The Janke Family

Yearly Archive: 2015

Homopolar Motor

Henry’s GWA Innovation Fair project; Homopolar Motors. Science!

A Homopolar Motor is a simple electric motor that uses direct current to power rotational movement. It is called Homopolar because unlike conventional DC motors, the polarity of the magnetic field does not change.

Rockets!

When I was a young whipper snapper I walked in the snow, uphill (both ways), to the model shop for supplies and built my rockets from scratch. now they have these super slick kits. Awesome!