Making a Magic Wand | DIY | Wizards Wand

[@RobertFeranec]

I am so sad, that youtube buried this video. And I had plans to create more videos like this ...

[@ted-3dotmov]

Will you be making more now?

[@RobertFeranec]

@@ted-3dotmov not sure. Maybe a different project.

[@RobertFeranec]

Being an engineer should not only be about working on serious and complicated projects. Do you remember when was the last time you had a lot of fun building something simple? I really enjoyed creating this. Have fun watching this video ….

[@metalafterlife666]

It's nice to read that. Keep up the good work!

[@p_mouse8676]

As an engineer I really like your other videos, but I can really appreciate these kind of projects seeing from you as well! Really fun to watch, hopefully you have more fun projects to share! :)

[@johnyang799]

This is something new, fresh and well made.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you so much John PS: It was a LOT of work to put this together, so it's super nice to read your words. Thank you.

[@OfficialPCBGOGO]

Wizard is cool if they are in reality. Your magic wand makes it real. Very cool!!! Loved!

[@kestrtom]

Hi Robert, the production quality of this video is through the roof! Very nice work.

[@TSRHelios]

Interesting video! Makes "dull" engineering fun and lively.

[@geckomaker]

OMG Robert!, good turn you gave to the content of the channel, excellent casting, good soundtrack and special effects 😂. I wish you much success my friend. I stay tuned more videos from you.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Stellar video, Robert! Looking forward to more project videos like these :)

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much Kevin

[@rayank99]

Im following ur channel for a while, you helped me learn Altium for my fyp at uni. This video is really different and I enjoyed it. Thank you so much Robert!

[@radman999]

Different style video. Really nice, Robert! Great production value too. Really impressive!!

[@romancharak3675]

Hello Robert. I designed this board by following your amazingly detailed tutorial series. I had to order the sensor separately, and was successful in soldering to the board myself. I learned so much in the tutorials, especially how to navigate MPLAB X, which was always a barrier for me. Sending you my gratitude for your hard work, time spent, and an interesting project. Merry Christmas from Canada!

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much Roman for following the tutorial. It is very nice to hear, that it was helpful.

[@edulchan]

That's really amazing, I'm still doing tutorial, but when I watch this video. I get excited to continue. Thanks so much.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you Eduardo :)

[@jebinsatheeshkumar]

Hi Robert, you are awesome guy and keep on posting new contests. Thanks for your efforts.

[@sergeybelyaev91]

Something, that engineers fear the most, is pretty girl says "Hi... here... here is the EMC test result of your board" 😄 Thank a lot for your videos, Robert!!

[@Christe4N]

That was really fun to watch. I can see a lot of work went into making that wand. It seems such a simple idea, right? And then before it all comes together it turns out a lot more complicated than it looked. But the result is great! Well done. Love the video editing too.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you Christe4N PS: Yes, even behind simple is hidden a lot of work. I had to keep telling myself - keep it simple, keep it simple ... no bluetooth and over air software update :D

[@Christe4N]

@@RobertFeranec :D

[@RandyLott]

Amazing video. It was the perfect length and it looked incredible. Next stop, movie hardware designer?!

[@p_mouse8676]

That ending is hilarious, haha

[@nickspace6230]

I made a wand with a button which triggered a multi colored auto blinking led in a epoxy crystal in the base/hilt and a bright white led on the tip. It was simpler in that there was no programming and custom pcb however the design challenges were similar because I used a small lipo battery and a bms module along with an ultra mini 5v boost converter. The button was between the bms and the boost converter to ensure no current flowed when the button was inactive. I wired in a small micro usb port and the wand was rechargeable. In short, you may consider making a rechargeable wand and even include simple bms circuitry in your existing bms, a 100 or 200 mAh lipo would be plenty sufficient (just ensure it has a slow rate of charge for such a small lipo). This might alleviate some of the design challenges of the removable and large battery holder.

[@derstrom8]

This was terrific! Loved the design, loved the build, and loved the storytelling! Nice work!

[@tile996]

Wow amazing content! I can see your editing skills really improved Mr. Feranec, Im sure a lot of time has spent while making this to a 10 min video

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much Tile. PS: I had help and it is very nice to see, that the difference is visible. And yes, to make this 10min video took a lot of time. Thank you for noticing that.

[@xhivo97]

This was amazing! I absolutely loved the video and the production quality was top notch. The wand looks like it's so much fun.

[@kentswan3230]

With the 3 access accelerometer, you have an extractable gravity vector which, when subtracted from the acceleration matrix tells you which direction is down and thus the orientation of the wand. This means that the spell activation movements can be independent of the rotation of the sensor.

[@RobertFeranec]

Yes, you are right, it can be done through matrix. The main reason why I use the dot was time saving. It was just super easy and it helped a lot. Initially we did try to recalculate the position of the board based on gravity (my son was playing with that), but it was more math and it would require more time to write the software for that small microcontroller to make the recognition to work reliably, so I just added the dot and it made everything much more simple. PS: Also, it makes it harder for people who do not know how to hold the wand to use it - so the wand will only work for the real wizards who know the secret.

[@makers_lab]

Great project Robert and a brilliant ending.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you Nick PS: You are the first one mentioning the ending. I was not sure if it's the same all around the world

[@magnocarvalho6413]

I really loved the new type of content! Keep up the great work! Congrats on the courses as well, well spent money! Cheers, man..

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much Magno

[@umpoucosobreconhecimentos]

Your channel is amazing. Thanks for making amazing videos

[@piyushcharpe5117]

Wow, this is amazing, something new from you. Loved it ❤️. I can see lot of work :)

[@PriyankBolia]

Yours was the only channel where I loved long videos, because it was very much descriptive. Are you planning a kickstater for Magic Wand, so much filming, scripting, co-stars, definitely not required for a high end tech channel like yours.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you Priyank. This was just a fun project. No Kickstarter. PS: I am very happy you like the long videos. That is very nice to hear.

[@juliorrsantos]

Hahaha amazing finish!!!

[@RobertFeranec]

[@EDGARDOUX1701]

Great video Robert!! Loved the unexpected end LOL!!

[@Nik930714]

A few years back i was in a Harry Potter themed escape room. The final puzzle involved finding a wand and finding the correct spells to unlock the door. We found all of the movements, but the wand was not registering them, except sometimes the first one. I found a button on it and was "sweet a button, it must boost the power or something" turned out it was a button for pairing to some other part of the system and i completely bricked the wand :D After the guy at the control room saw that we were making the correct movements, he let us out manually. After that he could not even get the wand to work at all. I believe that the batteries had died. This appears to be working a lot better than that one.

[@jeromembeche8907]

😂unexpected ... Thanks Mr Robert

[@lirovenator]

Enjoyed watching. 👍🏻 Thank you!!

[@zacharyspinks6207]

Now this is Amazing and Wicked!👍🏽👍🏽

[@yemreikiz]

Great project, amazing video! I like it.

[@Stormwinddragon]

😂The Ending! As a wife of an engineer, I can say it's true😂 This is how I met my husband.

[@RobertFeranec]

:D

[@SEto666]

Just Amazing!! thanks for share it!!

[@kaiqueryan8720]

Amazing!

[@valtersnelke8787]

Best fun project idea ive seen

[@andrewk222]

Wow Robert this is so coooool!!!!!

[@DanielPereiraCarvalho]

Very cool... Congratulations

[@srinathmishra9752]

Wow this is cool...I would certainly like to build one for me....Earlier I created a Digital Dice....liked it..

[@Hojadurdy]

Gandalf would be proud.

[@kopczas]

Amazing. Imagine make compatibile with Smart home electronics like lights and other stuff.

[@juanchoplaz]

I loved it! It would be really good if the batteries were chargeable via USB, so the user (let's say I give it to my nephew as a birthday present) doesn't need to unscrew the wand to change the batteries; just plug it in with her cellphone charger!! I think it may be a great idea, but not sure if it is easy to implement in your design. 🤔

[@Gemzstone1]

I want one with a taser on the end 🤣

[@Skibidi292oo]

it's so simple just buy a small high voltage generator and apply 3v on it to turn it into 400k volts

[@KevinStoriesTV]

Harry Potter inspired cool!!

[@Masudrana-vi7sy]

Love it!!!Thanks.

[@mateoarv]

I could get used to this kind of content!!

[@eljablirabie997]

I really like the concept, maybe I found it useful if you create a video for the 3d model of the magic wand. and I had fun watching the last part of the video 😂😂

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you el PS: I was thinking about creating the 3D video ... but I was not sure if people would be interested to see it. Let's see how this video goes.

[@gabrielph3477]

is this for sale? if it is, where can i get one?

[@RobertFeranec]

I gave them all away

[@siddharthmali5841]

Excellent.

[@christianchilders8556]

This is something similar to what I want to make. I want to make a wand that when when you flick your wrist the led flashes quickly kind of like the spells in the movies but I have no knowledge of coding or anything like that

[@Dragonmastur24]

okay but for real, if SHE said hi to me I'd probably faint too... then I'd show her my circuit I'm working on xD

[@cleric670]

Science is magic

[@leonardomacleod]

do you know where I can find the components that you used for this project? and what kind of battery did you use?

[@RobertFeranec]

did you have a look at the links in description? is something specific missing?

[@shubamthakur8604]

owesome.. :)

[@fpgaguy]

also try 70350 lipo

[@makers_lab]

Nice form factor. The lr44’s should have more capacity though and overall I’d imagine power it quite a bit longer.

[@flytothesky1910]

Awsome :)

[@truecross4090]

Making this and making it work with a Smarthome would be next level awesome. I can forsee selling Harry Potter homes to be a very lucrative market rofl.

[@vasylchopyk7689]

Some things new. Let's likes flow...

[@fpgaguy]

My first guess was the problem is that you used MPLAB

[@RobertFeranec]

MPLAB was a big issue in this project ... constantly freezing - especially during debugging.

[@MaxWattage]

This was a good video. It's nice to see some videos for the beginner/maker, mixed in with your usual videos for professional engineers. However, the ending took me by surprise, and was a little jarring. [spoiler warning] When you said that the box should contain what engineers are actually afraid of, I was genuinely wondering how you were going to visually represent an "intermittent fault", or a "component shortage" coming out of the box. It simply never occurred to me that in 2021, anyone would perpetuate the old 1950's stereotype of engineers being men, with such poor social skills that they were afraid of women. Maybe this is a national difference(?), but in the UK, and certainly at the companies I have worked at, about 50% of the professional design engineers were women anyway, and everyone got along just fine.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you Nicholas. We had also "A client calling: It's not working ....", but I really liked the current one. The girl who come up with the idea, she actually asked around and this was the top result of her survey :). I agree, I knew this may be different between countries .. and also between generations, so yes, I was not sure how some people may react. Now, when we are talking about that, it could be interesting to know what is other's experience. PS: 50% women, wow!

[@Snowa_fan]

Can you design me one pls

[@KOGUHLAANALKBUMINATHANMoe]

you are good.But whats mean folk magic. Do you no i don no

[@Snowa_fan]

Can you make me a magic wand plz

[@myetis1990]

it is easy to make the wand, but hard to find a beautiful girl to test it :)

[@LuckyDancer7]

Bro said ‘the problem was my 3d printer, so I bought a new one’!!? lmao money fixes problems, I guess 😅

[@dfgaJK]

You spent all that time to make something so cool, but then went and pulled the move of a true ass hole by making it require FIVE CR2032 cells!! 😉😂

[@RobertFeranec]

I was thinking about re-chargeable battery, but that would make the circuit more complicated ... and I wanted to keep it super simple to use it for learning basic circuits.