The video below shows a thirty foot run would have been longer but the trans.
Rubber band car pictures.
How to make a simple car with rubber band.
Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side.
Plus it s even more fun if you can make a car go without just pushing it or by adding an expensive motor.
Long distance rubber band car.
This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time.
Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast.
Kids love building things that move.
On twisting the rubber band around the axle you are storing potential energy in it that gets transformed into kinetic energy when you let it go.
Because the rubber bands in this tricycle style assembly rotate in the same axis as the wheel it is possible to rotate the drive wheel dozens of times per rubber band.
A quick google search for rubber band car project yields tens of thousands of results so why reinvent the rubber band powered wheel the top results show cars with small wheels without traction or cd wheels which are difficult to attach to an axel both of.
Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast a quick google search for rubber band car project yields tens of thousands of results so why reinvent the rubber ba.
While you can certainly use a paper towel tube for your car i chose a sturdier tube that came from a box of aluminum foil.
There are lots of creative rubber band car ideas but you definitely need a rubber band and a way to wind it up.
The best rubber band car.
To make a rubber band car start by inserting 2 dowels through a cardboard tube 1 at each end for the axles on your car.
Your model car will use a rubber band as the source of energy.
Hence the more the winds of the rubber band the faster and longer your drive.
It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.