Project Renewables Arts and Craft

This is the project renewables arts and crafts topics we will be exploring in this summer camp. Crafts are subject to change.

1. Make a pile battery
   • Make a battery of copper and zinc with a grapefruit electrolyte and potato capacitor.
2. Make magnetic sand
   • Make sand with iron and ceramic, and using a powerful electromagnet to create magnetic sand.
3. Make a copper spiderweb
   • Make a web with copper wire and a four dowels. Weave a web that will transmit a current from a battery to an LED light.
4. Weave insulating rubber cover
   • Make an insulator with heat shrink hollow rubber string, cover copper wires and create an insulated wire that will transmit a 9-volt current.
5. Make grounding rod art
   • Make a sculpture out of hollow copper tubing and wire, that will also serve as a grounding rod.
6. Make a compass
   • Make a compass out of a tin jar with a tight plastic lid. Fill with alcohol with a magnetized iron brad on a floating cork.
7. Make iron filings from dirt
   • Make an iron sieve for dry dirt and a powerful electromagnet. Create art on a paper plate.
8. Make a bus fuze art pendant
   • Make a fuze from LEGOs and copper wire and hot glue.
9. Make a spinning top generator
   • Make a magnetic base and a steel top that can power the oscillating top.
10. Make a 9-volt horn
    • Make a horn from a 3D Printed horn and a 9-volt battery created with two AAA batteries and a copper connector.
11. Make a 6-volt flashlight
    • Make a 6-volt battery with four D-Cell batteries and a copper and zinc connector. Attach the “battery” to an DC LED lamp.
12. Make an ionizing water well
    • Make a 1 Quart jar water well with marbles and ball bearings that have been sterilized in alcohol. Set the jar on a speaker and fill with water to create sonic pulses that will pull heavy impurities to the bottom.
13. Make a 6-volt telegraph
    • Make 2 6-volt battery with four D-Cell batteries and connect them with a metal switch and bit of wire. Send messages from one telegraph to another.
14. Make a simple motor
    • Make a motor by rewiring a motor armature and attaching it to a 12-volt battery to induce an induction current.
15. Make a decorative fan
    • Make a Savonius wind turbine that will spin with a persistent image that must be created.
16. Make a cinema reel
    • Make a comic strip that will be applied to a spinning wheel. While the wheel spins a persistent image will appear.
17. Make a motorized spin art
    • Make a spinning disk and spin it up, powered by a six-volt battery. Apply paints and dyes to create art as the disk spins.
18. Make a dimmer switch
    • Make a variable voltage switch that will reduce current in measured amounts. Use the dimmer to send messages as morse or binary code.