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.
- Make a pile battery
- Make a battery of copper and zinc with a grapefruit electrolyte and potato capacitor.
- Make magnetic sand
- Make sand with iron and ceramic, and using a powerful electromagnet to create magnetic sand.
- 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.
- 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.
- Make grounding rod art
- Make a sculpture out of hollow copper tubing and wire, that will also serve as a grounding rod.
- 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.
- Make iron filings from dirt
- Make an iron sieve for dry dirt and a powerful electromagnet. Create art on a paper plate.
- Make a bus fuze art pendant
- Make a fuze from LEGOs and copper wire and hot glue.
- Make a spinning top generator
- Make a magnetic base and a steel top that can power the oscillating top.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Make a decorative fan
- Make a Savonius wind turbine that will spin with a persistent image that must be created.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.