I decided to do a bit of research into their power and how it can be displayed.
I thought this site was pretty interesting: http://www.powerofpyramids.com/
I also did a youtube search and found this video which gave me an idea to move forwards with: How to make pyramid power free energy experiment (spinning, rotating, perpetual motion)
I didn't really like the use of straws but I decided to try swapping them out for kebab sticks.
So just using kebabs sticks and hot glue I constructed some pyramids to do some testing. I thought they looked pretty cool and was hoping they would turn!
On problem I had noted from the youtube video was that once the cotton had wound fully to one side, it couldn't un-turn. One way I thought about getting around this problem was to use little fishing spinners.
So with the spinners on them I tried using nylon on one, and cotton on the other.
Interestingly, for some reason the nylon didn't work with the pyramids and they wouldn't spin. The cotton on the other hand worked a treat.
One issue for the spinning was that the kebab sticks weren't very heavy and so didn't spin as well as the 2 metal ones I had. My grandfather had made some metal pyramids for my mum some time ago, and she was happy for me to use them as they would be my key spinning pyramids.
I wanted to make one quite large pyramid so got some doweling from Mitre10 to build a bigger one out of.
Making the base was simple enough but building the sticks to a point proved to be very difficult - hot glue was not sufficient for attaching the pieces and the nails were splitting the wood.
So I had to consider alternatives - maybe using a rope as the four points.
Side note: I found it interesting that pyramids don't have to have a square base - you can have triangles on all sides and it still creates the same energy.
