The second thought was about all the wasted energy caused by the shaking. especially if you are supposed to add an inverted pendulum to assist the roation. the easiest way to stop the shaking would be to put a counterbalance of some sort. but instead of just putting a weight I came up with a way to put another linkage on the opposite side so that you could have two inverted pendulums that would assist rotation as desribed in the original invention but because they would move in opposite unison they would cancel out the shaking (if balanced equally). It will be tricky to mount the gears this way because a shaft would interfere with the linkages but i have two options i am working on to make it work.
realized the design i posted is technically wrong. the connecting bar would not be at 0 degrees on one wheel and 180 on the other...it is supposed to be long enough to go from one 0 on one wheel to 0 degrees on the other and when swapped the the counter roatation would be at different angles relative to there respective gears.
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