maglev train

[ashutosh143342]

guys i want to make a maglev train. i have ring magnets.i have searched the net but good ideas are not there ,plz help me.
tell me some great ideas, links.

 

[CycloWizard]

I have a brother in sixth grade who did this for his science fair project by going to the library and looking online. There is plenty of information out there.

 

[herm0016]

you want it powered by the changing poles of the magnets in the track? or do you just want a little thing that floats?
if you want the powered on you have to build some software that will control electromagnets. if you just want it to float build a track like so\/ with one pole out on all sides of the track and the same pole on the train that has magnets on the sides to guide it and top to lift it.
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[f95toli]

If you have access to liquid nitrogen you can just buy some YBCO tablets, a strip of flexible permanent magnet (looks like plastic but contains enough metal to be ferromagnetic) and some coils to drive the train forward. Thats really all you need to build a superconducting maglev model train.

At the university where I used to work we used a setup like this to demonstrate superconductivity (and for the more advanced students the properties of type II superconductors).