Slow day at the office? Here’s a trick that’ll make your coworkers smile. Dangerously Fun has a guide to build a homopolar motor from a battery, copper wire, and magnet. A homopolor motor doesn’t rely ...

There are a number of examples of simple homopolar motors that rotate a conducting wire around an AA battery, but Magnetic Games took it a step further by attaching circular magnets to the ends of ...

We admit that this project doesn’t have very many details available, but it was just too neat for us to pass up. It’s a small linear motor which [ligonapProduktion] built after seeing a very brief ...

With a few common materials lying around the house and some creativity, you can make a working motor. So get imaginative with your wire sculptures and get ready for some scientific fun! In this week’s ...

For those that aren’t technologically savvy, a homopolar motor is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles. Mirko uses two magnets and a battery to create this amazingly simple motor.