About

Lugworm was developed at the Institute of Digital and Autonomous Construction (IDAC), Hamburg University of Technology, for LDM in a laboratory setting.

Team

Name	Role
Jasper Vollmert	Developer
Prof. Kay Smarsly	Advisor
Adel Alatassi	Advisor, Tester
Mayur Gajanan Kale	Tester

Publications

Please use the repository’s CITATION.cff metadata to cite Lugworm, this helps a lot!

For the DoE component justification, also see: Vollmert, J. & Große, B., 2026. Optimizing and predicting process parameters for clay additive manufacturing using design of experiments. In: Proceedings of the 37th Forum Bauinformatik. Rostock, Germany, 09/30/2026.

Acknowledgements

Open source. Lugworm builds on Rhino and Grasshopper and thanks the thorough work of the RepRap, RepRapFirmware, Marlin, and Klipper communities. The documentation site uses a Just the Docs template.

We also wish to acknowledge the plugin “Silkworm” as well as GeekDetour/BrickLayers for their fantastic work and inspiration!

Contact

Please contact me directly at jasper.vollmert@tuhh.de to report a Duet machine that does not work, or to collaborate on making a machine compatible.

Bugs and feature requests belong in the issue tracker. Include the installed version, the info output of the component that failed, and a minimal definition.

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