Prototypes – Xu (Week 11)

Springe pump

I made a syringe pump which helps by an online open source. This syringe pump pushes out small, accurate amounts of liquid which helps the water dropping more similar than the real tears from human. The tears need to be more controllable, so this machine can smoothly control the water from forward and backward by using Arduino.

 

The components of this machine:

Arduino Uno R3, 17V stepper motor, Adafruit motor shield, mounting rail, threaded rod, shaft coupler, smooth rod, linear bearing, syringe, tubes, some nuts. And I 3D-printed 4 components. The motor rotates the shaft coupler, and shaft coupler rotates threaded rod which can trigger the rod mount plunger to move forward and backward.

Precedent:

Syringe Pump

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