Two students building an electric car with Forward Education's Climate Action Kit
The build from Forward Education's "Autonomous Electric Vehicles of the Future" lesson

Using the same principles from the crash pad experiment, we will develop a method for testing the impact of an electric car’s crash.

Our Crash Test will:

  • help us understand how a car’s shape, speed, size, and weight impact the force of its collision
AI car sensors

Prepare

You’ll need the following items to complete this project:

Build

Build a car using the instructions from the Autonomous Electric Vehicles of the Future lesson. Do not include the Sonar component, otherwise the car will stop itself from crashing.

Building Tutorial

Once you’ve built an electric car, attach the CHARGE battery and the micro:bit from the Crash Pad lesson on the front (the car will have two micro:bits: one in the crash sensor, and one with the car code).

Micro:bit and CHARGE battery

Remember to plug your breakout board battery into a power source using a micro USB cable if using your project for more than a day at a time.

Code

The Car

Once you’ve built the car, download this code

Improve

Think about accessible features to add to your Water Recirculation project! How would you modify the sample code provided, or create your own code that includes the following features?