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I've tried a search but with no joy, and wondered if anyone would care to comment on this marvelous looking piece of engineering.

Don't see anything wrong in using electronics in magic IMHO, and feel that this tool will allow for some very direct and 'unbacktrackable' effects.

Who has opinions on the T-3? Is the potential I am dreaming about really there? Is it practical? Will be very interested to find out what owners have to say.

Cheers me dears!

Wait for Tomo's electonic book! There's 20 quids worth of gear tops in them. You could knock it together yourself no bother.

Harry Guinness wrote:Wait for Tomo's electonic book!

I want that one

Harry Guinness wrote:Wait for Tomo's electonic book! There's 20 quids worth of gear tops in them. You could knock it together yourself no bother.

Hang on a mo. I had a conversation with Christopher before I started this project and agreed to steer clear of his livelihood. If I was to present that kind of project, no one would benefit because they're very complex pieces of technology. There is a very nice bit of radio work in the book, but nothing to do with Christopher's work.

This first volume (oh God, I think there's a second) is about introducing the components available, what they do, and how to connect them up into circuits that will do something useful and practical for us as magicians and mentalists. One of the projects (small, long and thin ) made it's debut in Manchester on Saturday, as a matter of fact.

I want to keep things simple enough for people not used to wielding a soldering iron to get real benefit from the book, and to get their imaginations fired up. Even simple electronics is a fascinating area with lots of applications for us.

I do also have a few gadgets and embeddable devices coming out soon, but that's also another story.

Well you cannot deny that with a basic knowledge of circuitry and anything else the internet provides this would be relatively simple to knock together in some form? My only stumbling block on knocking together a circuit that does this is I have no experience with RF and linking two circuits with that but if and when I'm bothered, that will be easily found on the net. There seems to be a more extreme than normal 'magic mark up' on electronic goods, take a cobra sharpie or any of the magnet sensing gimmicks retailing at 100+ quid, the manufacturing costs are a very small percent on that, granted R&D is of course some expense that needs to be taken into account but even still, 10 minutes on the net will tell you all you need to know about the circuitry involved.

What did Saturday's unveiled object do!?

Harry Guinness wrote:Well you cannot deny that with a basic knowledge of circuitry and anything else the internet provides this would be relatively simple to knock together in some form? My only stumbling block on knocking together a circuit that does this is I have no experience with RF and linking two circuits with that but if and when I'm bothered, that will be easily found on the net. There seems to be a more extreme than normal 'magic mark up' on electronic goods, take a cobra sharpie or any of the magnet sensing gimmicks retailing at 100+ quid, the manufacturing costs are a very small percent on that, granted R&D is of course some expense that needs to be taken into account but even still, 10 minutes on the net will tell you all you need to know about the circuitry involved.

Yep, that's absolutely right. The mark-up on some devices is absolutely shocking.

Harry Guinness wrote:What did Saturday's unveiled object do!?

It's a smashing little thing. It detects a neo, simply, accurately, and discretely, and it costs around a tenner to build from simple parts. There are two versions to build. One can go in a wand-like-thing, the other under a watch strap.

Ah yeah you told me about that, I'm making two similar devices next week or the week after!!! Might I purchase a prelease copy of your plans so I've got something to go on? Watch strap is way smaller than I was planning!

Could I make a request for volume 3:

1. An emp generator to take out noisy music
2. A mobile telephone jammer (it's really quite hard to find the plans for those)
3. and I remember seeing a device that plugged into the mains electric cable just before the meter and caused the meter to run backwards ...

aporia wrote:Could I make a request for volume 3:

1. An emp generator to take out noisy music
2. A mobile telephone jammer (it's really quite hard to find the plans for those)
3. and I remember seeing a device that plugged into the mains electric cable just before the meter and caused the meter to run backwards ...

Wouldn't we all!

I know sod all about electronics, well, I once burnt my trousers with a soldering iron, but I'd love to read the book Tommykins.

I'd love to hear some real-world experience of T3.

Is anyone using it in anger as a staple part of their repertoire?

I've bought electronic devices before - such as Real Ghost and Kronos 2, and they're currently gathering dust.

T3 looks appealing, and I can see a lot of potential for it in theory, but I could have said the same thing about the other things I've bought in CUPS frenzies over the years...

Any and all thoughts are appreciated.

Pete

here here, it does indeed look real world and practical...but thats just the look.


Round up, round up all ye who have the T-3...

Well, another forum seems to be alit with glowing praise for the item.

It includes comments by people that also frequent these parts, but haven't commented on this thread...

pcwells wrote:Well, another forum seems to be alit with glowing praise for the item.

It includes comments by people that also frequent these parts, but haven't commented on this thread...

Maybe they've changed their minds since then.

I'd love to see a review.

Maybe I should 'take one for the team', bite the bullet and give in...humm...
I don't like the pressure society is putting on me to get this, its all too much