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Squirrel with Wheels

Experimental, Gallery, Outreach

Last night we had a gathering at the lab. Celina made a Squirrel from a kit that I had previously dropped off at her house.

I made her up some wheels out of some music wire and some wheels that were given to me by Lloyd Shales (airplane designer).

We got it to take off in the hallway. Wheels are pretty fun for indoor. There was constrained space as the larger rooms in the building all had activities in them. So the wheels make for lots of fun with just a hallway.

Some video will come forward as soon as I get through my camera video.

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Make wheels for your Squirrel

Experimental,
Wheels are fun!

You can make a set of wheels out of some .020″ music wire, 1/8th balsa and some paper. I bent and snipped the wire using needle nose pliers. I made the wheels by cutting them out of 1/8th balsa. I drilled a hole in the middle of each wheel. I made axle tubes by rolling up a piece of paper very tightly with craft glue. I then inserted the axle tubes into the wheel holes using craft glue. Works great! Check out this Squirrel with wheels! Another method is to make the wheels out of cardboard. I have also heard that you can make the hubs out of the shafts of plastic q-tips.

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