So using the process above one can make their very own cotton candy machine.
I then thought perhaps a dollar store handheld fan would be a perfect motor:
Take off the blades of the fan and then take an aluminum can and poke holes into it using an awl, or a drill if its something thicker. It doesn't need to be thicker.
Find a plastic bowl that you can use as a container to catch the spun sugar. Most manufactured machines come with a heater, but for DIY machines you don't have to have a heater, just have the apparatus by a stove and melt your sugar in a bowl on the stove and then pour it into the holey container.
Attach the fan holder to a piece of cardboard and test your apparatus!
Oh what glorious centrifugal force brings us! :D
PS: If you buy tonic water and add a little bit of it to the melted sugary mess you might be able to get glowing cotton candy. Tonic water has quinine in it which glows under a black light.
(I hope my mom has her black light bulb still)
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