 Make your moments make a rocket ship Hi Makers, today we're gonna be making a rocket ship using the stuff you see here on the table and Bonus it's gonna move so you need a box maybe some scrap cardboard some packing material Hot glue tape something to cut with something to draw with a circle need to use for tracing some dowel rods or Chopsticks and a straw. It's gonna come in though The first thing you need to do is find your box and then cut it About the size of like a regular square tissue box something like that and then cut out One side because we're gonna be working inside the box and this will make it a lot easier to do And we're also gonna need to be cutting several circles and ovals So you want to make sure the thing you're using is the template will fit inside of your box now before we do that We're gonna poke a couple holes in this box that will be very helpful for our movement mechanism So we need one hole in the center ish On the top of the box. We need our straw to fit into it Now with this hole you want to make sure that it lines up with the other two holes And you'll see why here in just a minute Because it'll help make the whole movement mechanism work better. Get that in there. Yeah, see they line up pretty good Let's test it. Ah looks great All right Now we need to make some circles and some ovals I'm using this cup to trace and for your ovals What I did is I took this plastic cup and I squished it and then you have an oval And you end up meeting three circles and two ovals and the reason you need so many is because With the two that make up the movement mechanism thus ovals and the circles You want to double them up to make them a little bit stronger. So they don't fall apart or get all squishy So you take the two and you hot glue them together Watch your hands Put those cure up and if they don't match up perfectly or whatever they have all jagged edges You can trim them later with your scissors. Oh, yeah, I forgot one more circle Okay, now it does circle I'm gonna make our handle which we'll use for the movement And you can see here just get a little hot glue and a short piece of dowel ride And then I'm gonna put another piece of cardboard on the back Which will help keep some of the glue in there and also just make it a little bit more secure Ta-da, sometimes you need a little more hot glue Go for it. You can also do this with tape. You could do that with all kinds of different adhesives Now with the two circles that I glued together You want to put your chopstick into it but not all the way through just sort of on top there And you want to make sure it is as vertical as possible so that it's like a 90 degree angle one thing I did here is that I reinforced the top of the box because that is where a lot of stress is going to be the Chopstick that you see there will be spinning and if we reinforce the top of the box it will work better So if you're gonna reinforce it make sure you check your spacing to make sure that all works out good Okay, now let's put this oval which you could also call a cam wheel onto another dowel rod See that But don't glue that one on because we're gonna need to take it off and on a few times Now I'm gonna put in our reinforcement Get that there Awesome. Yep. Everything seems to work. There we go. That's the basic mechanism right there Okay, it's always important to do testing while you're making stuff like this So you know whether or not you need to make adjustments as you go along So I have a little piece of straw which I'm gonna glue in there and if you're gonna glue something thin like a Plastic straw with hot glue make sure you use a low temperature if your glue going has that kind of setting You don't want to melt the straw Okay, it's all lined up get a little bit of glue on there to keep it in place And this is really gonna help our rocket ship Move in like a predictable way. It won't like flop around too much Okay, now you want to put a rubber band on our oval wheel That'll help gives it some grip. So it'll work better Go put in the top piece first another piece and let's do a test run See it works All right now let's finish this up a little bit. Let's attach our drive wheel Our crank handle to the end of that camshaft We're gonna do the same thing we did before we're gonna Poke a little hole there in the middle. We're gonna add a little hot glue and then We're gonna do another piece of cardboard on the other side to help catch that glue and also help reinforce it I made my rocket ship out of packing foam that I had left over But you could make it out of paper out of cardboard out of a soda bottle You can make it whatever you want. This just happens to be what I had So glue it all together and the only thing is you want it to be able to be attached to your chopstick So there we go sits on top of the chopstick like that now. Let's add in the drive wheel Put the rubber band and let's give it a test There you go spinning rocket ship in space