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Desk drawer junk motor on BBTV

On today's Boing Boing TV, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder shows how to make a simple electric motor out of stuff you probably have in your desk drawer. This is the same project that was in the premier Howtoons column in MAKE Volume 01.

Mark's Motor/EcoNouveau Fashion on BBTV - Link

From the pages of MAKE:

Motormouth. Make a simple motor in minutes. From the column Howtoons. Read this article in MAKE: 01: Make Premiere, Page 172. To get MAKE, subscribe or purchase single volumes. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!

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Posted by: cmpalmer on October 16, 2007 at 6:52 AM

Another variation that I've had up on the web for ten years or so (and I haven't updated the page much in all of those years if you want to see what a website circa 1995 looks like):

Beakman's Electric Motor

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