Making an Electric Circuit
You enter a dark room and reach for a switch to turn on the lights. In fact, most off the time, you don’t even think about it; you just […]
Easy Science Experiments
Electricity
Homemade Magnet
It’s not often that you can make something so complex out of such simple materials. Electricity and magnetism have been used by people everywhere to […]
World's Simplest Motor Version 2
Electric motors are devices that turn electrical energy into motion. They are remarkable machines that come in all sizes and do all kinds of work […]
World's Simplest Motor - Spinning Wire
Electric motors are devices that turn electrical energy into motion. They are remarkable machines that come in all sizes and do all kinds of work […]
Ice Tray Battery
You probably know that voltaic batteries come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, from tiny button batteries to car batteries to huge industrial heavy-weights. […]
LED Throwies
Graffiti Research Lab first introduced us to the awesome throwie idea, and we loved it. Ever since, we’ve been playing around with the idea of […]
Electric Cornstarch
You can do some pretty amazing things with non-Newtonian fluids, and the same can be said of static electricity. When you combine the two, you […]
Energy Stick - Testing Conductors and Insulators
The Energy Stick makes quite the “buzz” when you’re using it. To the untrained eye, it appears to be a plastic tube with a jumble […]
Floating Static Bands
By doing this research, you could end up in the company of people like Ben Franklin, James Watt, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla. Then there […]
How Much is a Kilowatt?
In an era of concern for growing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an increasing human population, and mounting uses for electricity, an old idea makes […]
Human Conductor of Electricity
Ordinary people use standard electricity from the wall to powera light. Oh, but not you! Why use normal electricity from the walloutlet when you can […]
Spinning Match - Table Trick
When you cautiously balance a matchstick on the rim of a coin that has also been precariously balanced onto another coin, it might sound like […]
Fruit-Power Battery
Voltaic batteries of all shapes and sizes are devices that convert chemical energy into electrical energy. You probably use batteries to power your cell phone, iPod, […]
Build a Light Bulb - Circuits
When you are conducting experiments and demonstrations using electricity, you’ll use the science of circuits. Amazing things are possible with circuits including alarms, radios, and […]
Microwave Light Bulb
We heard that it’s possible to actually make a light bulb light-up without any electricity. We figured it out.
Electric Pickle
**As Seen on The Ellen DeGeneres Show** You’ve probably seen the “Electric Pickle” trick in a science class… but did you ever stop to think […]