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The physics of a scooter board

The physics of a scooter board

Introduction

Using a scooter board correctly in a Physics school room or athletic setting undoes the doorway to a kind of activities. The little, low-to-the-ground revolving board is a device for encouraging personal undertaking amidst prime school age children. Some are conceived with openings for use as manages for dragging or pushing. Always use correct supervision when educating courses with the boards. A glossy exterior eradicates numerous promise misfortunes while utilising the apparatus.

 

The physics of a scooter board

We contacted with Melissa Draper for the motorized scooter board project. This apparatus will be utilised by manyhandicapped young children, but desires to be conceived to the specs of one progeny in particular. We did not get torendezvous with him as he was missing but we got to sit in on a progeny who was alike to him in condition. They haveweakened power in their bears, therefore the entire motivation behind this scooterboard is to assist with the children's sensory impairment and to construct up power in their top body.

The scooter desires to support round 60 lbs. It desires to be round 5 feet long and not less than 16 inches wide. The scooterdesires to have some kind of harness to protected the progeny on the apparatus because of their need of top body power tocontain them on the scooter. Mrs. Draper demanded that the therapist have command of the pace of the scooter other thanthe children. It desires to be conceived in order that the child's heaviness move on his elbows controls the guiding perfectlywhile laying flat on their stomach. The progeny we set in could request roughly 40 lbs through his elbow on a heaviness shift. It desires to be reduced pace for the security of the children.

 

Design Specifications

The scooter board should be about 5 ft long and not less than 16 inches wide. It desires to be adept to contain a capability of about 60 lbs. It desires to be conceived in order that the forearms are to be aligned to each other. Safety is of paramountsignificance since the young children are incapable to defend themselves from falls. A little electric driven engine would suffice for the reduced races in which the therapists yearn it to travel. The rotating radius desires to be such that the youngchildren can maneuver through cones and distinct courses. The wheel groundwork should be broad for the security of the children. Ideally the engine would be adept to be controlled with a remote.

 

Design Concepts

We have evolved three distinct concepts for this project. The first is inspired by the conceive of a plaything renowned as the Rip Stik, which is alike to a skateboard but values caster wheels and a center pivot rather than of trucks. The secondconceive utilizes a mechanical lever and pulley scheme controlled by the elbows. The third values force feeling pads to propelan actuator to command the steering. All are three wheeled, flat board concepts (one in front, two in back). All use a rear-wheel propel chassis driven by a little electric driven engine, which would be controlled by the therapist either remotely or through a tethered command box.

 

Design Concept 1

This conceive is motivated by the Rip Stik, which is a kind of skateboard that values caster wheels in conjunction with an axially rotating board. These pictures display our inspiration, the Rip Stik, pursued by a hand drawn image of our conceive,then by a peak and back outlook drawing rendered in AutoCAD. This scooter will be driven by an electric driven engine with astring of connections and two sprockets to propel the back wheels, and is guided by moving one's heaviness to rotate the front half of the board and therefore turn the caster wheel.

Have one progeny use a cord or hula hoop to drag another progeny who is seated or lying (on his/her stomach) on a scooter board, retaining up on the other end of the cord or the hula hoop. Have progeny drag him/herself (using hand over hand movements) by a long leap cord joined by one end to a doorknob while seated on a scooter board with legs traversed and off the floor. Can furthermore have one progeny contain one end of a leap cord while another progeny, who is seated or lying on a scooter board, drags him/herself with the other end of the cord up to the progeny retaining the ...