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

cycloidal designs are a great thing to have actually built rather than just read about. the eccentric motion is easy to follow on paper and then surprisingly fiddly once real tolerances show up.

two things worth measuring if you have not: backlash, and how much it changes after a few hundred cycles. cycloidal drives are usually sold on low backlash, so knowing your real number turns this from a nice print into something you can quote a spec for. if you have a way to load the output shaft, efficiency under load is the other number people will ask about.

Don't post your age on the internet :)

Project looks cool

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

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

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