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Hi. I'm Scott for Expert Village and today I'm going to teach you how to make a compass
out of common household items. Now, we'll go ahead and take our needle and we'll take
it off the magnet. We are all done with the magnet, so we'll just put that aside. Now,
we have a magnetized needle. This is going to be really good because this is going to
give us our direction that we want to go. So we'll take our needle now and we'll take
our piece of aluminum foil and we'll place the needle on top of it. You'll see almost
right away that it's going to want to spin in the direction of North. You see it is turning
towards me and it's turning to that direction. So, you'll see that the needle is actually
pulling hard enough on this tin foil, that it pulls it to the side of the cup. So it's
pointing in that direction, which leads me to want to believe that North would be that
way and South would be that way. And, in all actuality, that is true because North is indeed
that way and South is indeed that way. Now, this is a fun experiment that you can do with
kids. Or, if you're actually lost in the jungles and you need to know how to go North back
to America or South, back down to Antarctica for whatever reason that you feel is necessary,
you can construct this in the middle of the forest with a piece of metal and hopefully
some sort of Iron ferrite. So, there you have it. That's how you make a compass out of a
piece of aluminum foil/tin, some water and a household a magnet. For Expert Village,
I'm Scott.