I had a handheld battery powered Dyson V6 vacuum cleaner and after years of frequent use, the battery failed. Whenever anything breaks I always take it apart to see how it works. I took the motors out of all of the brush attachments and then I took the suction motor out of the vacuum hub. The suction motor is a …
Bananas are a very healthy fruit containing lots of vitamins like potassium, vitamin c, vitamin a, vitamin e and vitamin k, but did you know that bananas are slightly radioactive? Bananas contain high amounts of potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope of potassium that emits beta and gamma radiation. The amount of radiation that bananas emit is so small that you …
Batteries, in their simplest form, can be thought of as tiny fuel tanks that house a chemical reaction. This reaction generates power through use or self-discharge, during which the liquid electrolyte inside the battery breaks down and releases hydrogen gas. This gas creates pressure inside the battery, similar to how water expands. If the pressure becomes too great, it can …
I was looking for a place to store my AA batteries where they can not cause a short circuit and they are easy to access. When I was thinking of a place to store them I came up with an idea. I decided to 3d print a honeycomb shaped battery holder that can hold up to 25 AA batteries. I …
I have a 9v brushed DC motor that I used a lot. It was very fast so I decided to try to attach a small plastic fan cap to it to see how much air it can move. When I turned on the motor, it was not spinning and when I spun the fan to see if I could get …
Today we will learn how to make a battery powered light fixture. The supplies you will need are: 2 AA batteries (3v) High Power Star Shaped RGB LED 2 alligator clips Battery pack for 2 AA batteries If this is an RGB LED, you would have one positive connection and one negative connection for each color. This is a picture …
This is a very funny story about what the components of a computer do when you are not home. Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a motherboard named Moby. Moby was the king of all motherboards and he had many components that worked together to make him the best motherboard in all the land. One …
This post will be all about very funny electronics and robot jokes. Warning: These jokes might just be too good. These are the jokes: 1. Why did the resistor stop working? It was ohm sick. 2. What do you call a battery that likes to party? A cell-ebration. 3. Why did the resistor cross the road? Because it was LED …
