One-Piece Compliant Mechanism Disk Launcher

The Compliant Mechanisms and Robotics Lab has worked with Mark Rober and his team to create the world's smallest functional Nerf blaster. Watch his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c2NqlUWZfo and find the files to print the blaster here: https://www.printables.com/model/540528-one-piece-compliant-blaster. 

We also wanted to make a version that did not look like a gun, and this disk launcher is the result. Not only is the disk launcher a lot of fun for anyone, but we hope it might be particularly useful for teachers or others to use Mark Rober’s video to teach principles of engineering.

See our related article in Nature Communications.

Intellectual Property

The downloadable 3D print files provided here may be used, modified, and enjoyed for noncommercial use according to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. To license this technology for commercial applications, contact:

BYU Technology Transfer Office
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Brigham Young University
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Phone: (801) 422-6266
https://techtransfer.byu.edu/contact

Or email Bennett Mortensen in the Technology Transfer Office directly at [email protected].