Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

zachlatta•about 1 hour ago

Hey, you should join Hack Club! I was just at an event where a high schooler designed and built a continuous variable transmission (https://outpost.hackclub.com).

You’ll meet a ton of interesting, friendly teens who are all helping each other build awesome projects.

Cool project!

(Hack Club is a nonprofit and I’m the founder of it)

tomilan•about 1 hour ago

I was actually looking to join hackclub, how should I approach it?

kaladin-jasnah•36 minutes ago

As a teenager that spent some time somewhat around Hack Club things, I felt that being a part of Hack Club pressured me to live live faster than I was ready to (like 16 year olds doing summer internships / cohabiting with their partners). I want to say a lot of the people I knew online on Hack Club Slack went to places like MIT, so I guess there's that, but there is some beauty in taking life more slowly. I also didn't want to be boxed into running my school's club with what Hack Club provided. I think they do good things (eg. Hack Club Bank helps students run events before they can financially) and I interacted with a lot of really cool people. But if it is anything like the past, I wanted to share this.

morelikeborelax•about 2 hours ago

Don't post your age on the internet :)

Project looks cool

welcomezhangjun•12 minutes ago

I built this because I wanted a better way to use multiple AI models during development...

eleventen•about 1 hour ago

You’ll certainly enjoy the “Not an Engineer” channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJJkZm796I

bunchy7s•about 2 hours ago

it is pretty cool, but posting your age + an (likely) AI project on hacker news is probably a bad idea.

callbacked•about 1 hour ago

you're an engineer by doing, whereas wannabes don't! very cool project

two_handfuls•about 1 hour ago

What is it? Is this like a gear, where the output shaft turns at some fraction of the input shaft? Is better or worse than traditional toothed gears in some way?

tomilan•about 1 hour ago

It acts like a gearbox, allowing you to sacrifice rotational speed for higher torque output. What makes this gearbox type special is their low backlash, multiple points of contact, and high efficiency.

cosmotron•about 1 hour ago

They're pretty cool. They can be good in situations where you don't want any backlash and lots of torque. I believe they're very popular as actuators in robotics.

koopuluri•about 2 hours ago

you're not a wannabe! you're an engineer! you made something awesome. wishing you the best :).

kbuchanan•about 2 hours ago

I didn't even know what a cycloidal gearbox was! Good work—you've kicked off an exciting career.

WillMorr•about 2 hours ago

Nice work!

ddlsmurf•about 2 hours ago

try making something without AI too, it will be valuable

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

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