Today my son built an electromagnet and now we’re pumped!!!
(Edited)
I never thought I’d be so excited to build our own electromagnetic. My son had a school science project due and sent me off to the hardware store with a very short list of what to get.
Short length of copper wire
2 nails
Thank the Lord for generous hardware store staff who gifted me 2 nails and pulled a small piece of wire out of the workshop. It seemed a waste to buy a whole bag of nails and roll of wire. Whoop! We like these people.
So here’s what we used.
Equipment:
1x 1.5V AA battery
1x length of copper wire
Roll of electrical tape
2x nails
Pen knife
Pliers
How to build it:
- Strip the wire of its insulation - this was the hardest part
- Wrap the wire around the nail with a length in either side left over
- Tape the ends of the wire to the negative and positive ends of the battery
- Touch the electrified nail to the other nail and it will lift it up
How am I so pumped about this??
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