Rubber Band Powered Lego Car

Build batman s vehicle with this cool lego rubber band car for a book inspired stem project.

Rubber band powered lego car. Find out in this project where you ll build a rubber band powered car. Specifically it stores elastic potential energy. The technic gear lego reviews 29 792 views. Building this car is a great engineering project that demonstrates the power of potential and kinetic energy.

Plus it s even more fun if you can make a car go without just pushing it or by adding an expensive motor. It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest. My crazy action contraption. This month we were invited to participate in a storybook stem challenge series.

The title is self explanatory feel free to copy this emoji. Rubber band car duration. This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more. Rubber band car based on lego edu renewable energy set duration.

These come in lego technic sets or you can buy them separately from a lego store or online. Building a rubber band powered lego car 1. Although i had initially thought that i needed to choose a book specifically about stem i realized any book provides the same kind of opportunity for learning including our beginner batman book collection. This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time.

You will need some specialized bricks for this build such as bricks with holes in them thin rod type axles and separate wheel rims and tires. Background when you stretch a rubber band it stores potential energy.