How to Build an Electromagnetic Generator

A simple way to build an electromagnetic generator!

Materials: cardboard, bottle cap, straw, propeller, motor, led light, glue

Tools: pencil, ruler, scissors, xacto knife, glue gun

Make them all even, with smaller tops than bottoms. Use a ruler to help. Create and add your own cut outs!

The xacto knife is helpful for the cut outs. Save a piece for the base!

Glue each piece to the base and to each other (I used hot glue). Make sure they are touching on all sides!

Find a piece from the scraps that will fit on top of the stand. Shape it into a square and glue it on.

Any type of small plastic bottle cap will do.

Look trough the scras from the cut outs. Create 4 identical pieces, along with one square piece.

Using the glue gun, glue the short side of the pieces to the square. Make sure the sides of the pieces touch.

Glue the light stand onto the top of the bottle cap, alonging room for the edge to hang over.

Create a small hole in the center of the square backing. Insert the light into the whole, with the metal sticking out the back.

Cut a small piece of the straw off. Glue it to the axle of the motor, with extra hanging off.

Glue the propellor to the opposite end of the straw.

Glue the large part of the motor to the cardboard, with the fan towards the front.

Create a hook with the metal extending out of the wire. DO the same with the LED. Make hook each write a different leg of the LED. Make sure the legs do not touch.