Table Mounted Bottle Opener

Table Mounted Bottle Opener - open-source assistive technology product by the Hasoub community

About this project

This 3D-printed bottle opener helps open medicine and other bottles, compensating for limited dexterity or strength in the hands. It’s graduated design fits various sizes and allows the user to open them with minimal effort and movement.

The challenge

Doaa suffers from many symptoms that affects her every day activities and we want to help her achieve more independence. after a talk with our need knower, we found that she has a hard time opening her pill bottles.

Who it helps

Our need knower is a 25yo multiple sclerosis patient who suffers from many symptoms mostly related to her soft motor skills and muscle strength these symptoms affect her day-to-day activities.

How it works

Doaa Abu Aesha is a 25 year old multiple sclerosis patient whose limited dexterity and muscle tone affects her day-to-day activities.

Doaa suffers from many symptoms that affects her every day activities and we want to help her achieve more independence. After meeting with our Need-Knower, we found that she has a hard time opening her pill bottles.

This 3D-printed bottle opener helps her open medicine and other bottles despite having limited muscle strength in her hands. It targets the number one difficulty with soft motor skills that our Need-Knower has, shortening the amount of time and the strength needed to complete the task.

This 3D-printed bottle opener has a graduated design which fits various sized bottles and allows the user to open them with minimal effort and movement. It can also be detached from the table to be used handheld.

Tools needed

PC or MAC I7 +

FDM Printer

Project details

The build files for Table Mounted Bottle Opener are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.

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