Last week, we didn’t take any notes because an external guest came to talk about Croatia (we’re not really sure why, but that’s what happened). He was very friendly and gave us a website where we could find free gear models. That’s how we ended the session.

We started this session (08/04) by telling Vladimir that we didn’t know how to design the gear mechanism for our project. He told us to start a new sketch for it and to come back to him once we had something to show.

After going back to Vladimir to ask if our sketch was correct, he explained to us how gears work using a website called https://geargenerator.com. So, we created two diagrams on this site: one with an internal gear and another with only regular gears.

The main problem with this was that we needed to center the gear that will be connected to the hour hand. We spent a lot of time trying to solve this centering issue. In the end, we managed to get this result: