Mousetrap Cars: Video Gallery
Checkout some of the best mousetrap car and mousetrap racer YouTube videos. We have scanned through all the YouTube videos on mousetrap cars and have put the best ones we could find here for your viewing pleasure.
Weekend Project: Mousetrap Powered Vehicle!
Of course we love shameless self promotion when ever we can get a chance. This is a great video put together by Make Magazine showing your step-by-step how to build our very own Basic Kit mousetrap powered vehicle. This is a great reference video for anyone who is building a Doc Fizzix mousetrap car kit.
Doc Fizzix LiL Moe kit
This video shows the Doc Fizzix Little Moe kit in action. Little Moe may be small but it is a great little performing mousetrap powered racer. Little Moe is a small, lightweight, economically priced, and easy-to-build mousetrap powered car. Perfect for any first time builder, comes ready-to-assemble with pre-cut and pre-drilled parts.
Mouse Trap Car
A very nice video of a simple but nice mousetrap car traveling down a narrow hallway. This video shows the basic propulsion system from most mousetrap powered vehicle and that is a string attached to a long lever arm being pulled from a drive axle.
Mouse Trap Powered Car AMAZING FEAT!
One of the secrets to building a great long-distance travelers is gearing. In this video a mousetrap car uses large drive wheels so that for each wrap of string that is pulled from the drive axle the mousetrap vehicle travels the greatest possible linear distance. Most long distance travelers will be designed to maximize the pulling distance by using large drive wheels and/or a longer lever arm, this also causes the vehicles to be very slow moving.
Reversing Mousetrap Car
One of the questions we get a lot at Doc Fizzix is "how do you make a mousetrap car go forward and then come back?". This video shows a mousetrap car pushing a cup to a finishing line and then the mousetrap car comes back to where it started. The secret to making a mousetrap car revers has to do with how you wind the string around the drive axle.
Reversing Mousetrap Car
One of the questions we get a lot at Doc Fizzix is "how do you make a mousetrap car go forward and then come back?". The secret to making a mousetrap car revers has to do with how you wind the string around the drive axle.
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