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Incredible work, thank you for sharing! The blue really pops so much contrasted with the red and yellow.

absolutely gorgeous. love it.

Wow. Everything about this is gorgeous.

This is incredible. The detailing, the fiber optics, the functionality, everything. I really just lurk here but i had to log in to comment on this. I really like that the bodywork isn't all panels/liftarms. It gives it a look somewhere between the technic sets of the 90's and 00's and modern stuff, which I'm a huge fan of. Thanks for sharing!

I'm really digging this.. good call on the system pieces.. my vote goes to yellow and dbg. itll match nicely with the liebherr and the lbg linear actuators will stick out a lot less.

I won't lie, I was doubting this module in its beginning stages. It has turned out to be a great success and a beautiful smooth mechanism. Great work.

Beautiful! Pure technic.

That's an incredible C model. Really looks even more polished and official than your Stralis.

really outstanding model. love it.

yes! It's a glorified subtractive mechanism. much easier to build and understand intuitively than explain. thank you for that lol.

If I go silent here and you want to mess around with this mechanism feel free to message me. In the meantime I'll try to draft up a better explanation for the whole thing.

Hi, a while back I created this thread about an idea I had for a Geneva mechanism using differentials. It had major problems with backlash though. I've created a new version: It's bulky and complicated but gives me hope that I can create another much more compact version. I don't even really know how to explain it, it's basically the mechanism in my previous thread but doubled, with the second mechanism running in reverse and pushing against the first. The first output has a ratchet so they push against each other, creating tension and minimizing backlash. The magical ingredient in this assembly is tension, so I believe it may be entirely possible with elements that have more slack such as standard diffs with gears etc. I'll be working on some prototypes soon. For now there's proof that it works and in fact works rather well. Unfortunately it's large and not at all modular (limited to a 5:1 ratio without completely re-engineering it) but now that I've learned what works I can experiment with variations and hopefully can find something more practical. I believe I am on the verge of a great discovery here.

Lol, this is fantastic! Looks so fun. When I get L motors I'll have to build one of these. Simplicity is beauty in LEGO!

what a marvelous B-model. Looks like it could be 100% official.

As a lego CAD noob, I'm finding stud.io to be pretty intuitive and i've been able to build a number of solid constructions including stuff at weird angles. There is a lot of manual adjustment needed, turning on/off collission constantly, but it works. The random snapping is annoying but can be mitigated by hiding surrounding parts from view. This is just what I've figured out from a few days of tinkering with it, I would personally love to know more. I do see people using flexible parts in stud.io but I have seen no tutorial on how to do it, nor have i tried it myself. Maybe later today I will mess around with that and report back.. An overall tutorial would be great though - there are surprisingly few resources regarding the program. I tried their discord but it is rather inactive. Edit: did find this. not much on technic unfortunately.