Hamster Lego electric generator science project

This is Ginger, who's part of 2 first graders' science project. He's running on his wheel generator. These guys came up with the idea and with a little help from their teacher and parents, got it to work. They wanted to light an LED bulb, but Ginger only got up to 0.3 Volts, it needed at least 0.6 Volts to light this particular bulb. There's elecricity there though!

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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!

[luckynumber58]

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

[Riggsgtx]

@luckynumber58 Yes!!!  :D

[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! : )

[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).

[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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