From a 5-year-old fascinated by magnets to a YouTube experimenter obsessed with pulse motors. Here's the story.
It started when I was 5 years old. I picked up a magnet — I don't even remember where — and I was absolutely transfixed. The invisible force. The push and pull. The way two objects could interact without touching. I was hooked.
Life happened, as it tends to do. I put the magnets away for about 30 years. Jobs, family, the usual. But that fascination never really left. It just went quiet.
Then one day I was browsing YouTube and stumbled across a pulse motor video. Something clicked. All those childhood questions came flooding back — and this time I had the tools, the time, and the internet. I built my first pulse motor on my kitchen table using salvaged parts. It worked. Barely. But it worked.
I started filming my experiments — not because I thought I was an expert, but because I wanted to document the process. The failures, the breakthroughs, the "wait, why does that happen?" moments. That became Papa Bale's Pulse Motors.
I'm not an electrical engineer. I'm not a physicist. I'm a self-taught experimenter who reads voraciously, builds obsessively, and shares everything I learn. If you're here because you're curious about pulse motors, magnetic induction, or DIY electric motor experiments — welcome. You're in the right place.
Honest experiments. Real results. No gatekeeping.
Step-by-step experiments building and tuning pulse motors, from simple single-coil circuits to more complex rotor designs.
Deep dives into how permanent magnets, electromagnets, and induction coils actually work — explained by someone who learned it the hard way.
I show the failures too. Science isn't just the wins — the failed builds teach just as much as the successful ones.
No fancy lab equipment required. Most builds use parts you can order for under $30. The goal is to make this hobby accessible to everyone.