The 10Th of February is a big day because I am running a whole day event for 150 students in 6 classrooms, simultaneously building them as part of a STEM day I am running at a clients. This means getting all parts ordered and in stock, card pieces laser cut, info and building sheets copied and staff briefed. As with all my projects, I am going to base the building around a PowerPoint using Sketchup graphics and photos to show the stages. Backed up with a Students building sheet to build 'ON' and a diary sheet to record 'ABOUT' the day, that should be enough to keep them all going.
The one featured here rolls about 5 metres using the 500ml bottle of water. Replacing the wide wheels with CD's would give a very low rolling resistance and with string that unwound completely from the axle, should travel about 30 metres on a good flat floor indoors.
I am going to use very slight ramps to start it off as some built will be a bit 'sticky' with too much friction. Probably a sheet of polypropylene about 50mm high
This is not a new project, but I hope I have streamlined it enough that all the students can build it without too many problems, and that the non-specialist staff can assist them