My Motor: Design Concepts/Findings

When I first started building my motor, I had a clear idea of what to make it look like. There weren't many design concepts I was considering because I had one clear in my mind. I knew what it was going to look like but I just had to make it work. 

While making this motor, I found techniques of doing things which made it easier. I also found that certain things made the motor better than others. When I was first making the field magnet, I just coiled the wire around and around but it was not very neat. Then, when I tried to put it on the base, it would not go on and work. I found out that I just had to take some of the wire off and make it neater to make it work and fit on the base. 

The electromagnet was challenging to make but I discovered ways to make it easier along the way. I managed to put nuts on the ends of the nails to make sure that when I wrapped the coil around them, they wouldn't stick together. If they stuck together, I wouldn't have been able to put the axle in between the two nails. I also realized that you had to wrap the coil around extremely tightly in order for the coils to be wrapped neatly together. I also had to twist the ends of the brushes in order to make them touch the copper better.