A Self Adaptive Armwrap
If you cannot use your fingers, it is terribly difficult to fasten your watch or grab a knife. In this project, a structure is designed which wraps around your arm when you touch it.
Preliminary experiment with shape morphing structures
Construction of the armwrap
![](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/IO/Onderzoek/Emerging%20Materials%20Lab/Theme_3_-_Shape_Morphing_Materials/Armwrap3.jpg)
![](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/IO/Onderzoek/Emerging%20Materials%20Lab/Theme_3_-_Shape_Morphing_Materials/Armwrap4.jpg)
Armwrap, open and closed
![](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/IO/Onderzoek/Emerging%20Materials%20Lab/Theme_3_-_Shape_Morphing_Materials/Armwrap2.png)
![](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/IO/Onderzoek/Emerging%20Materials%20Lab/Theme_3_-_Shape_Morphing_Materials/Armwrap1.png)
![](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/a/1/csm_22j9a_2552901b11.jpg)
Kaspar Jansen
- +31 (0) 152786905
- k.m.b.jansen@tudelft.nl
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Room B-3-170
Graduate student
- Tyas Franssen (graduation June 14th, 2017)