Wai Lok Wan

InSituWear: On-body Fabrication of Custom-fit Wearable Structures using Melt-drawn PCL Filaments

We present InSituWear, a form-finding, on-body robotic fabrication method that melt-draws low-temperature thermoplastic polycaprolactone (PCL) directly onto the human body to create personalized wearables. Heated to a plasticized state, PCL is stretched into microfilaments (minimum diameter ≈ 0.03 mm) and robotically…