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Electronic fire-free matchstick

Abstract
The electronic fire-free matchstick is such a device, in that, you have to strike the matchstick
across a matchbox and then the matchstick starts glowing. The project utilizes an inductor or the
matchstick and a hidden magnet inside a matchbox to achieve this feat.
To use the matchstick, one must have the special matchbox with the hidden magnet. The polarity
of the magnet is important, that is, which pole of the magnet faces outwards. The supercapacitor
in the matchstick has to be charged before the matchstick can be used. For that, we use a battery
holder to connect two AA batteries in series. The battery voltage is used to charge the
supercapacitor. After the batteries are connected to the supercapacitor, it may take some time for
the supercapacitor to charge fully. Once the capacitor is charged, you may confirm that by
measuring the voltage across the supercapacitor, which must be more than 2V for acceptable
operation of the matchstick. Then we can strike the matchstick across the matchbox.
The objective is to create a chargeable and portable matchstick that one strike across a
matchstick to light up. Like a normal matchstick, the electronic matchstick is supposed to light up
only for short duration.

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