Mousetrap Cars

Building a car powered only by the spring of a mousetrap is a favorite challenge for American students of all ages.

Posted by Tormod Guldvog
26 October, 2007 01:10:00

It is not as easy as you might think! You have to take into consideration many aspects of physics, like gravity, friction, weight, and proportions, just to mention some of the challenging issues.

Surprisingly, there are few good online galleries of mousetrap cars. Most of the websites with great information are commercial, so we have tried to collect links to free, non-commercial web pages.

There are so many varieties of mousetrap cars that it is hardly possible to provide a "correct" solution. But the links below point the way to some great designs. Some of them even tell you how to build your own car.

If you have built a great mousetrap car, send a photo of it by e-mail to editor@hypography.com and we will put together a gallery.

Please help us improve the quality of this page by submitting links to project pages about mousetrap cars!

Related Links

Pictures of mousetrap cars
http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/mouset/fall98/index.htm
This page has great photos of mousetrap cars built by students at Billings Senior High, Billings, MT, USA.

Mousetrap Action!
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/ppoggio/ewebquest/frames.html
This is a small website with helpful hints for making a good mousetrap powered car.

Mouse Trap Car Construction
http://www.docfizzix.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?code=hypography&goto=/
This web site has lots of information about how to construct a great mouse trap car. Although it is a commercial site, it offers plenty of information for free

Ultimate Mousetrap Car
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5080/
The page reports about building a strange car that is claimed to have gone 19 meters.

Mousetrap Cars Helpful Hints
http://www.hmk.bpsd.mb.ca/Young/mousecars.html
A step-by-step guide to build your own mousetrap car, with great photos

How To Build An Ultimate Mousetrap Car
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5080/LabReport.html
A student report providing necessary steps to build a mousetrap car.

Instructions to build a mousetrap car
http://users.bigpond.net.au/mechtoys/mouse.html
A step-by-step guide, including a list of materials, to building a mousetrap car

Great Mouse Trap Cars
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Gallery/ms-car.htm
Mousetrap cars built by students ot Abraham Lincoln Digital High School, Los Angeles, USA.

Mouse Trap Cars
http://www.faribault.k12.mn.us/startpages/fms/home/team603mouse/
Shots of excellent mousetrap cars built by students at Faribault Middle School, Minnesota, USA.

Mousetrap cars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap_car
A brief page from Wikipedia with scarce information on how to build a mousetrap car. Some photos and illustrations