I was reading Boing Boing, and it pointed at a post on the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories website (motto: Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time) on How To Make an Electric Motor in 30 Seconds.
Materials needed picture from the website:
Time it actually took me to find these materials in my office: about two minutes, the supermagnets were hiding beneath a spindle of DVD-Rs.
My motor materials:
Here's their picture of the assembly, with the motor in action:
And here's me with my instant spinning motor:
Pretty cool, huh?
