Building an Electric Motor

  For -Building an Electric Motor-this project, our task was building an electric motor and make the motor spin, when it connects the power supply. Firstly, we hammered the four nails in to the wood, the distance between was 5cm×3cm. Secondly, we made the Axel went though the cork, there are two pins place into the centre of the each end of the cork, we sanded the end of two side of the wire and we wrapped the wire around one of the commutator pins and around the cork, other end of the wire it wrapped around the other commutator pin. Thirdly, we used the pop can for the brush but before we use it we had to sand it all over perfectly and used the thumbtack to make it staple. In addition, we used two paper clip bearings to hold up the axel, and make sure it could spin. Lastly, we put 2 magnets, one on each side, and connect the power supply made the motor spin.