Science Toys
You Can Make
With Your Kids
Magnetism:
Magnetorheological fluids
A magnet in mid-air
Pyrolytic graphite in mid-air
The Gauss Rifle: A Magnetic Linear Accelerator
A Curie-effect heat engine
A Magnetic Ring Launcher
Electromagnetism:
An electric motor in 10 minutes
Fun with High Voltage
A 10 minute railgun
A 30 second motor
Electrochemistry:
A plastic hydrogen bomb
Building your own solar battery.
Building a Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
Radio:
A quick and simple radio
Building a radio in 10 minutes
Build a portable crystal radio
A radio out of household items
A simple AM transmitter
The Three-Penny Radio
Thermodynamics:
Simple heat engines
World's simplest steam boat
A simple rocket engine
A Film Can Cannon
A metal that melts in hot water
A room temperature liquid metal alloy
A simple solar powered heat engine
Homemade Ice Cream
Aerodynamics:
A Bernoulli levitation ball
A Homemade Vacuum Pump
A Classic Propellor Toy
Light and optics:
Simple laser communicator
Make a spectroscope from a CD.
Making permanent rainbows.
The impossible kaleidoscope
Make your own 3D pictures
Make a solar hotdog cooker
A solar powered marshmallow roaster
Biology:
Photography through the microscope
Video through the microscope
Listening to Electric Fish
Using a video camera as a microscope
Mathematics:
Kaleidocycles
A Geodesic Dome
Computers and Electronics:
A Computer Controlled Transmitter
A Free Space Laser Data Transmitter
Fun With Solderless Breadboards
A Simple 1 Watt Amplifier
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Science Toys
Make toys at home
with common household materials, often in only a few
minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific
principles.
To make it easier to build some of the toys described in the book
we have a
catalog of parts and kits.
Some of the catalog items are:
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Film Can Cannon kits and parts,
Piezoelectric Ignitors,
Cannon fuel.
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Super Magnets,
Pyrolytic Graphite,
Bismuth Shot,
Magnetic Levitation kits,
Gauss Rifle kits.
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Crystal Radio kits and parts,
Radio Transmitter kits and parts.
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Lasers, Lenses,
and Diffraction Gratings
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Metal That Melts In Hot Water,
World's Simplest Steamboat,
Happy Drinking Bird
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