Students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California designed the ultimate rubber band race car known as Cirin. They created it to compete in the school's Formula E Race. The car's mechanical layout was arranged using SolidWorks software, after which several physical prototypes were built and tested. Construction of the final version's body was sponsored by the 3D printing company SolidConcepts. The single elastic band that powers Cirin is wound into 8-inch loops, and runs within a carbon fiber tube between two bolts – one located at the car's front, and the other in the geared drive mechanism at the rear. That band is manually wound by removing the nose cone, and then held tight until go-time via a servo motor.
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