skppo

By using the 4-wide diff you can actually make a similar gearbox using only two axles (input and output). It is longer and the diff makes it look kinda dumb but it narrower and symmetrical. Man, i wish lego would make those dark gray gears in diffrent sizes, would make gearboxes less of an hassle and more realistic too.

Hello to everyone on EB! I finally made the decision to join the absolutely smashing community of Eurobricks. This is my introduction. I am a 17-year-old guy from the oh so northern Finland. I've been building with lego all my life since my older brother had quite a collection all ready. Nowdays i build mainly technic since i'm so keen on mechanical and functional things but sometimes i do small system builds too. My other interest aside fom lego include playing various musical instruments like sax and piano. I'm terrible but it's for my own amusement. I also play computergames, Minecraft and Portal 2 being personal favourites(msg me if you want to play with me!). I wish to be an active part of this community and hopefully the feedback helps me to actually finsih some builds as they have a habit to be left unfinished... Keep up the good work Skppo (Skippper witout the "i") Sorry if my english has mistakes in it. (it is required by law to write this if your from Finland and try to write in english)

Ha! I just had the same idea a moment ago, though yours is much more simple than what i had in mind. My previous autoclutch was unneccesarily complex. This is just beautifully simple!

Little late for the party but... I think i understand what you are looking for. I made a simple "proof of concept" video about my completely motorized(one motor) solution. I has one big flaw: the motor needs to do a small backwards correction to disengage the diving ring and it can be quite hard if it isn't geared down A LOT. Basically it's an automatic clutch. Output is the darkgray gear in the middle.