High school student Rebekah Woo came to BlueStamp Engineering’s New York City summer camp, which ran for six weeks ending in July, with a specific vision: a color-changing, thermochromic 3D printed dress that can be controlled. After bringing it to fruition, she imagines its application in construction.
“A vision of mine is dyeing 3D printed panels with these thermochromic dyes so that they could act as sensors. These panels would be assembled to create the exterior walls of a building. As people or objects passed by, the heat emitting from their movement would be reflected onto the wall, changing the color,” says Woo, from San Diego.