LEGO: The Balloon Car Project

The objectives of the project were to design and build a car from a mousetrap and other materials, the main goal being to reach maximum displacement, and to use the design to demonstrate a personal understanding of the principles of physics incorporated. While our car did move and function, it did not reach a distance of ten meters, a set goal. Overall the goals, while not met completely, were at least somewhat accomplished.

Have you ever been in a car accident? Well if you have, the egg car experiment could prevent this. With this experiment you can learn how to design a model of a car with safety. From wooden cages, to foam seats. This experiment is used to teach people the importance of a safe car.

This is called one of the most favored of all engineering projects ever done. Most kids like this project because they are hands on, get to get creative, and also get to work with other people, preferably the ones they get to pick, of course. They might also be able to show some hidden talents that they have and show what they can do to the best of their ability, also to get others into drag racing, which has become extremely popular in the past few decades, thanks to action movies and other things like certain toys. Also children get to be hands on like stated earlier, which often helps most people when they are doing something such as drag racing, which can give them a higher edge compared to others whom haven’t tried drag racing like the ones that have. I personally like racing and known for being an extremely competitive person, so I would like to design, create, and race my dragster in a drag race, which I believe that could be very supportive of jobs such as engineering science, also known as rocket science, so I personally would like to do this project for

Are you looking for something creative to do with young kids that they will really enjoy? There are an enormous number of ideas that you can use depending on what you want to do. Something that will be super easy to make with everyday items is toilet paper roll race cars.

In conclusion, my 1st car was a bust traveling 9.8 cm/s, my 2nd car did pretty well traveling 35.86 cm/s, but wasn’t built very well and lastly my 3rd car was the most successful, traveling 50.16 cm/s. Over the time that I worked on this project my skills really did advance. In the beginning, I was clueless and now, with the materials, I could make another car in a day. I learned a lot from trial and error.

Final Conclusion Entry The purpose of my mousetrap car design was to explore how far my car would travel with the laws of motion, friction, potential energy, and kinetic energy acting upon the car. I designed the car to be light and long, with the car being 45 centimeters in length, having a lever arm of 24 centimeters, and a mass of 82.3 grams, because the car would use more string to rotate the axle when the car is longer and less force would be needed to propel the car with less mass. I used 4 wheels congruent to each other with a diameter of 7.5 centimeters. I used rubber bands fasteners to align the car.

To start of with a positive note, what worked well with the balloon car was the lightness and actually moving. The wheels did turn- which was something I was not expecting and went in a fairly straight line. Now what did not work well was it has too much mass. Unfortunately the car did not go as far as I hoped it to go. Next time- if there is a next time I will make the body and wheels lighter. I also learned the more you blow up the balloon the less force it will exert. I learned many new skills and learned you can’t always accomplish what you hoped to achieve.

I was finished being created on October 28th, or at least that’s what my owners say. They took a foam piece and cut it out. They then taped two straws to the bottom of the box, and then hot glued two wood dowels in them. Then my owners hot glued barriers to stop the candles from moving to the side, but they could still spin. They then taped a balloon on the top. My wheels didn’t spin when I got tested, so they hot glued the straws to the foam piece, and un-glued the dowels from the straws. The dowels were loosely placed and the wheels were hot-glued onto the dowels. Then I got tested it again and the wheels spun nicely. I was ready to be tested. They set me on the ground, blew up my balloon, and off I went. At least that was what was supposed to happen. But instead, I just sat there. I didn’t have enough force or, I had a balanced force, so I wouldn’t move. Newtons is also a way to measure force. They took my balloon off the straw and tested me again, and off I went. They were so happy! I started out slowly, and then I accelerated faster. There was finally enough force to make it unbalanced against the air resistance. Overall there was not much friction that slowed down my car. When it rolled, there was no sliding friction. It had little static friction and

1.My assignment was to construct a mousetrap car. It should take from 4-5 days to finish, I finished it in 4 days.You could only able to use 3 pieces of wood, 4 CD, 4 pieces of rubber, 4 washers,4 axles,1 long stick of iron,1 string and1 mouse trap.

I have done many projects the previous year and some this year so far in Ms. Moore’s class about STEM. I have always gotten excited and have fun making projects that deal with STEM and drawing/sketching/drafting, and building. Like I said before, I made a bottle rocket last year with my team members and it was fun. I also made a bridge made out of k'nex pieces, we made a windmill, and etc., but we didn’t do a mouse trap car, which I was really looking forward to,

One project that is very enjoyable and can be done by people of just about any age is building small plastic model cars. It does not take a lot of skill to build one of these model cars but the more effort that a person is willing to put into the project the better the end result can be. The first model will probably not turn out as hoped for or expect, but with a little patience and some practice the ending results should become better and better. The building of a model car can give a person feelings of great accomplishment, which can help build up their self-esteem.

You don't have to spend a lot of money on mechanical changes, but here are a few things you can do to make sure the vehicle impresses the buyers and providers a smooth ride.

For my 20 time project I did two things. The first was that I made a sign. The sign was cut out from a big sheet of steel, and then I programed the laser cutter to cut out the sign with a little help. The second thing I did was fix my broken four wheeler, I did this by welding a piece that broke off back on. I had help from my dad's friend who is the one who owns a laser cutter and the welder.

The amount of power that the car is gonna have should be decide first so that a goal is set most people go for 400-600 hp. Then the amount of money that is need will be the next factor, 20,000- 40,000 is what most people spend on a build but also there have been people who spend less than 20,000. The amount of money varies with every person because of the car they buy and the amount of power they want. After finishing the build there are some way to make the car even faster would out wasting money at all and it's called weight reduction. All the thing that aren't necessary should be removed like seats, carpeting, and anything else the builder thing is unnecessary. Removing all this weight will make the car lighter so the car now will accelerate faster and take corner better. There are also some thing that should be added to the car to make it safer like a roll cage so if the car flips the diver won’t get crushed. Lightweight seats with a 3 point harness will help keep the driver low down in the car and improve the center of gravity. Down force is an important factor that help the car stick to the ground so it doesn’t flying off the ground, to increase a car downforce aero kit should be installed on the body to increase downforce at high

Place the white ramp like structure with slight curvature on the red rectangle, so that it covers the top of the small yellow rectangle and two circles of the red rectangular piece.