Handy Dorceus Nick Bowers Project 4: Magic Trick Objectives: Create functional EV3 Machine that either performs a magic trick or aids in the completion in a magic trick. Program: For the program we used a while loop so that we could just run the program forever so that we would never need to […]
Proj 4: Magic Trick
Daniel and Jason’s Magic Trick
Our magic trick uses a forced card to make it appear that their card changed color and design. The forced card is then placed randomly back in the deck, while a duplicate with a different back is on the bottom of the deck. Our robot then shuffles through the cards, until someone sees the odd […]
David and Ahmed’s Magical Coffee Break
Our robot performs the magic trick of turning black coffee into “brown” coffee (milk mixed in). There are two wheels controlled by one motor for driving, another motor used to swing the arm in and out of the coffee cup, and a medium motor used to spin our stirrer. Another motor is attached as a […]
Chris and Justin’s Harry Botter
For our project, we decided to integrate entertainment magic and the illusion of moving objects. Our robot is decorated as a wizard, resembling Harry Potter. It is wearing a wizard hat and holds a wand in its right arm. We programmed the brick to play the Harry Potter theme song throughout the performance (wrote […]
Kevin and Lucy’s Card Trick Robot
For our “Robot Magician”, we made a robot that can perform card tricks Mechanically, our robot is relatively simple, it uses 2 motors and a ball bearing to move and turn. We built a card dealer out of the EV3 motor and various pieces which, in ideal conditions, allow us to deal out […]
Yeks and Liam’s Risky Adventure
We decided to try something risky with this project. By making our robot a dangerous machine to work with – as in there is a pocketknife attached to it. After being inspired by Scam School, we decided to facilitate the “Stab the Chosen Card with a Knife” trick with our robot doing the “stabbing” part […]
Chris and Kevin’s Houdini Bot 5000
For this project we created a robot that makes a coin disappear right before your eyes. The trick starts off with the robot moving forward and grabbing a clear cup with a tissue placed over it. The robot then moves this cup on top of the coin. It then releases the […]
David and Paul’s Geoff the Magician
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Geoff the Magician Our robot Geoff the Magician performs a disappearing ball magic trick. You place the metal ball in front of the robot and Geoff will make the ball disappear with its magic cup. Geoff lowers its arm, spins the cup for five seconds, and raises it, and the […]
Faizan and Adan’s Magic Trick
So for our 4th Project we have made a robotic cup machine that plays the traditional game of ball and cups but with a modern twist. The most unique aspect of this robot is the fact that the motor rotating the cups can itself be rotated around, which makes the cups really hard […]
Ashwin, Julia, Maxwell Duc Magic Trick
For our trick we made a robot disappear. We did this using two daisy-chained robots separated by a trap door. The robot below the trap door is holding the door closed. The robot on top of the trap door has a conveyor belt that covers it with the fabric. The robot then beeps 5 times […]
Jen and Thu Magic Trick
Design: For this project, we created a dog that performs a magic trick. The trick is that the dog “eats” a yellow ribbon, magically transforms it into a green ribbon, and then spits out the green ribbon. How it works: We had two motors, one medium motor at the back that would wheel […]
Magical Box – Taswar and Katie
For this project, we made a magic box. When you put items in the box the door closes, and the object magically disappears when the door opens. Then the door closes again and once it opens again the object magically reappears. For this magic trick, we have a secret door that is acting as […]