Kids who love maths

Meccano is a model construction system created in the UK by Frank Hornby. It consists of re-usable metal strips, plates,angle girders, wheels, axles and gears with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces. It enables the building of working models and mechanical devices. To find find out more about what Meccano is: Click Here   If you want to find out about all the different sets: Click Here If you want to buy one of those Meccano sets you'll have to think about these things. Are you very creative? Are you willing to work hard to complete one of these hard challenges? I go pretty well with it(I think one of the reasons why I do is because my answer to both those questions is yes). So far I have built a complicated crane powered by a pulley and now I am starting to build a helicopter powered by both a motor and a pulley. When your building a model you may notice that there could be a few mistakes in the instructions so you might need to improvise a solution if you ge...

I came up with the idea of this new post when I started building an amazing elevator mechanism with my friend Alec. We made it because we were actually trying to build a bridge that was at least 10cm high and 20cm long but there weren’t enough bricks to use because there were 22 other people in pairs trying to achieve the exact same results, that’s when we came up with our new invention. Today I will teach you a basic way to make one gear go faster then the other just by the turn of a handle. Gears are basically wheels with these bumps on them which we call teeth. The bigger the gear the more teeth it has. To make the gears go faster first you need to have two gears, with one bigger then the other. Add a handle to the axle connected to the bigger gear and the add a handle to the other axle, then turn the handle connected to the bigger gear and you will see that the handle you are not turning will go faster then the one you are turning. Warning! Make sure that the tee...