Another note to anybody wanting to use this as a teaching lesson. The video shows an arrangement using two stacks of 8x4x4 Buckyballs plus two on the battery for a total of 258 balls. This requires two sets of 216 Buckyballs at $35 each, or $70 plus shipping. The same effect can be demonstrated with just one magnet costing less than one quarter of a dollar (US). The lesson: don't assume the first solution is the best. Do some research. Look for "simplest electric motor".
If I might interrupt this thread of insults and spam to make two points:
Buckyballs are Buckminsterfullerene, a spherical molecule of 60 carbon atoms, named in honor of Buckminster Fuller because they somewhat resemble geodesic domes. In fact they more closely resemble soccer (ie, football) balls since they have a mix of pentagonal and hexagonal faces where the dome is entirely triangular faces. They are also a brand of small, magnetic ball bearings, which have nothing to do with B Fuller.
so now we edit the Autobiography of Malcolm X to remove all uses of the forbidden word? and all hip-hop songs that use it? or is it only forbidden when used by a white author?
Buckyballs are Buckminsterfullerene, a spherical molecule of 60 carbon atoms, named in honor of Buckminster Fuller because they somewhat resemble geodesic domes. In fact they more closely resemble soccer (ie, football) balls since they have a mix of pentagonal and hexagonal faces where the dome is entirely triangular faces. They are also a brand of small, magnetic ball bearings, which have nothing to do with B Fuller.
Isn't the wire spinning, not the magnet?