Our Car
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Our experiment was to see if we could transform a normal remote controlled car into an amphibious car. To start we put Glad Press'n'seal around the car, meanwhile Fraser measured the Styrofoam to put on the car. After we put the Styrofoam on the car we put the soon to be amphibious car in water and it floated. After that we thought about how it was going to move in water we decided to put wood paddlewheels on the back wheels. Once the car was ready we put it in a bathtub filled with water at Harris's house and tried to make it move in water, which it did. Here's the down side, some water got in the engine and the car couldn't move afterward. So then we took apart the car and got to the engine so that we could wrap it instead of around the body of the car, we ended up wrapping the engine in cling wrap instead of the Press'n'seal, after we dried the engine out it started working again and kept on going and it moved forward and backwards, but very slowly. Eventually we decided to double the size of the paddle wheels so it would move faster, and it worked ! For the finishing touches we painted the Styrofoam fire engine red to match the color of the remote controlled car part, to make it all the cooler we added some sweet stickers.
Here are some pictures of our car in the making plus a few of the finished product
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(there are 2 videos of our car at the bottom of the page, one of them is in water the other one is on land)
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