Lots of everyday items use motors: cars, fridges, washing machines, fans and vacuum cleaners. This doesn’t sound too exciting, but that is because we don’t see them in action. So here is a fun way to create your own motor and watch how a wire with electrical current acts in a magnetic field.
Up Next in TheDadLab
-
How To Build LEGO Maze - Simple DIY K...
My children love mazes and LEGO, so why not combine the two. It took me just a few minutes to make one using LEGO DUPLO bricks and ping-pong ball, and we were ready to begin the maze challenge! The curious thing was that after completing the maze Max (my younger child) was rebuilding it to make ...
-
How Fast is the Speed of Light | Star...
Ships in Star Wars often travel at the speed of light. But how fast is it really? If I could travel with a speed of light, I could travel around the Earth 7 times within one second. Light moves at the fastest known speed in the universe and here is fun experiment how to compare the speed of light...
-
How to Blow a Balloon Underwater
This experiment looks simple, but a lot of science is involved here. We are making a chemical reaction to change the combined density of our bottle with a balloon. That makes it float to the top with all the heavy weight of paperclips.
