Getting Started In Pinewood Derby

Follow Dash Derby on an adventure through the 7 easy steps to building your first Pinewood Derby race car. No woodworking skills are required for this family fun project--just patience and the desire to have a good time!

First timers and seasoned competitors alike can separate themselves from the rest of the pack with these speed secrets from an undefeated pinewood derby champ. Includes hundreds of photos and diagrams for making the fastest Pinewood Derby car in the race.

Provides ideas, tips, and patterns for making a sharp-looking, fast car to race in the Cub Scouts' Pinewood Derby.

Creating a pinewood derby car is a wonderful hands-on project for anyone interested in building, designing and ultimately racing your very own one-of-a-kind racer. This book contains over four years of scientific testing distilled into an easy-to-follow "how to" guide that will help fathers and sons achieve higher speeds and better performance with their custom-made cars.

Winning Pinewood Derby Secrets has taught thousands how to have fun building a winning pinewood derby car. It takes the reader through the car design and build process and then details over 40 race winning secrets that helped Joe and his Son win many Pack, Town and District Championships. Joe Gargiulo is an engineer and owner of Pinewood Pro that has helped racers build winning cars since 1999. He presents in a clear, concise and fun style to help first time racers and pinewood derby experts get the maximum speed out of their car to win their race. Joe presents many pinewood derby speed products and techniques that he invented and that have been proven, with track tests, to increase your car’s speed. Winning Pinewood Derby Secrets is revised every year and this edition includes the most up to date speed tips to make you the next winner.

Getting Started with CNC is the definitive introduction to working with affordable desktop and benchtop CNCs, written by the creator of the popular open hardware CNC, the Shapeoko. Accessible 3D printing introduced the masses to computer-controlled additive fabrication. But the flip side of that is subtractive fabrication: instead of adding material to create a shape like a 3D printer does, a CNC starts with a solid piece of material and takes away from it. Although inexpensive 3D printers can make great things with plastic, a CNC can carve highly durable pieces out of a block of aluminum, wood, and other materials. This book covers the fundamentals of designing for--and working with--affordable ($500-$3000) CNCs.

Given the high-tech world in which we raise our kids, this book is a pleasant diversion. Focusing on intangible life lessons, it teaches, shares, and strengthens parent-child relationships through building and racing a Pinewood Derby car. Dr. Packer highlights valuable character traits any parent hopes their son or daughter will develop and shares how to encourage those values through experience. But beyond all that, you will also learn how to build a faster Pinewood Derby car.

Ive written this book to make it as easy as possible to make a winning pinewood derby car. Most of the techniques can be done with simple hand tools. I wanted to come up with some new techniques that any child could do. I also came up with some new ideas that an adult can help with. I started working with my son on his first pinewood derby car when he was five. We went to the library and found some great books. A lot of the ideas are very advanced for a five-year-old, so we thought we could figure out some new ideas on our own. It took five years and a lot of trial and error, but he finally won a first place trophy in our pinewood derby race. Now we can share some of these ideas to help you make the fastest car you can. Other books cover a lot of details on every aspect of pinewood derby. We are trying to help with some more new easy ideas. Always check to see if your race has rules added to the standard pinewood derby rules that come in your pinewood derby car box. I dont want you to use some of these techniques and have your car disqualified. Finally, always read and follow the safety rules that come with the tools and machines you will use on your project.

"Contains material originally published as Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless by HarperCollins Publishers."--Colophon.

Join Kelly (a fun loving boy with Down Syndrome) and his plush koala, Professor Kelso, as they open the door to teach your child how to see value in others who may look or act differently - while displaying their similarities at the same time. Do you or your child have questions about Down syndrome? Great! This book also has a Q&A at the end for parents or teachers to use as a guide in answering those questions. Also, don't miss out on the FREE Kelly song, "I'll be there for you".