiMaggio, and Mark Meier are the workflow developers.