Quarantine: Projects

In this quarantine, I've had time to make a handful of projects my favorites being:

DIY Galvanometer(battery tester)
DIY Balance scale
DIY Motor

DIY Galvanometer

My DIY battery tester was one of my favorite projects. The materials needed are in the photograph.

The completely functional Battery tester is down here:

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Gfo9sgmO250ahzpP3CtPzav-lfIFgTD/view

DIY Balance scale

The DIY balance scale project was actually fairly simple, but it's fascinating how it works and the math involved in it.

These are the materials used in the scale.

The setup is also fairly simple.

There's really not much of the project so ill just try to explain it. The idea of the scale is to figure out how much an item weighs depending on what the other item weighs and the position of that item, I won't show you the math because it's really not that intrusting, just take my word for it that it worked.

DIY Motor

The materials needed for the motor are pretty easy to find around your house.

Here I'm midway thru my project, the idea of the project is to make the coil of wires in the middle spin using a battery and a magnet.

The fully functional motor looks like this as you can see I had to change the coil, because the other one wasn't working.

Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_deO_mur4YFsPugz6kA1qVkb1BRiiqG5

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