Designed By: Jeffrey Bush

The green spinner on the left was reverse-engineered so that we could make spinners for Code Hounds. Code Hounds is a week-long camp for children entering grades 5 through 7. They have the opportunity to learn coding and coding concepts. These spinners were created for activities during the camp and also as trinkets for the children to take home with them.

Run By: Jeffrey Bush

Moravian University hosted the February 2020 meeting for the Lehigh Valley Section of the American Chemical Society (LVACS) where a special session was held where participants created and printed 3D molecular models while learning about the chemistry behind 3D printing polymers.

Since 2020, we have been working with various communities around the Lehigh Valley, primarily those associated with Good Shepherd Rehabilitation, to create new, custom assistive devices for people in need. 3D printing students work with occupational therapy (OT) graduate students to design and create a device to increase independence and quality of life. Now, in the fifth year of collaborations, dozens of custom devices have been created, ranging from cup holders for wheelchairs to enjoying leisure pursuits such as gardening or gaming. This has resulted in OT students being more willing to embrace this growing technology and students seeing and receiving feedback on their devices used in real-world settings.

Featured In:

• Fig Lehigh Valley Fall 2022, page 11

• Community Spotlight on Astound!/ATVN in January 2023

Riley Kirkpatrick '21, William Brandes '21, Mark Morykan '22, Brandon Adams '22, Anthony Estephan '20, Jack Fineanganofo '22, Shane Houghton '22 '23, Evan Toyberg '23

We produced hundreds of face shields and over 500 stethoscopes during the initial period of the pandemic when medical equipment was difficult to obtain. These were given to local hospitals, emergency services, and other medical groups. Moravian students worked around the clock for weeks, balancing their school work while tending the 3D printers, producing supplies 24-7. Moravian faculty, administration, and staff went out of their way to get us access to facilities on campus and funding for the project. Additionally, several community members stepped forward to support the effort, using their own 3D printers to speed up production.

News Articles:

• Morning Call: Moravian College professor, students make 3D face shields, stethoscopes for health care workers fighting coronavirus

• College, company’s 3D printers fire up across the Lehigh Valley to help those in coronavirus fight | Moravian University 

Designed By: Riley Kirkpatrick '21

For a speech-language pathology graduate student doing research with tools for people who have hearing and/or sight impairments to practice communication. The goal is to build a "sentence" from the words by placing them in the top row.

Designed By: Willy Brandes '21

For Gloria Chibueze-Azinge for use in conflict resolution circles. Used as the centerpiece for one of these circles, each person will write their outward appearance and their qualities that do not come from their appearance on the back of a piece. Afterward, the puzzle will be put together to signify unification of the group despite their differences.

Designed By: Jack Wagner '23

As a partnership with the Moravian Cheese Club, we created collectible statues of their cheese hound logo to be used as rewards for a scavenger hunt. These were created by modifying a scan of a Moravian athletic award and printed with various hats and other accouterments and in several distinct colors.

Designed By: Seth Coleman '25

A replacement part for the fluorescent light housings in PPHAC building at Moravian University. They replicated the replacement bracket from pieces of broken ones using Onshape, and printed it with Break-away support and PETG plastic to circumvent the lack of a flat face and prevent melting in the warm conditions near the bulb respectively. Around four of these brackets are in use and each bracket, costing only 27¢ to print.

Designed By: Zachery Bingaman '25

A replacement sofa wheel socket for a rolling sofa that is in the lounge areas of the Hall of Science. He replicated the original mounting holes from the broken housing using Onshape, and improved the model so the leg would be more sturdy and less prone to breaking from stress in the future. It was printed with PLA plastic due to its environmentally friendly nature and inexpensiveness to reproduce. A number of these legs were made in case other sofa legs break in the future, all costing a mere 60¢ to print for each one.

Designed By: Mark Morykan '22, Zachery Bingaman '25

Replacement clips that are used to hold the bed frames together in the dorms on Moravian’s campus. Every year, more of the originals break when the beds are taken apart for cleaning, and so far over a hundred of these have been deployed at 3¢ a piece.