Syringe Control System

In the Spring of 2020, I worked on developing a low-cost, modular pneumatic system for controlling soft robot actuators. In the end, I was able to present two fully functional syringe units being daisy-chained using I2C protocol. This research project is completely open-source, and I have already documented it in full detail in the GitHub repository. A complete handbook can be found here.

More than half of this project was done in my off-campus housing during the COVID-19 pandemic. I would like to thank part-time lecturer Brandon Stafford from Tufts who kindly offered me to borrow a 3D printer from the school's makerspace continue working on the project at home.

Design sketches and renderings

Prototyping