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Question by Lavender29: How to build a vehicle that will travel up an inclined wire powered by 1 electric motor attached to 9v battery
Overall mass doesn’t exceed 250g and vehicle must travel 2.00m

Some type of switch must incorporated to the vehicle so it can be turned on and off easily.

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Answer by Engineer-Poet
You need a motor, and some way to hold onto the wire.  You need some way of transferring power from the motor to whatever is gripping the wire to move along it.

A couple of rubber wheels held together by a spring would probably do the job.  If one has a gear reduction drive from a suitable motor, that’ll do you.  Some sort of guide to keep the device from veering off the wire, and a limit switch so it stops when it hits the top would complete the device.

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