Motor

Electricity, magnets, wires, they all come together to make up many of the world's major running motors that make our cars and small home appliances work.
I made a scaled motor that uses the voltage discharge of a TV when flicked on and off, aluminum foil, wires, cardboard, a ball-point pen and two soda cans.

This is how it looked like:

This following video will explain how it is set up and how it works, just click on the link!:

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Props to the crew at WonderHowTo for making this video!

As you can see, when the aluminum foil picks up the high voltage discharge emitted from the TV screen once it is turned on, the electrons travel through the wire down to the first can. The electrons begin to make the plastic cup turn by the transfer of Conduction. The electrons travel to the next can and is taken to a ground connection to avoid the overflow of electrons and eventual BOOM!