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| Magic Box Kit |
Subscriber Price $39.95
This unique DIY construction project blends electronics technology with carefully planned handcraftsmanship. This clever trick has the observer remove one of six pawns while you are out of the room and upon re-entering you indicate the missing pawn without ever opening the box.
Missing pawn detection occurs by one of two means, it is your choice: either by optical means through an optical fiber or by tactile means through the tingling you feel by touching the box's back hinges. Sensing is by hidden magnets within the pawns alignedwith Hall Effect sensors.
The kit has approximately 120 parts and comes with extensive documentation and excellent instructions and professionally drawn illustrations of extraordinary quality. See the favorable reviews below.
More Info. in our April 2007 issue
Includes an article reprint.
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Author: Nuts and Volts Reader Feedback
Letter to the editor
I recently completed the Magic Box as featured in your April/May edition and must say it was without a doubt one of the best projects I have seen in your magazine. Since I dont usually have all the spare parts, nor the time to gather them up, I usually opt out for the kit version and go from there. When it arrived I was pleasantly surprised to find all the parts, very well packaged in groups and labeled, rather than all thrown into one large bag like many other kits. The building instructions and documentation were expertly explained and diagramed. It was a real pleasure building the Magic Box and a blast watching people try to figure it out. I contacted Zonemasterskits.com to request a set of extra coke bottle pawns, and their response was immediate, and informative. I look forward to Nuts & Volts for just this type of project. I only wish all the projects were of this magnitude. Keep them coming.
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Author: Gary Ketch
This was a fun kit and the end results provided even more fun. I'm used to the old Healthkits and I dove right in without understanding that the hall effect switches and the tilt switch needed to be installed on the bottom. Obviously, once they were installed on the top side they could not be salvaged. So a call to the Magic Box guys was needed, and as soon as I said that I needed new switches, Vaughn knew exactly why. He sent out a new set without waiting to receive my payment, which I thought was great service. My suggestion to anyone planning to build the kit; learn from my mistake and be sure to plan to install the switches on the bottom, because during the final assembly, the bottom side will end up facing up.
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Author: Anthony DeRosa, Jr.
This is the kit I wish I had available when I was teaching electronics. This kit will inspire it's builder to pursue the "magic" of electonics.
The kit is top shelf, both parts and documentation.
The response from Zonemasterskits.com is fast and friendly if you have a question or problem.
I highly recommend this product.
Incidentally, with Christmas quickly approaching this would make a fantastic gift to give either completed to anyone, or in it's kit form to the up and coming electronic enthusiasts.
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Author: Donald Arndt
I want to share with you the fun I had building this kit and the hit it is with family and friends. I will say that you should read the instructions a couple of times before starting and to lay out everything to be sure you have in your mind how it's supposed to go together (2 or 3 pictures added to the CD that comes with the kit with major assembly stages would be helpful). I missed that the 6 solid state Hall Effect devices are mounted on the solder side of the PC board. Kindly, a response from the Magic Box Team got me 6 more quickly sent in the mail. I love that kind of sevice when I am building an electronic kit!
Now I am getting good at telling how many pieces are missing and their respective spots which amazes people. Wish the pattern for telling the location number wasn't a 1,5,2,3,6,4 (upper right to lower left) pattern, but it did not take long to learn it.
I would encourage anyone to build this fun kit and have fun having others trying to figure out how the trick is done.
Donald Arndt, San Francisco
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Author: Tony D
This is a great kit. I like many soldered my hall effect sensors in upside down. I contacted Martin and he quickly shipped my replacements as well as a new pcb in case I needed it. These guys are great.
Tony
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