Skates+by+Alejandra

//** Mechanisms: Skates by Alejandra **//



** 1) What do you like/dislike about your product? **

I like it because I think it's fun and I always wanted to learn to ride one. The trouble is that it is very difficult to learn, so I've never tried.

** 2) What is moving in your object? (add a video, animation, or pictures with the element that works when the object is moving...) **  The elements that move in my object are four wheels. The skaters always need the foot to move the skate.


 * 3) How are the moving parts joined together? (picture, text, video...) **

The wheels are joined by the axis, so that allows the wheels to move in the same time.

media type="youtube" key="-CSz23Yruzg" width="560" height="315" ** 4) What movement is produced? (circular, linear...) **

The movement that produce is circular.

** 5) Why are the moving parts used? (text...) ** ** 6) How do they work? (video, text...) **
 * Because, if a skate don't have any wheel, the skate isn't move. The moving parts are used to move the skate in different directions, forwards, backwards,etc ... One needs to use the foot to push the skate. ||

With the impulse of the foot, the wheels takes movement and the skate moves. This is one of the students of 3º A using the skate. media type="youtube" key="1diYZUGhHMA" width="487" height="281"

** 7) Curiosities **

The largest skate in the world: In the summer of 2011, Californa Skateparks brought the largest skate in the world to Camp Wood ward PA.

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** Other curiosite: **

U.S. military reported that their Marine Corps tested the skate in the 90s in urban combat. They said it was primarily used to detect wires and detonators movement in urban mines detonation inside buildings.

**__8.- Picture Gallery __**