Tiny+Spark

Ryan Orchard, Marty Berkheimer, Dailleon Ford Is it possible to make sparks out of homemade items?

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 We used a pie pan, thumb tacks, a pen, a styrofoam block, and a woolsock. When you rub the sock against the block it creates a negative charge. When you place the pie pan on the block, the charge is released to the positively charged pie pan. What you see is a spark of light. If you had a motor rubbing th block with the sock for a few hours, you could potentially, with a big enough block, generate a really big spark. It still wouldnt be anything like a tazer but it would hurt.