ThermalDermal Tutorial

Pain relief envisioned as something you could wear while going out at night. Current heating patches are squares or ovals. ThermalDermal proposes any one-line shape as the substrate for heat. In the example below, it is pictured as a “hot tramp stamp”. A wearable patch that is both physically and conceptually hot.

Tools and Materials

  1. Gennel conductive cloth fabric adhesive tape

  2. Ecoflex silicone 00-30

  3. Thermochromic pigment

  4. Silicone Cover Stranded-Core Wire - 50ft 30AWG White

  5. Vinyl cutter

  6. Xacto blade or box cutter

Construction Steps

Design

  1. Create a 4mm thickness of one-liner 2D design, avoid any intersections

Vinyl cutting the design from tape

  1. Import the design into Silhouette, vinyl cut it on conductive fabric tape

  2. Remove the negative area of the tape

Solder wires

  1. Measure the resistance of the trace, ideal resistance is around 10 ohms.

  2. Solder wires onto each end of the trace

Silicone cast

  1. Mix 5 grams of part A and 5 grams of part B of Ecoflex

  2. Add 0.5 grams of thermochromic pigments

  3. Place the vinyl cut tape on a flat surface, pour the silicone mixture onto the vinyl cut tape to achieve an even layer

  4. After the silicone fully cures, flip it and cut out the shape with a Xacto knife

Attachment

  1. Microporous tape layered across to create desired thickness

  2. Layered uline tape over to desired thickness

  3. Place tattoo on top right side facing out and cut tape layers to fit tattoo 

  4. Stick to skin or plastic backing to store