Hamster Lego electric generator science project

[mzmmoh98]

Which magnet was used?

[AdMiRaLcHiCkEn4life]

if you add some other form of gears you could get enough power but i dont have a hamster so i caint tell

[mikeyb2k9]

LOL Awesome! :D I've actually got a syrian hamster called Ginger too :P and lots of lego xD you pondering what I'm pondering pinky? :D cool vid

[iMultiTheftAuto]

RIP

[selenagomezrocks319]

cute hamster :) I ♥ HAMSTERS!

[antyszwed]

we're all like hamsters (but different;)

[hudsonHwk02]

where is he going?

[Lurid95]

Rest In Peace Ginger...

Riggsgtx, Keep Ya Head Up! :)

[ponuryrybak]

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[Riggsgtx]

It's sad to note that infamous Ginger the Hamster passed away this summer. Let his life not be in vain, thanks to everybody watching him here. R.I.P. Ginger, you did well generating electricity.

[badbunnymarcus]

wow this is cool thnx i also wanted to do this for the science project and putting the rubber band over the wheel is a great idea! i will use it aswell!

[Riggsgtx]

@badbunnymarcus Thanks, glad you could tell it was a rubber band. You can probably also tell it's several tied together, those newspaper ones aren't very long!

[FishyButter]

What possesses these animals to do this for hours..? LOL

[CallinWire]

Hamster energy is renewable. And entertaining.

[darkwarrior396]

nice hamster!

[jhilker09]

So cool!

[Dienekles]

so thaaats how you eliminate surging. the smoother their ride the more fun they have

[raynald32]

what did you youse magnets plz tell me scince project

[alex123456789ander]

Just hook it up to your pc and off you go with being rich

[TheTubejunky]

@alex123456789ander ,

Yeah you've just seen your very first hamster powered cell phone charger!

[DasBrotmitFisch]

was bezweckt des bitte?!

[bartekligaa]

and wheels

[eth92]

I saw something like this in a cartoon you know :3

[TerrAkon3000]

lol

[luckynumber58]

a whole room, full of shelves, full of these...MWAHAHAHA!

[Riggsgtx]

@luckynumber58 Yes!!!  :D

[UFOMAN618]

Its ''the ham-trix!"

[EpicSqrl]

you could have made the wheel on the lego end of the string system a lot smaller and then you could have gotten nearly twice the efficiencey and probably been able to power the lightbulb you wanted.

[websitemakerjonathan]

hahaha

[Leheno]

THE CURE FOR THE ENERGY CRISIS!!!!

[TheKezz87]

hehehe omg thats soo cool....we could save loadsa money if we did those for reel lol

[tylenator552]

nice job

[shmahoogaligm]

I just made a lego generator. I love the annotions!

[verdemanthe1]

what about multiple hamsters on the wheel

[verdemanthe1]

I was hoping for more power

[CUCHIFREN]

Cool. Im goingto try it out!

[atomicnumber15]

Great video.

Instead of the losses due to gear reduction, can you not put the magnets on the hamster wheel itself and place the coils outside the cage?

From OtherPower and Make I see them making a simple AC generator on the wheel, instead of gearing the wheel to spin a DC dynamo...

Love it tho. 5 stars. Keep those kids interested, hamsters FTW (tho mice might be better workers in your kindergarten rodent matrix. :D).

[Riggsgtx]

Thanks. Yea, saw one like that, does look like a better design. We wanted this to be mostly the kids thing though, and pretty simple. My son's comment that was printed in the local paper: This experiment was a way to get my parents let me have a hamster. So no, mice wouldn't have worked, lol.

[atomicnumber15]

Haha! Keep up the good work. Its all about the fun of it all.

[chickenpoper]

yes.....you can but if you did it the way this guy did but with a speciall assortment of gears you could make the magnets spin like 4-10 times faster increasing the voltage.....but he didnt put gears so imagine the thing on the side that spins near the wires going alot faster

[aldichwalter]

Hey a gray handle why can u just spin it faster

[Riggsgtx]

Yea, that's how they generated up to .8 volts to light a blub, spin it by hand. But that wasn't the experiment! : )

[linkinpark9sc]

Nice idea lol

Add a thing to it to save the stored power, so that power is sent to the bulb only when enough volts have been stored. (Forgot how it works lol)

Also add a contraption of some sort which allows the hamster to earn food for his hard work :]

[Riggsgtx]

Good ideas! Afraid it's all disassembled now. Maybe for the next project, or someone else to carry on with.

[mannydeguzmanjartist]

You must install a sort of polarity protection, or you'll ruin your powered equipment if the hamster go the other way and the wheel turn was reversed, Lol!

[wurlymurl]

First graders?? how old does that make them (a uk tuber here)? 6 or 7? Wow..!

[Riggsgtx]

Yes, 6 and 7. They had some help from youtube, teachers and parents, but really got into the idea they had.

[EDukeeey]

Any idea how you made it?

[Riggsgtx]

If you have a specific question, let us know. They followed the simple electric generator instructions from youtube, the cardboard didn't work well. They're both Lego builders, so......

[EDukeeey]

Wow cool idea. Could have used a sort of cog device to speed it up

[sirkyar]

hahahaha nice!