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Figured out perpendicular cam geometry. I was running into quite a few issues and managed to find a solution that fixed most of them. I pivoted from 6mm ID bearings to 32mm for the second stage of gears (the oscillating ones). I also realized that instead of moving the dog clutch directly, I have to mount another bearing around it with a 3d print mount. This not only allowed me to save tons of space, but now I only have to use one perpendicular cam because I can make the 3d prints 90 degrees offset, preserving phase. Here are some problems I ran into and how I tried fixing them:

  • The 32mm bearings were hitting, so I changed up the main geometry and will be alternately adding flange space on each side of the main plate. There isn’t enough space for 2 flanges to be next to each other, but there’s enough space for 1 flange and a normal bearing to be next to each other (0.1mm of space).
  • With my old design (screwing a sidways bearing directly on the dog clutch), I had to use two separate cams because the phase was not 90 degrees offset. However, with another bearing around the whole thing, I can change the angle to not be radial, making it exactly 90 degrees.

Looks like V2 will take the shape of a pentagon, and will soon look like a hexagon once I add the linear motion for the gear shifting mechanism.

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