Gear: Electric Motors

MakeZine is linking to these old plans for building your own electric motor. We made something like this in high school as a lab experiment. Lets just say that it didn't go very well for most of us. The plans we used were frankly pretty crappy and everyone had trouble getting them to work. In the end we had to make them work by altering the design as best we could. I think I finally threw my motor out when Amybear and I were busy trying to fit all our stuff into one apartment.