engaging and disengaging clutch stuff..

[cowfish_29]

mm...i was sitting on the bus today and i thought of new fun thing to do...You might wanna go get your bit for reference..it makes perfect sense to me, but you might get confused.

Wouldn't it be fun to be able to get up to top speed, and then pop the clutch out and coast around turns, and then put it back in, and then accelerate out of the turn?

I think i know how to make it work...
If you take a look at a bit chassis with all the gears and motor in, notice the space directly behind the step down gear- being taken up by the motor clip/heat sink thing. This would need to be taken out and the motor would have to be secured some other way.

now, the step down gear is "sandwiched" between the axle gear and a wall of the chassis. What if that section of the chassis wall was moved in a little bit, (possibly made thinner too)? The step down gear would slide back, disengaging it from the axle gear. Bam...free wheeling.

but...how to make it do that?

I thought about how the steering works, with an elecromagnetic setup. What if you put a magnetic ring around the back of the step down gear, and fitted a little (smaller than the steering one) magnetic coil around the bar that the gear is sliding across? Run a current through it, and the gear pulls back. Turn off the current, and 2 tiny coil springs (something like the QFM springs, maybe even smaller) would push the gear back in place.

Now..the electronics of all of this. I have no idea. It would make the most sense to assign the boost button to pop the gear out, but i dont know even where to start on how to make it do that. I know there are some smart electronics people here, who can figure out where in the pcb board i would have to work, or what to build to make it work.

whew long post.

I really hope i get to try this someday...i need help though.