Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys

by Mike Rigsby

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Combining fun and interactive activities, this guide will have kids captivated for hours constructing fantastic racing cars with the basics of only rubber bands, cardboard, and glue. These simple instructions with templates allow budding engineers to gain hands-on experience as they learn not only how to build a basic racer, but how to make modifications such as aluminum foil axle bearings, steering mechanisms, hinges, cam shafts, and wheels made out of old CDs. This helpful resource has show more step-by-step instructions for making a basic rubber-band model, a railroad push-car, and a h show less

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Mike Rigsby is a professional electrical engineer and author of Haywired and Doable Renewables. He has written for Popular Science, Robotics Age, Modern Electronics, Circuit Cellar, Byte, and other magazines.

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Nonfiction, Kids
DDC/MDS
629.22Applied science & technologyEngineeringTransportation VehiclesCars, Trucks, Bulldozers, RVs, MotocylesVehicle Types
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TL237 .R54TechnologyMotor vehicles. Aeronautics. AstronauticsMotor vehicles. Aeronautics. AstronauticsMotor vehicles. Cycles
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