Michael Faraday is credited with the discovery of the phenomenon of moving a magnet across a coil of wire to generate electricity, which is known as electromagnetic induction; he conducted experiments in 1831 where he demonstrated this principle using an iron ring with two coils of wire wound around it.
Printing up out first blade for the wind turbines
Motors We'll be using - Permanent magnet motors capable of producing 6 v
Using typical skateboard bearings to help it turn and makerspace supplies and tools
Different designs to choose from is there one better than the other? Children picked their own design - they primarily picked the same one with one exception. [simple works]
Exemplar ⚡💡
Working Together Year 2
Design and Build
Fiesty Foxes
6 Volts Maximum Power Generation ⚡💡
Trash pandas
5Voltz 🌩️
Dorito Bandits Group E
5V Power Generation ⚡🪫
The Bibbles Group E
First Attempt failed - Changed Fan Blade
5v maximum power
The Subaru's Group H
The Subaru's 6 volts max Generation 🪫💡
The Cheese boyz 🧀
5 Volts Generation
shaking platform caused energy loss 🪤
Power Puff Girls
First blade Design Failed
Second Design Success
6 V power generation
Group F The Chicken Nuggers
First attempt failed - base needs to be fixed
Success - 5V = shows our hypothesis the shaker the platform - more power loss ⚡🚨
Group H The Sponge Bob's
6v Maximum Power Generation - made a smaller base weighted and Stable
Conclusion: stability matters, the shakier the platform the more loss of power. Blade design is essential to getting the motor spinning. The bigger the blades the more efficient the generation.⚡