Open Source Breast Pump
Part of the "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Project at the MIT Media Lab
Part of the "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Project at the MIT Media Lab
This page is part of the MIT Media Lab's 2014 Breast Pump Hackathon. For more details please see the Hackathon's main page at breastpump.media.mit.edu
Use at your own risk. The hacks/projects/designs are not tested, we make no claims as to their safety or effectiveness, and they come with no warranties or guarantees of any sort.
For the projects posted during the hackathon see the main hackathon page, and the challengepost page.
Additionally - 3D printable parts and accessories are being designed, and will be posted. So far, one such design is already posted, see below.
Open system pumps (pumps lacking a barrier between the milk collection side and the pump mechanism) are more difficult to clean, and misuse could lead to contamination of the milk.
Use of silicone diaphragms on "open system" pumps could potentially help combat milk contamination.
A design for Ameda's silicone diaphragms is available on this github repository: https://github.com/compugician/opensourcepump
This design consists of a 'top' and 'body' parts as shown in the pictures below:
Top
Body
If you don't own a 3D printer, and especially if you haven't 3D printed before, it is perhaps best for you to wait until these have been further tested by a few more people before you pay to have these 3D printed by an online service.
Also, if you'd like to help testing, we might have extra prints available - please reach out:
breastpump-organizers@media.mit.edu and/or tal@media.mit.edu