mugiro / soft-muscle-printing

Python Packages needed for Printing Soft Artificial Muscle using Soft Muscle Printer

Soft-Muscle-Printing

This repository contains the code/data/model for printing Soft Artificial Muscle using Soft Muscle Printer. The runnable jupyter notebook are dog_bone muscle.ipynb and Soft_muscle_twisted spiral.ipynb

Graphical abstract

Photo of the soft muscle printer

video of printing a muscle and actuating

video of printing complex structures

CAD and STL model of the mixer and electronics housing.

The raw Inventor model can be found in the modeling folder, which contains contains the 3d-printable and lasercut models to replicate the printer.

The mixer CAD model can be found in in ./modeling/mixer_design. The converted stl model can be found in ./modeling/mixer_design/stl_model. The CAD model for laser-cutting the electronics housing can be found in modeling/lasercut_electronics_housing. To open the CAD model (*.ipt and *.iam file), use Autodesk Inventor 2019. The CAD models can also be found in Grabcad.