try making something without AI too, it will be valuable
koopuluri•36m ago
you're not a wannabe! you're an engineer! you made something awesome. wishing you the best :).
kbuchanan•32m ago
I didn't even know what a cycloidal gearbox was! Good work—you've kicked off an exciting career.
bunchy7s•28m ago
it is pretty cool, but posting your age + an (likely) AI project on hacker news is probably a bad idea.
zachlatta•20m 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)
callbacked•19m ago
you're an engineer by doing, whereas wannabes don't! very cool project
two_handfuls•13m 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?
cosmotron•8m 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.
WillMorr•53m ago