World's First Beer Opening Compliant Mechanism

The world's first beer opening compliant mechanism. A mechanism that violates many precision design principles.

It features 3D printing, gold, buckled leafsprings, too much pivot shift, a compliant frame, overconstraints, Comic Sans, a movie trailer voiceover, and loud noises.

As is tradition in our lab, upon receiving the PhD title, the new doctor receives a highly technical and needlessly complicated device as a gift from its colleagues. This beauty of a flexure mechanism has been created for dr. ir. Mark Naves, to reciprocate after having designed the spectacular T-Flex hexapod:    • T-Flex: Compliant Flexure-based Large...  .

Design and realisation of the KroonKurkKanon by
Martin Tschiersky
Marijn Nijenhuis
Jan de Jong

Video and music arrangement by Marijn Nijenhuis
The Flexure Groove in Db (original)
   • The Flexure Groove in D flat  
Flexure Freude (funky Ode To Joy cover)
   • Flexure Freude (funky Ode To Joy cover)  

Hand, arm and watch from Martin Tschiersky.