Since November 2018, the ASME club at UCSB had been funding the Silicone 3D Printer project. Led by Alex Russel, the team started building a 3D printer that uses silicone material as the filament to build 3D object. Some of the concepts were borrowed from the similar project made by Soft Rbotic Toolkit.

We first built a dual syringe pump as one the main components in this project. The purpose of this syringe pump is to provide a constant, adjustable flow of silicone material for the printer. We then built another syringe pump that can hold up to 6 syringes, which served as a platform to actuate multiple soft muscles. Those syringe pumps were powered by stepper motors and controlled by Arduino.