#Electricity and Magnetism

[historysurvivalguide]

Astronomy Inspired Design in Media: Part 13

Willow (2022)

Episode 1: The Gales

8-pointed stars are commonly used as a rose compass, with four primary directions (north, east, south, west) as well as the right secondary directions (north-east, south-east, south-west, north-west)

Compasses align to the magnetic field and can be created with the help of a magnet. There are three types of magnets: naturally occurring, manufactured, and induced

Some naturally occurring compasses are the result of magnetic materials like lodestone while a manufactured compass is when a material suspeptiavke to magnetic fields is magnetized. This can happen by rubbing wool on a thin piece of metal or cooling liquid metal in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The final kind of magnet is an induced magnet like an electromagnet. Electromagnets are the result of running a current through a wire. Moving current generates magnetic field and in then a magnetic field generated current. This is principle of electromagnetism (more information to build your own electromagnet)

“Astronomy Inspired Design in Media” is Wednesday (as I find them)

[wire-smith-crafts]

IT SPINS! Handmade electric motor! Entirely out of wire! They said it couldn't be done, but I have proven -- it merely shouldn't be done!

Photos don't really capture how ridiculously complicated this thing was to build, so I managed to film myself assembling the components too! Very proud of that.

In total, I've been working on this project on and off for roughly two years. This motor is my third version, though I went through something like seven designs of the commutator section (not counting how many failures it took to build a working example of a given design). I'm very proud of getting this to work at all.

Some close-up photos of all the components:

Six-way commutator. As the motor spins, this delivers electricity to only the correct pair of magnets at a time, leaving the other four off.

Magnet coils. I wound these by hand from very thin insulated wire. The center is a spiral of thicker insulated wire (darker orange) that protects the thin stands from the steel core and then wraps around the outside to hold everything in place.

Spring-loaded arms. These deliver electricity from the stationary frame into the rotating axle. They also have to hinge up out of the way or else there's no room to fit the rotor in place during assembly.

All the components laid out together before assembly.

And the full motor in all its glory!

[hangryshawn]

charmed + disarmed

[kaiserouo]

them making magnets

[stars-and-branches]

"he would not fucking do that" but its me reworking the fic im writing because I originally had Tim doing something early in the morning despite knowing full well that he would be honk-shooing it face-first into his keyboard for like ten hours instead

[space-gutz]

*coughs* hi hello back to our regularly scheduled program… here are some of my headcanons about fark!! i’m not an engineer so don’t come after me

[pas-si-fleur]

LOOK AT HER

Normal cat :)

[torithehoshi]

I thought about the Pokemon Sun Pokedex entry for Magneton, because it's one of my favorite dex entries and how a few times, I thought about it with HMS because - you know. Three of them. Although the general idea of drawing them as Magnemite and Whole as a Magneton was also funny so uh. Here.

This is the entry by the way:

Why does Whole suddenly become a shiny Magneton when they all evolve?

When Harmonia shines or something--

[reportsofagrandfuture]

[denkilightning]

Not Only Is Mother Mothering, He Is Not Fucking Playing Around

(im pretty sure this is the Only Time jay has ever created A Fucking Shield and i am besotted with the implications)

[collectorcookie]

they released the full body image for the outfits and i now get to roast murr on unsafe lab practices (<- worked in labs before). Explanation in tags

[bigassbowlingballhead]

the riot club has everything if you even care.

Josh O'Connor being homoerotic

Sam Reid in a robe

Sam Reid gay pining

Sam Reid smoking

Sam Reid severing cunt

did i mention Sam Reid

[stormyoceans]

THEY COULD HAVE FUCKED NASTY IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SHOP AND IT STILL WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS INTIMATE AND SEXUALLY CHARGED THAN THIS WHOLE ENTIRE SCENE

[kaiserouo]

i love him

tbh i think the lineart is better than the final result

[1introvertedsage]

This telepathic connection is getting stronger by the day.

It’s both exciting and terrifying.