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How does a Pull-Back Toy Car work?

Jared Owen

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A pull-back toy car this complex? A look at the mechanism in 3D! This is sometimes called a "Wind-Up" toy car.
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See my blog post about this video: Patreon: how-does-pull-24042503

This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, you can change the audio track language in the Settings menu (click the gear icon in the lower right hand corner of the video).

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The toy cars in this video were downloaded from Blend Swap and I had some help for the others.

Sources:
http://www.exo.net/~donr/activities/P...
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-...
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4...
https://science.howstuffworks.com/tra...

Music:
Wild Pogo by Francis Preve

Made with Blender 2.79b (Cycles Render)
(I'm not brave enough to try the 2.80 beta yet!)

Here is some of the gear that I use for animation:
Graphics Card: GTX 1080ti https://amzn.to/2t70HN0
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20 Comments

@JaredOwen Creator 7 years ago (edited) Pinned

Watch more animations: https://youtu.be/f94CnlQ0eq4

@Liveforeever 7 years ago

You've just solved one of my childhood mysteries

@BoomYoutube 6 years ago

I thought the click was the car breaking, thats incredible

@aniketrastogi8868 6 years ago

Forget how airplanes fly, this little piece of engineering is so damn satisfying. So much attention to detail to make it work the way it should.

@240garchive 6 years ago (edited)

Car: clicks

Me: still pulling it backwards

Le me think:
If still pull, it will go more far

@racer927 6 years ago (edited)

Who else loves to wind these up and let the wheel spin? "VVZZZZZZZzzzzz..."

@ryancoopersnissan240sx8 7 years ago

Toy car: click click click click click
Me: still pull the car back

@NuhanHidayat 7 years ago

Seriously, your work deserve more attention! The animation is great, your explanation is also clear & simple 👏🏻👏🏻

@Taikamuna 7 years ago

These animations are so satisfying

@naeroforceofficial 6 years ago

My brain: i have to study
Also my brain: i must know how pull back toy car works or I’m gonna die

@Someguywithcatpfp 6 years ago

“ the front wheels spin freely they are not special”

My life in a nutshell

@Terra-Antares 7 years ago

Never knew even low quality Chinese made plastic cars had a failsafe.

@1003Alfred 7 years ago

I can see your favourite car is Lancer Evo X.

@technophile7024 7 years ago

I think by the end of 2019, your subscribers will reach minimum 5 million. Thanks for your great work.

@petetheweet 4 years ago

Can we all just stop and appreciate how smart you need to be to understand how all these things work AND THEN to make extremely detailed 3D animations to show the inner workings? Absolutely incredible!

@candidmoe8741 6 years ago

It's impressive how much ingenuity in that little motor. There is a lot of requirements solved with great economy of parts: fail save winding up, different gear ratios for moving forward/backward, auto-disconnect when spring unbound ...

@BranchEducation 7 years ago

Really great video & animation! I used to love playing with those cars as a kid! That's pretty cool where the clicking comes from. It's amazing how such in-depth design is done in such small toys.