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zachlatta 2 hours 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 1 hours ago [-]
I was actually looking to join hackclub, how should I approach it?
kaladin-jasnah 47 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.
I built this because I wanted a better way to use multiple AI models during development...
bunchy7s 2 hours ago [-]
it is pretty cool, but posting your age + an (likely) AI project on hacker news is probably a bad idea.
callbacked 2 hours ago [-]
you're an engineer by doing, whereas wannabes don't! very cool project
two_handfuls 1 hours 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 1 hours 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 1 hours 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 2 hours ago [-]
you're not a wannabe! you're an engineer! you made something awesome. wishing you the best :).
kbuchanan 2 hours ago [-]
I didn't even know what a cycloidal gearbox was! Good work—you've kicked off an exciting career.
WillMorr 2 hours ago [-]
Nice work!
ddlsmurf 2 hours ago [-]
try making something without AI too, it will be valuable
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)
Project looks cool