Thames & Kosmos ANiMALS Operating Manual

EXPERIMENT MANUAL

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Remote-Control Machines: Animals

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GOOD TO KNOW !

If you are missing any parts,

please contact Thames &
Kosmos customer ser vice.

What’s inside your experiment kit:

1 2 3 7 854 6 9 10

11 12 13 14 17 1815 16 19 2120 22 23

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24 25 26

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Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off

No. Description Qty. Item No.

1 String, cotton (200 cm) 1
2 Joint pin 8
3 Small gear 2
4 Shaft plug 4
5 Shaft pin 4
6 Motor axle 2
7 Axle, 7 cm 1
8 5-hole dual rod B 2
9 5-hole dual rod C 2
10 Square frame 2
11 3-hole cross rod 3
12 3-hole wide rounded rod 4
13 7-hole wide rounded rod 4
14 7-hole flat rounded rod 4
15 Curved rod 4
16 90-degree converter - X 4
17 Flat triangle 4
18 Button pin 6
19 Eye pin 4
20 Two-to-one converter 4
21 Nose piece 2
22 Short anchor pin 1
23 Anchor pin 8
24 Small pulley 1
25 Anchor pin lever 1
26 Medium gear with 4 holes 4
27 IR remote control unit 1
28 IR motor unit 1
29 Plastic die-cut sheets (6) 1

R39-W85-200

1156-W10-A1R

7026-W10-D2R

7026-W10- H1R

7026-W10-J3R

7026 -W10 -L1W

7061- W10- Q1D

7026-W10 -S2W

7026-W10 -S3W

7026 -W10 -V1W

7026 -W10 -X1W

7404-W10-C1W

7404-W10-C2W

7404-W10-C3W

7061- W10-V 1W

7061- W10-J 1W

7128-W10-A2S

7061- W10- E2W

7128 -W22-2

7061- W10- G1W

7402-W10-C2D

880-W10-M1B

740 2-W10 -C1 D

7344-W10-N3S

7061-W10-B1Y

7346 -W10-C1B

7336-W85-A1

7336-W85-B1

7336-PP

› › › TABLE OF CONTENTS

Safety Information .................. Inside front cover

Kit Contents ............................................................. 1

Table of Contents ................................................... 1

Tips and Tricks ....................................................... 2

MODELS

Crab ................................................................................ 3

Orangutan .................................................................. 7

Tyrannosaurus Rex ................................................. 12

Penguin ....................................................................... 17

Pterosaur.................................................................... 21

Rabbit .......................................................................... 25

Elephant ..................................................................... 29

Scorpion ..................................................................... 33

Publisher’s Information ...........Inside back cover

Additional Experiments ...................... Back cover

TIP!

ou will find additional

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information in the “Check it

out” sections on pages 6, 11,

16, 20, 24, 28, 32, and 36.

You will also need:

6 x AAA batteries

(1.5-volt, type AAA/

LR03)

620373-02-210616

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Tyrannosaurus Rex

KEYWORD:
BIOMECHANICS

Biomechanics is the study of living
things and biological systems
according to the methods of
mechanics, which is the area of
physics concerned with objects,
forces, and movement. The models
in this kit are mechanical. They
certainly do not function exactly
the same way as the bones and
muscles of the animals they
represent. Rather, they are designed
to use mechanical elements to
mimic signature movements of the
animals.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

The T. rex walks forward or

backward on two legs, balancing

on one foot at a time. Notice how it

shifts its weight from foot to foot.

The large foot pads give it enough

surface area to balance on, so it

does not topple over.

The leg rods are mounted to the

gears via holes that are off-center

on the gears. When the gears

rotate, their rotary motion is

transformed into a linear, up-

and-down motion of the legs.

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Done!

Now try the experiments

on the back cover!

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CHECK IT OUT

Deadly Arachnids

Scorpions are arachnids, a huge class of joint-legged invertebrates called arthropods. All

arachnids have eight legs. There are over 100,000 species of arachnids including spiders,
scorpions, ticks, and mites.

LEGGED ROBOTS

Like scorpions, legged

robots are able to move

with the help of legs.

Usually, they have four

or six legs so they don’t

tip over so easily.

STINGER

A scorpion’s tail has six

segments. The last segment,

called the telson, has a

stinging barb on it. Inside,

there are glands that

produce poisonous venom.

The venom paralyzes the

scorpion’s prey which

primarily consists of insects.

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CLAWS AND LEGS

Like crabs, scorpions have chelae, or claws, on

their foremost appendages. They have four pairs of
symmetrical legs and a carapace — a large upper
exoskeletal shell. Like crabs, they have an

exoskeleton on the outside and muscles, nerves
and tissue on the inside. Scropions can move very

quickly to surprise, aack, and paralyze their prey.