How Does Tinker Crate Work?

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Build a Bottle Rocket – Tinker Crate Project Instructions – YouTube

Tinker Crate is a box which comes once a month. Inside there is something to build. The first one I got was the spin art machine. It includes a Tinker Crate box, a Tinkerzine, a manual, and various materials.

On the side in the front it will tell you what you are making. The bottle rocket is awesome. It is a baking soda rocket. Some Tinker Crates are electrical and some aren’t but they are all cool. It isn’t just for fun, it is education. For example the bottle rocket teaches how pressure pushes things that can be taken out and the 3D viewer shows how mirrors reflect.

The bottle rocket has the water baking soda and  citric acid in it so it creates lots of pressure in the bottle that there is no space it has to push out and that is how the bottle rocket flies.

In each Tinker Crate the Tinkerzine sometimes has a project and it has the materials to do it. It has many projects. It has it’s own website and you can buy them from there but it won’t come to your house you will have to get it from the store.

It is really fun. The box is sometimes used for the Tinker Crate project the spin art machine uses the box. It may take a few days to build but it’s worth it! If you read the Tinkerzine there are lots of facts about the Tinker Crate and sometimes an experiment!

If the instruction manual is too confusing go to youtube and there are video instructions on it. The Tinker Crate videos are so much easier than the manual but if you get what it says you don’t have to use the video.