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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.