{"id":106,"date":"2015-09-01T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicscientist.com\/2015\/09\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:25:00","slug":"how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puppetbuildingworld.com\/magicscientist\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a CD Hovercraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>How to Make a CD Hovercraft as a Science Experiment<\/span><\/h1>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image002.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image002\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1192\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image002.jpg?resize=225%2C168\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image004.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image004\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1193 size-full\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image004.jpg?resize=255%2C191\" width=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Hovercraft are absolutely brilliant and definitely a huge amount of fun &#8211; now you can make your own. You won&#8217;t be able to sit on it and ride  around but you will be able to have a huge amount of fun watching it  glide around your desk! You&#8217;ll learn a thing or two about friction too!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #08389a;\">What do I need?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Water bottle top<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Blue-Tac <\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Balloon<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Blank CD <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Roll the Blue-Tac into a sausage shape and press it down onto the CD,  in a circle. Push the bottle top down onto the CD so that it sticks to  the CD with no gaps for the air to escape.<\/li>\n<li>Blow up the balloon pretty full and then twist the bottom round several times (so the air doesn&#8217;t all come out while you&#8217;re attaching it to your hovercraft base!)<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Stretch the balloon over  the bottle top, untwist the balloon and you&#8217;re off. Try pushing your  hovercraft gently and watch how far it glides!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #08389a;\"><strong>What&#8217;s going on?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Why do hovercrafts glide so effortlessly? It  all has to do with friction, or lack of it! As the air comes out of the  balloon it spreads out under the CD so the hovercraft isn&#8217;t actually  touching the table but floating just above it on a cushion of air!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>WARNING:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t do this  experiment if you need to be somewhere, it&#8217;s impossible to resist the  temptation to have another go &#8211; it was for me anyway!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #08389a;\"><strong>More Fun:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image006-225x300.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image006\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sublimescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-to-make-a-cd-hovercraft_clip_image006-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Try adding weight to your hovercraft, maybe more Blue-Tac, how does that change things?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What about blowing the balloon up more, or less?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Can you find a way to extend your hovercraft, make the base even bigger, how does that change things?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div>             <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div data-style=\"\">\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Make a CD Hovercraft as a Science Experiment Hovercraft are absolutely brilliant and definitely a huge amount of fun &#8211; now you can make your own. 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