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Enteral feeding has occupied humanity since ancient times. The reason this happens is that when the human body is not nourished through the normal route of entry of food, i.e. the oral cavity, it cannot survive. Over the years and utilizing the technology of each era, various ways of feeding patients who could not do it on their own were used. In today's era, with the means at our disposal, we can and do manufacture electronic administration devices and this is what we implemented in this Diploma Thesis, we designed and manufactured an electronic pump for administration of enteral feeding. The STM32F103C8T6 microcontroller was used for its construction due to its great capabilities, its ease of use and the great support it receives from the manufacturing company STMicroelectronics. Due to the requirement of the manufacturing specifications and the restrictions to exclude the transported feed from coming into contact with any mechanical non-sterile part, the peristaltic pump solution and its accessories such as the silicone tube were chosen for pumping and transporting the feed, properly processed for the specific use. All the stages needed to create such a device were analyzed and recorded, the manufacturing stage with the software used, the programming stage and the supporting programs necessary to write the code in the microcontroller memory and finally the stage of settings and measurements with the methodology followed to achieve the desired result. Particular attention was paid to the device's user menu so that the operations required to enter the administration data are as simple and understandable as possible for the average user.