Glow String Shooter
- Grades 6-8
- Grades 9-12
Engineer a gravity-defying glow string shooter that’s part physics experiment, part art installation, and all awesome. Build the base, construct a set of dueling motors, and add a strip of UV LEDs to get glowing. Then fire up your finished shooter, and watch it make a loop of string stand up straight in the air! Explore momentum as the string curves around your hand, or toss a flying disc through the loop to a friend. Then learn about UV light — all while lighting up a love of physics and engineering!
From the desk of the product designer:
Behind the design
“We’d seen some DIY string shooters online that were pretty cool. To build an even cooler model, we just had to make it glow. First step: building up our glow know-how. So before we even started designing the shooter, we tested out our glow tech with a very basic prototype — a UV LED in a matchbox.”
- KiwiCo Product Designer
By the numbers
100+
DIY string shooter videos watched
6
String coils prototyped
41
Glow strings found around the workshop