Solar Butterfly to Solar Car

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Channel: GrandadIsAnOldMan · 2014 · Science & Technology

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I was watching my Solar Butterfly garden ornament whizzing round in a rare bit of sunshine and thought that there must be something more interesting I could use it's solar mechanism for, so I hacked it into a solar powered car.

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