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Instructions for creating a remote control car

 

The following instructions are to be used as a companion and guide to a youtube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96D-DtAlPE

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CAR

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1. Create popsicle platform. Glue 2 sets of 7 popsicle sticks together.

2. Cut out hole for 1st engine. (through bottom section of popsicle platform)

3. Make the drivers for the engine out of paper circles and glue together. (6 quarter sized, 4 dime sized)

4. Take 2 small rubber bands and wrap around the driver.

5. Cut wheel axels from an ink pen casing and glue to popsicle sticks. (2 pieces)

6. Poke a hole in the center of your 4 bottle top wheels then push a wooden skewer through the first wheel. Then glue it to the wheel and cut off the excess.

7. Slide the skewer through the larger axel.

8. Slip on the paper circle driver.

9. Slide the skewer through the small ink pen casing.

10. Slide the skewer through the hole of the other wheel
    and snap and glue to the wheel.

11. Glue the driver to the skewer.

12. Glue one of the DVD motors to the top of the popsicle platform. (make sure the black knob of the DVD motor is next to the driver)

13. Lift the rubber band onto the driver on to the black knob of the DVD motor.

14. Cut a small square hole in the middle of the popsicle platform.

15. Create the front wheel assembly by first cutting another plastic ink pen axel, then glue an equal length popsicle stick onto it.  Slide a skewer through the plastic ink pen axel and glue on two wheels to each side.

16. Place the 2nd DVD motor through the square hole cut in the popsicle platform (Make sure the black top sticks through the hole)

17. Glue the DVD motor to the popsicle top

18. Glue the front wheel assembly to the black top of the 2nd DVD motor.

19. For the top covering of the car take a Fiji water bottle and cut off the neck of the bottle and then cut the bottle in half lengthwise.

20. Cut a hole in the half of the Fiji bottle that will be used as the car’s top.  The hole will be on the back left of the bottle. (Finish step 25 first to line up the holes on the car top and the popsicle bottom.)

21. Cut 7 feet of 4-strand wire

22. Connect 2 strands from the wire to the first DVD motor

23. Connect the other 2 strands to the second DVD motor

24. Glue the next about 3 inches of the wire casing to the popsicle platform.

25. Drill a hole in the back left side of the popsicle platform.

26. Slide wooden skewer through hole in the popsicle platform.

27. Glue the bottom of the skewer to the car and trim off the excess.

28. Push the skewer and the 4-strand wire casing through the car plastic body top hole.

29. Glue the plastic car body to the popsicle platform.

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REMOTE CONTROL

 

Cut off the tops of two 9 Volt batteries leaving the plastic and the positive and negative terminals.

1. Connect 2 wires (6 inches long) to the negative terminal.

2. Connect 1 wire (6 inches long) to the positive terminal.

3. Use the bottle neck cut off from Step 19 above and take a full Fiji bottle and trace a circle on the side of the bottle using the bottle neck as the guide.

4. Cut the hole drawn with an exacto knife

5. Use an exacto knife to make two small holes on two bottle caps.  Each hole should be large enough to push one wire strand through each.

6. Hot glue one bottle cap onto the hole cut out on the remote control bottle.

7. Hot glue battery tops between the two caps on the remote.

8. Cut a 2 inch by 2 inch bottom flap in the remote bottle.

9.  Pierce 2 small holes into 2 bottle caps.

10. Hot glue remote wiring.

11. Push wires from car into bottom flap of the remote. The 2 Steering wires (front of the car) go through the top of the remote.  The remaining 2 Power wires (the back of the car) go through the front cap.

12. Pull wires through the caps and hot glue down so that when the caps are twisted the wires from the car make contact with the wires on the remote.

13. Have fun with your hand-made remote-controlled car!