ok I need to know how to make a moust trap car but it can't be made up of something that has it's own power source Please help!!!!!!!!!! I need to get it done before the 21'st to get an A or else I'll fail
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Use a wooded body. Large Wheels in the back like records and small wheels in the front. Also put the trap on the top of the car and rap it around a nail. (this was my 7 grade project I A it, we also  has to go a certain distance)\nThis web site has a mouse trap car kit you can buy http://www.mousetrap-cars.com/project-plans.htm\nAlso here are some instructions and supplies you can use like Cd's. http://www.geocities.com/hearne_jason/mousetrapcars.html\nHere are some photos of the cars http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Gallery/ms-car.htm\nHave fun and it doesn't take long it a Saturday afternoon project.
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Well, detailing the entire process here would probably be too in-depth.  May I suggest that you visit a local hobby store and ask a salesperson about a remote control car/boat kit?  This is probably the best way to learn and understand the principles first hand.   If you want, there are even kits where you can build your own transmitter and receiver.
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here's a website that probably can help you\n\nwww.howstuffswork.com\nif you can't reach it, just type "how stuff work" in yahoo search engine, you will find it, cause I forgot how the website call itself :)\n\nsorry
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i want to make a system that gets mounter to the passenger front bumber of my car, so when im stuck in traffic and some _hole feel he deserves to drive in the emergency lane, the laser will burst a hole in his tire, and give him a reason to be in the emergency lane.  Some issues with this system is the timing of when to fire the laser, how much power the laser would be.  You dont want to accidentally fire at the wrong thing, so these issues must be addressed first.  I think thats pretty innovative.\n\nwhilst working on my M.E. senior design project, my sponsor (an artist) wanted to make a dynamic hologram depicting a full COLOR rainbow..  Yeah, I know...  It made for great jokes the entire year.
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My grandfather had one of these.\n\nWARNING: THIS DEVICE WILL PRODUCE A LETHAL ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD, KEEP AWAY AT ALL TIMES. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR DEATH, INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE DUE TO MISUSE.\n\nThis is SOOOOO simple. You will need a steel rod sharp at one end and a plastic handle w/attached single insulated wire at the other. You will have to fabricate this. Wire must be 25 feet long and of 12 or 10 AWG. The rod will be 1.5 feet long.\n\nUsing a polarized plug, connect the single insulated wire to the smaller (HOT) of the plug prongs.\n\nDirections for use:\n\nAn area of about 10 feet from rod WILL PRODUCE A LETHAL ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD, KEEP AWAY AT ALL TIMES. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. UNPLUG THE DEVICE BEFORE APPROACHING IT.\n\nThe ground must be somewhat moist (not wet), best results are in the shade or cloudy day.\n\nFirmly push the rod into the ground at least 20 ft away from any building.\n\nPlug in the polarized plug into a socket for no more than 5-10 minutes at a time (this depends on ground moisture).\n\nAn area of about 10 feet from rod will produce worms in the time specified, if not, try a different location.\n\nClean and oil rod after every use to prevent rust. AVOID GETTING OIL ON THE HANDLE AS OIL IS CONDUCTIVE.
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usually the easiest way to get that kind of power is either\n\nturbo charging your car, or adding nitrous.  \n\nboth have its strengths, and weaknesses.\n\nalso both will need modifications on your car to make it \na. run right.\nb. run so your engine lasts.
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You need to just "bite the bullet", and get it into a shop!\n\nBeing so clueless as you are, you will destroy that toy!
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Well, I don't know what your car looks like, so I don't know if I can help much, but here are a few tips I've learned from working in robotics.\n\nIf your car is working sometimes and completely dead other times, then it's probably not the batteries.  But just to be on the safe side,  get some batteries that you know are fresh, and use those.\n\nDo you have access to a multimeter?  It's generally a little hand-held device about the size of a brick with a couple of probes on it.  If you have one, you can use it to check the wires for disconnections anywhere.  Look for an icon that's sort of like this: >|  Only it will have a horizontal line going through it.  That function will test for continuity in your circuit.\n\nWith regards to mounting the motor, if the car came from a kit, it probably has instructions.  If not, it kind of depends on what kind of motor it is.  If it has screw holes, you can easily bolt it to the body of the car with a simple drill and a couple of screws.  If that's not an option, a hot glue gun will work fairly well.\n\nGood luck on your project.
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my dear, hope u r big enough to under stand my answer.\nok i appreciate ur idea to conserve all the mechanical energy produced in a car, but the problem is c if the battery can run a car which requires 100w power that means the power delivered by the battery is 100w now that power is exactly sufficient to run the car but if u want to recharge the battery again u need 100w of more power which will increase the load on the same battery which is to be recharged. which is absurd. so my dear it is practically IMPOSSIBLE to manufacture a car of ur kind. hope u got my answer if u dint understand u go through it once again then also if u face problems do not hesitate to write to me ok bye.
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How about a caterpillar? Check the crafts dept. at Wal-mart. Use stryo balls for the body, just glue five or six together in a line,  which you'll need to paint of course, add pipe cleaners for legs, just use wire cutters to cut them in thirds and just stick them in and bend them down, then use the stick-on googley eyes that they sell, and add a colored piece of paper cut for the mouth, and two toothpicks painted black and stuck in his head for antenna. Easy, and uses 5 materials
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I have done this recently on a Ford Escort - the principle will be the same although the location will vary.  Best bet is to get a 'Haynes' manual from a car accessory shop.\n\nBasically the starter should look like a cylinder with a smaller cylinder attached along the side of it with a single electrical connection (probably a push fit type).\n\nProcedure (based on a location low beside the engine).\n\nJack the vehicle safely (if you can't do this or are not sure then stop now!) so you can get to it.\n\nDisconnect the negative lead from the battery so you the electrics are dead (you do know the code for your radio dont you?)\n\nOnce you find the starter motor it should be a simple matter of undoing around 3 bolts and unplugging the power connection the pull the motor out (the 'cog' sticking out will need to be pulled out from where it meets the flywheel but this should be very obvious just don't force anything).\n\nFitting is just the reverse of the above - make sure the bolts are tight and correctly torqued (the Haynes manual i handy for the right torque [tightness]) and the electrical connection is back on.  Refit the negative battery lead and you should be up and running.\n\nHope this helps :-)
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We would build a jumbo cart that could hold many kids and put lawnmower wheels on it or bigger wheels if we could find it and a bunch of us kids would hop on and some would take turns pushing it down the hill....it had a steering wheel of course -taken from a scrap car...and reflectors for that matter. Later on we learned how to put lights on it hooked up to a car battery. We built tree houses and my dad helped us run the wires to have electricity (we didn't have water though)lol We played a lot of ball games and if we didn't have a ball handy we would just use a 500ml juice box rinsed out and squashed.... condensed milk cans attached to a string made for a nice racket if you walked it down a bumpy rocky unpaved street...steel drums made for good 'pan' drums and I can play quite nicely on a good set of pots and pans thank you very much :-) I'm a girl but I was the biggest tomboy ever...I always thought guy things were more fun and toy trucks etc were pretty easy to build. (I designed and made a working car engine for a full size car at 16) Today kids are stuck in front of video games and don't use their imagination or get physical exercise nearly as much as we did. I don't know what intellivision is and I've heard of Atari but never played it-granted I live in a different country from you and also grew up in another country where there was no Atari etc.
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You can make a spiral using heavy construction paper! First cut a large circle. Draw an outline of a spiral on the paper that is slightly bigger than the toy car, then cut the paper.... you could then glue it on a piece of wood at the high end and then drive the toy down the spiral... I realize not much detail but I hope this helps you in the right direction
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I just finished helping my son with the same project. We used cardboard, gold spray paint, glitter, a small wooden chest from walmart as the sarcophagus, aluminum foil wrapped in gauze for the mummy. He used orange and red tissue paper on toothpicks as torches, cut up straws as the jars in the treasury room, and cut outs of egyptian furniture pasted to the wall. We used playdoh to make the outside of the sarcophagus and an old pair of earrings as the flail and staff. And finally I used some type of cotton material to make spider webs with fake spiders. We used mostly what we had on hand. Total cost of putting it together was less than $10 and my son got an A!!!!