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simply incredible. even at that size, i'm impressed by how densely packed it is with functions. bravo!

instantly recognizable.. excellent build. thanks for sharing.

what is this sorcery!? i'm at a loss for words.

this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen in lego. beautiful and functional. bravo!

looks great, i love the use of bionicle pieces :)

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.

Oh yes, that is what you like to see. It's looking truly beautiful. Functional AND studfull > studless forever and ever.

gorgeous. not much to say about these they are just masterful.

"We come from France!" Excellent, consistent and hilarious looking module. I would never have thought someone would use the basketball player legs for GBC. I love how simple and effective the mechanism is, great work.

Thank you. I'll look through that for a while to at least catch up and hopefully find what I'm looking for. I had been away from the project for a while and thought an axle hole would work, but upon further inspection it would need to be a pin hole as the axles need to rotate relative to the assembly they're sliding through. I can't use an axle joiner because the axles are "floating" and their range of motion is their entire length. Pic: At the end of their range, the axles are only inserted about a stud into the pieces that hold them. That's why I need a 3L space without grooves. Edit again: I realize now the design flaw that causes the thing to require a 3 stud hole. It may be possible to fix the root issue which would be much better.

I'm looking for a part that has either a frictionless axle hole or a pin hole without ridges. i need to route an axle through a 3L space, but at the end of its range of motion it's only about a stud deep into its housing so if I, for example, stack technic liftarms or bricks 3 in a row, the axle tends to get caught on the ridges in between them. it doesn't need to be a technic part, could be system as well, but i am woefully out of date on part knowledge. any help is appreciated.