Wheel Flippers

Hello. I have somewhat of an idea to start and designed the wheel and flipper already. However, I have no idea where to begin on recreating the flipper being smacked by the peg, but staying in place. Any tutorials or thoughts?
Wheel Gif

This might get you started. I used 2 bones, one has an Ik pointing to the target bone. The target bone is shrink-wrapped to the pegs (project + x), that gets the pointer to twitch on the pegs.

Don’t get too excited I still have not been able to get that final "wiggle before the pointer stops in the middle.

Instead of parenting the pointer to the IK bone I used a driver, I did that in the hope of working out the final wiggle but I have not come up with the solution for that yet.

I used Blender 4.0 so you need 3.6> to open the file (this can be done in earlier versions aswell)

Dial.blend (137.4 KB)

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