Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists

This illuminating guidebook will help young tinkerers and makers find creative ways to use cardboard boxes, sheets, and tubes in easily-engineered projects, including awesome gadgets, toys, games, inventions, and sculptures.

Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it’s the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering. A working kaleidoscope, a marble roller coaster, a robotic hand, and a wind-powered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the best-selling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the step-by-step photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3-D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have real-life applications.

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Design, tinker, and build your own outside-the-box creations. Using the science of engineering, you can turn cardboard boxes, cartons, and tubes into games, airplanes, robots, and more.

Learn the principles of robotics and animatronics!

Use audio and optical engineering to play with light and sound!

Make objects move with aeronautics and nautical engineering!

Harness energy to power your creations!

Design working machines with mechanical engineering!

Have some serious fun by mastering game design!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC (October 27, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1635862140
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1635862140
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 – 14 years
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 – 9
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.55 x 0.55 x 10.85 inches