Motors by Jayden

Anyway we learned about motors and we also built some them ourselves. We also built solar water heaters, but as of writing this blog post most of my classmates including me haven’t started yet…so yea.

            So this is going be more of a story than a description on building a motor, so prepare. I started to look at YouTube videos on building a motor, but I ended up using the first result. It first told me what stuff I needed and after the first two days I had everything except for cable clips, which is where it gets a bit more interesting. I decided to use my dad’s cable clips which what I didn’t know until he took them to school for me, was they were at least three times bigger than what the person on the video had.

            Of course they ended up being too big, I tried and tried to get them to work, but to no avail. Santi, my friend and classmate took some to school a day later, and they were smaller, but still were to big. Then I gave up and took the easy way out, which has another story. Ian, discovered this easy way out, It was a way to create a motor really fast. First you get a D-cell battery, about one foot of copper wire and two disc magnets. All you do is connect the two magnets on the positive side of the battery, then shape the copper into a rectangle and create a point pointing down. Then place the battery, magnets down on a table and put the point touching the negative and the other side of the rectangle laying against the magnets. This will get the copper wire spinning.