My Rubber Band Powered Car

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There are many ways to build a rubber band powered car. But it requires some skills to build one that really goes very fast and very far. Here you can find the step by step on how to build a rubber band car that can go fast. It takes only a few minutes by using some recycle things in your home.

 

Step 1: Prepare the material

Wheels and Axle: Use the wheels of an unwanted toy car. The wheels come with an axle and a steering. You can choose to make your own wheels by using unwanted CD, DVD, or some round object that is able to function like a wheel. For the axle, you can either use pencil, chopstick, pen or the internal chamber of a ballpen. To make it more interesting, we only use three wheels to create a three-wheel car.

 

Car Body: For the car body, the lighter the better. It also depends on how you want to design the car. You can choose polyethylene foam or recycle items such as plastic bottles. You can also use marker pen or color pencil to draw some nice art on the foam to make it attractive. We picked a nice clothespin in this tutorial.

 

Engine: The engine is without doubt a powerful rubber band.

 

Tools: Prepare a pair of scissors, a pencil/marker, a ruler, a small knife, needle nose pliers, and masking tape.

 

Step 2: Attach the wheel

 

Attach the wheels to the body (clothespin) through the hole of the clothespin. You will see the car now is shaped like the alphabet “A”.

 

Step 3: Build the front wheel

 

I have all the details posted here: http://www.carsut.com/build-a-rubber-band-powered-car/

 

How fast it can go? Check out the Youtube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhJjDshjlQ