Sketches:
Silicone heart sketches. Deciding between having two chambers, 4 chambers, etc. Could be made with a two part mode or with an open mode.
Materials + Equipment:
- Near clear Ecoflex Silicone
- Low pressure hydraulic pump
- Water Reservoir/tank
- Syringe/hand pump
- Dyes (Red/Blue)
- Valves
- Tubes
Joint Bibliography:
Paper | Design and Characterization of a Miniature Hydraulic Power Supply for High-Bandwidth Control of Soft Robotics
While this paper did not have too much direct application to our project, it describes the parameters a power source might have to sufficiently power hydraulics for a soft robotic application.
Padovani, Damiano, and Eric J. Barth. “Design and Characterization of a Miniature Hydraulic Power Supply for High-Bandwidth Control of Soft Robotics.” In 2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 345–50, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft48309.2020.9116049.