Double pendulum early tests

The first experiment trying to push a double pendulum with an electromagnetic pulse resulted in two possible outcomes.

1. Both pieces of the pendulum lined up together and behaved very much like a straight pendulum.

2. The bottom half of the pendulum created enough backlash to slow down the top half. In this case, motion eventually stopped because the electromagnet did not push hard enough to overcome the backlash. 

For future tests I plan to try:

1. Push the top section of the pendulum with double the force

2. Push just the bottom pendulum 

3. Push both parts of the pendulum 

Of course none of these test will provide conclusive information because everything changes when the length of either section is changed or when the location of the magnets are changed. We'll just call this a good start.

Electromagnetic pulse pendulum

My first foray into adding electronics to a project:

The final project will not look anything like this,

 but it was exciting to get the electromagnetic pulse working as a prototype.