How to Build a Hovercraft: Air Cannons, Magnetic Motors, and 25 Other Amazing DIY Science Projects Author: Stephen Voltz | Language: English | ISBN:
1452109524 | Format: PDF
How to Build a Hovercraft: Air Cannons, Magnetic Motors, and 25 Other Amazing DIY Science Projects Description
From the Coke and Mentos fountain makers who found initial fame via Maker Faire and YouTube (more than 150 million views!) comes this collection of DIY science projects guaranteed to inspire a love of experimentation. Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, also known as EepyBird, share their favorite projects: a giant air vortex cannon, a leaf blower hovercraft, a paper airplane that will fly forever, and many more. Each experiment features instructions that will take users from amateur to showman level—there's something here for all skill levels—alongside illustrations, photographs, and carefully explained science. How to Build a Hovercraft is guaranteed to engage curious minds and create brag-worthy results!
- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1452109524
- ISBN-13: 978-1452109527
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
In the past, I have found that many science-project books for kids tend to focus first on the hard science and less on what excites most kids (and parents) about this stuff in the first place which is: OHMIGOD WE MADE A HOVERCRAFT AWESOME!!!! I'm psyched to talk about the science after the cool thing happens and explain why it happened, but the first job of any book like this is to bring the awesome and get folks excited. I don’t know why so many authors don’t seem to get this.
In this book, the AWESOME leads. We had the book for all of fifteen minutes and we were already showing Grandma how to implode soda cans on the stove with a bowl of ice (Grandma is always down for some awesome, bless her). A week later and we are about six projects in, with plans for knocking off a few more over the weekend. We have already built a simple electric motor using copper wire and fridge magnets, a paper airplane launcher, a few optical illusions and the big one, this past Saturday- the hovercraft.
Building this hovercraft took literally only an hour. It used materials most people have ready at-hand: a chunk of plywood, some plastic, some pipe insulation (we had to borrow the leaf-blower from my neighbor) and a lawn chair. I paid exactly zero dollars to build this hovercraft (but I am now out of duct tape). We were off hovercrafting before anyone got bored or something else came up in the busy weekend schedule of soccer games, chores and other obligations. The neighbor kids came by to ride on it. We all brainstormed about ways to make it better and things to add (handles for carrying it back up the slight hill we were sliding down, a second leaf blower for more power…missiles).
So the book really delivers.
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