magnete bauen: experimentos con imanes fuerza magnética

Papa Bale shares a quick, curious build of a hexagon-shaped magnetic sculpture that moves and tries to stabilize itself using ring magnets pulling and lifting on a central disc. Resting on a pillow, it wobbles, makes noise, and spins when encouraged – a fun, messy demonstration of magnetic forces at play.

Key takeaways

• Ring magnets can both lift and pull depending on orientation, creating dynamic movement in a sculpture
• The setup wobbles and gets off-center easily because the two sandwiched discs have misaligned holes
• Even with significant weight, magnetic energy keeps trying to find balance and motion
• Simple pillow base allows the whole thing to move freely and demonstrate the forces
• It looks cool even if it's not perfectly stable – pure DIY experimentation

Short bench notes from the hexagon magnetic sculpture experiment: I used ring magnets arranged in a hexagon with a central disc setup where some rings lift while others pull. The whole thing sits on a pillow so it can wobble and spin. Magnetic energy in the central pole tries to stabilize the weight but it gets noisy and off-center because the two sandwiched discs don't line up perfectly. I gave the six-sided part a spin and it wanted to move while the other side was less cooperative. Not the best performer but definitely looks cool and shows real magnetic forces trying to balance.

Watch the full build and spin test on YouTube and join the workshop for more messy experiments.

From the spoken experiment

The following notes stay close to what was said in the video about experimentos con imanes fuerza magnética:

> okay um here's a little something that I tried out uh looks kind of more like a sculpture than uh anything else but it's it's pretty cool too it moves so let's give it a whirl now what you have here is these ring ones are lifting the way the disc is set up in these ones are pulling now there's a lot of weight here but I'm it's trying trying to stabilize see how it's wobbling making a bunch of noise and try to put some weight on it get more Force out of the force you know what I mean I don't know if I know what I mean so I mean look at that it's just resting on a pillow with magnetic energy in that pole in the middle let's spin the six because it looks like it wants to move the other one doesn't sound like it wants to move oh yeah sometimes they get off center because it's two DISH sandwiched together and the holes don't line up all the time so well I went back quite a few times all right…

Builder checklist

• Confirm trigger/sensor timing before chasing higher voltage
• Watch heat on coils and transistors during longer runs
• Record voltage and behavior at each change (one variable at a time)

Related on this site

• Pulse motor resources & glossary
• Start here if you're new
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• How to build a pulse motor

Related on this site

• Magnetic Levitation with Six Donut Magnets — Similar donut/ring magnet balancing experiment
• 7+ Minutes of Motion: Magnetic Disc Spinning With Just a Wrist Flick — Shows extended magnetic disc motion similar to the sculpture spin
• Donut Magnets — Outside Poles & Motion — Directly related ring/donut magnet orientation and movement testing

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