This is a playful as well as an informative toy which teaches children about energy in forms of storage and what happens when you release that stored energy in different ways.
Throwbot 'A' demostrates elastic potentential energy through a rubber band, whereas thowbot 'B' demonstrates kinetic and potential energy through a spiral torsional spring.
Explore how far you want your object to reach, get creative and become smarter!!
The exciting part about the toy is that the child could actually explore the projectile of the object ejected through the catapult by trying in various weights, twisting the spring harder to create more kinetic energy in the catapult for a heavier weight. Experimenting with the rubber band length to understand potential energy in terms of the position of the catapult. Two kids having the same set could play together and explore the lengths of this toy further by getting creative with their minds. This toy creates curiosity in the child about how energy relates to its environmental features. It can be expanded and attached to a box or even to one of the thingiverse car expansion sets to give it a movement. This is the easiest way for a child to play and learn about the basics of energy storage.
| makerstudio_10_holes1.STL | 301.6KB | |
| makerstudio_connector.STL | 71.2KB | |
| makerstudio_connector2short_verticle.STL | 66.3KB | |
| makerstudio_dowell.STL | 7.3KB | |
| makerstudio_long_stopper.STL | 74.1KB | |
| makerstudio_rollercut.STL | 23.3KB | |
| makerstudio_spring_thicker.STL | 76.4KB | |
| makerstudio_square_stopper.STL | 32.3KB | |
| makerstudio_triangle.STL | 439.7KB | |
| maketstudio_small_stick.STL | 7.3KB | |
| print_makerstudio_band_part.STL | 43.1KB | |
| print_makerstudio_spoon.STL | 364.2KB | |
| print_makerstudio_spring.STL | 76.6KB | |
| print_makerstudio_square_rod.STL | 7.9KB | |
| print_makerstudio_stick.STL | 7.3KB | |
| surface_ball.STL | 221.1KB |
