Electric Motor DAY~

Our Recipe For Fail To Work Electric Motors!!

Ingredients:  One Piece of Wood                     Thumb Tacks
                    Four 4-inch Nails                         Commutator Pin (Smaller Nails)
                    Axel Stick                                    Wire
                    Paper Clips                                  Cork
                    Pop Can                                      Magnet


Cooking Instructions:

Begin by hammering 4 nails onto the piece of wood, in a 6cm by 3 cm rectangle fashion.
Then put the Axle Stick in the center of the cork.
Put the two commutator pins beside the axle on one side of the cork.
Murder two paper clips and turn them into hoops.
Tape the hoops down parallel to the symmetry length line of the rectangle.
Coil the wire in the same direction with the full length of the wire around the cork and two commutator pins.
Insert the axle into the hoops and test spin.
Then cut the pop can into two small pieces of rectangles, these will be your brushes.
Sand both sides with sandpaper until your hand turns gray.
Place the two brushes so that one side is touching a commutator pin. Keep them in place with thumb tacks.
Mount the magnets onto the nails.
Add a dash of electricity through the brushes.
Watch the motor spin and go sparky sparky.


This is the results of our hard work. It ended up not spinning and going sparky sparky. We had a lot of recommendations from our fellow classmates, some being; the wire is not coiled properly, the brushes not being sanded enough, and the brushes and nails are too close to each other.


We will try all these ideas and hope that our motor will work tomorrow.
 Never Give Up, Fight!