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Remote-Control Machines: Custom Cars Experiment Kit
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041129
Grade 3-AD
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Description
Use the pieces in this set in different configurations to create ten different remote-controlled cars, all with unique exteriors and mechanics. Car parts can be customized, allowing for high-speed race cars, high-power all-terrain buggies, or mid-range vehicles. This change is more than cosmeticthe gearbox in can be easily accessed and changed between four gears. These gears shift the ratio of speed to torque, allowing builds which emphasize either or a compromise between the two. Remote allows cars to go forward and backward and turn left and right.
The set includes all the parts you need to make a super car, hot rod, dragster, high-speed race car, off-road buggy, hot hatch, SUV, pickup truck, semi-trailer truck, and go-cart. Decals and auto body plates can be added to enhance models with an added air of realism. Includes an 80-page, full-color manual to seamlessly guide kids from start to finish. Kids can also create their own designs apart from those outlined in the instruction book. If you want to take the kit a step further, you can also explore how different car builds are affected by acceleration, drag, and air resistance!
Publisher's Description of Remote-Control Machines: Custom Cars Experiment Kit
Automotive engineering hits the fast-track with this kit that allows you to construct ten different remote-controlled cars. Build a fast race car that can speed across smooth floors and drive around the room using a precision steering mechanism.
Reconfigure the parts to build other vehicles, such as an off-road buggy that is optimized for power over speed, giving it the torque to overcome rougher terrains.
You can quickly shift gears from low speed and high torque to high speed and low torque by popping open the innovative gearbox housed in an easily accessible central powertrain unit, which also contains the IR receiver, one of the motor units, and the battery box. The gear train, or transmission, inside the gearbox has four gears that can be easily reoriented to change the gear ratio, optimizing speed or torque.
Build ten realistic models of different cars including a high-speed race car, off-road buggy, go-cart, pickup truck, SUV, dragster, hot hatch, semi-trailer truck, super car, and hot rod. Cool looking auto body plates give your models a realistic appearance, and decals allow you to customize your cars.
The IR remote control unit lets you drive the cars forward and backward, and steer the cars left and right.
Learn about the various components of real cars, such as wheels, transmissions, engines, axles, chassis, electrical systems, brakes, and suspensions. Explore the physics of speed, acceleration, energy, and aerodynamics.
An 80-page, full-color manual guides you through model building with step-by-step illustrated instructions.
Details
| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Thames and Kosmos |
| Grades: | 3-AD |
| EAN/UPC: | 814743012103 |
| Length in Inches: | 11.625 |
| Width in Inches: | 16.625 |
| Height in Inches: | 3.1875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 3.25 |
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