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 ...

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 ...

If you have a high regard for the Caped Crusader, then carve out a few minutes in your day, gather some copper wire, an AA battery, and a neodymium battery. The result of your efforts will be a pretty ...

It’s easy to create a motor that can spin up to ten thousand revolutions per minute powered by a single battery. All it takes is a battery, a wire, a screw, and a circular magnet. You can build a tiny ...

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Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of magnetic materials ...