Printed Electronics
| Organization | Status | Duration | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute, Lewis Group / Voxel8 | Complete | summer 2013, summer 2014 | Voxel8 |
My first internship was as an Undergraduate Researcher at Harvard SEAS in the summer of 2013. I worked with the Lewis Research Group, which specializes in 3D printing functional materials. I collaborated with the material scientists there to develop a 3D printer and software to print conductive circuits embedded in traditional FDM prints.
I mounted a common hot-end and extruder to a 3D gantry, as well as a nozzle to deposit conductive ink. I wrote post-processing scripts in Perl for Slic3r to insert g-code to print the conductive circuits at specific layers in the print.
This work was the foundation for the Voxel8 3D electronics printer, which was later spun out as a startup the following year. Most of this work was tuning the print parameters for both FDM and ink extrusion to work well together, and testing the structural and electrical properties of the devices produced.
