The Fast and the Spurious
You are asked to design and make a vehicle to carry a small object a linear distance of 5m in a target time of 30 seconds. The vehicle must move independently.
Materials
You may use any or all of the following:
- 4 Postcards
- A selection of elastic bands
- Plastic tube (old pens)
- 4 drawing pins
- Scissors
- Metre rule
- 5Paper clips
- 2 Cotton reels (or similar)
- Glue stick.
Things to consider
- How will your car be powered?
- What will provide the stability in your car design?
- How fast will your car travel?
- How quickly will your car accelerate?
- Why will your car begin to decelerate – can you redesign to avoid/ lessen this?