How to Make a Spinning Chair Theme Park Ride Out of Household Items and in Tinkercad

I made a spinning chair theme park ride out of household items

(In real life)You will need hot glue, medium popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, cardboard circles 2 12in in diameter and a smaller one about 6in in diameter, string/ribbon, a 9v dc motor, a electrical switch with wires, alligator clip wires, a 9v battery, a 9v battery connector with wires, cardboard box, 4 1ft tall x 1/2in diameter wooden dowels, colored paper(optional), a pen, a ruler/measuring tape, scissors, wire cutters/needle nose pliers to make cutting pipe cleaners easier, and masking tape. (On Tinkercad) you just need Tinkercad

First open Tinkercad and create a new project, name it Spinning Chair Ride. Then grab a cylinder and make it a little bit smaller than the build plate ( about 190x190x3) like shown in the picture and make it any color you want.

Grab another cylinder and put it in the center of the base and make it 40x40x180 (if you made the base 190x190) or you can experiment with the size and make it whatever color you want. Then click the base and the middle shaft and click the combine button on the top as pictured.

THIS IS OPTIONAL. Take one of the remover cylinders and put it in the middle of the shaft, then make the dimensions 24.25x24.25x180 and lower it until it is flush with the middle shaft and nothing is on top anymore. Then click the shaft and hit the combine button to create a hole in the middle shaft as pictured

Get a square remover and make the dimensions 25x18x75 and put it in the shaft as pictured and combine the shapes to make a square hole.

First go to the electronics section and get a 9V battery and put it in the center shaft as shown.

Go to the electronics section and get a normal dc motor and put it in the shaft as shown. Also click the battery, the motor, and the base + shaft and make them one shape.

Go to the sim lab section and get an axle connector and put it on the motor as pictured. Then go to the sim lab place and click the axle connector and put the settings pictured.

Get another cylinder and make it the same size as the base for me 190x190x3 and put it on top as shown and try to center it as best you can. Than go to the sim lab section and connect as shown

Grab another cylinder and a chair from the piece menu and make the cylinder 1x1x140 this will be your rope. Make the chair 5x5x8 and put it on the rope as shown and make a union. Then go to the sim lab section and get a pivot connector and put it and the chair+rope on the top as shown and increase the angle limit to 90. Then copy it 6 more times and put them on the top as shown.

Go to sim lab and click the base and click the button in the picture. Then press play

take your cardboard box and make the pieces shown in the picture. Top left 3”x3”with a half inch hole in the middle for wires. Middle left 2 3/8”x3” with a hole for your switch and then another 2”x3” with no hole. Top right left side 3” bottom 2” right 2” and the top should be about 2 3/8 of an inch mirror below it to make another one. Then make 6 1 1/2”x pieces for the chairs. Then cut them out.

Grab one big cardboard circle and 4 pipe cleaners and insert them as pictured and glue them on using your hot glue. Then glue 7 popsicle sticks in the center as pictured.

Get your colored paper and cut it up and glue it on in any pattern you want you can also add pipe cleaners to it for more detail. My pattern is in the picture. You may have noticed the gap in mine that is for the control box we make later.

Get a piece of masking tape that is about the size shown in the picture and about 10 popsicle sticks and place them on the tape with a small gap as pictured. Then put the motor on the side one and roll them tight but just tight enough so you can pull out the motor through the top but not have it fall through the bottom roll as pictured and add tape as needed.

Grab your 9v battery connector and 1 alligator clip wire and attach the black wire from the connector to the motor as pictured. Then re insert it into the shaft made in the previous step as pictured in the second picture.

Grab your 4 dowels and glue them to the motor shaft as pictured. Then glue the central shaft to the popsicle sticks in the center as shown in the second picture. Then wrap the top in more masking tape as shown in the third picture and use glue if needed. The other spinning chair in the background of the second picture is my old one that i am using for reference for this one.

Use your pipe cleaners and paper to decorate the central shaft but don’t cover it completely so you can still access the wires.

Grab the other alligator clip wire and connect it to the other wire sticking out of the 9v battery connector. Then grab the piece of 3”x3” cardboard with the circle hole in it and put the wires through as pictured. Then get the switch put it through the 2 3/8”x3” piece of cardboard, glue it in, and connect the wires as depicted in the next sentence. Red 9v battery connector wire -> alligator clip-> red button wire motor -> alligator clip-> black button wire. Next glue the other pieces of cardboard as shown. As you can see in the third photo I messed up the place where the button is supposed to go should be 2 3/8” not 2” so I changed that just now. Then glue it onto the base as shown in the final picture then stuff in the excess wire and decorate if you want. Finally connect the 9v and make sure the motor spins.

Grab your other big cardboard circle find the middle and put the motor through it as shown. Then repeat the first part of step 11 as shown. Finally glue your small circle in the middle of the big one as shown. Tip: put a blob of glue on top of the hole in the little circle this will help it spin better.

Grab the other six cardboard squares, you have six popsicle sticks, some ribbon or string, and your hot glue. Then bend your cardboard squares in half and glue to the popsicle sticks as shown repeat 6 times. Then grab your string/ribbon and cut 6 about 5” pieces and tie and glue to the popsicle sticks as shown.

Grab the chairs and then tape/glue them facing the way the motor spins the top. For me mine spins to the right which yours should to if you did the wiring the way I did in step 18 so I would attach my chairs facing in a circle pointing at you when they are close and pointing away when they are on the other side of you as shown in the picture.

Grab the top and put it onto the motor axle and turn on the switch and watch your chairs spin and go out because of centrifugal force. To add moor life grab two pipe cleaners cut both into 6 even sections and twist together as shown and glue to the chairs these are called Timbles pronounced Tim - bowls.