I will showcase three different performances, and explain all of the different methods used for these tricks. That means position is permanent magnets in a ring with selected center electromagnet to levitate the ball from the face and impulses electromagnets to kick it to the next permanent magnet capture position on demand. During that time, he also worked with many of the greatest magicians of our time, including performers like Lee Asher, Greg Wilson and Scott Alexander. if the ball is only steel then how can it be repelled to compensate for the pull of the electromagnets inside the clock body?

During the performance, the magician makes it look like the ball tries to escape from underneath the cloth. Suspended in the air like a drop of water frozen in time, Buda Ball hovers and rotates in mid-air giving us that time-stopping illusion: a reminder to slow down and be mindful of the present moment. You then replace your hands over the ball as the once concentrated look from your face fades into an ear-to-ear grin. Another technique is to use a metal rod or a string covered by a cloth , which makes it look like the ball is floating.

To end this trick, the magician even makes the ball disappear, showing the cloth empty from both sides, only to make it reappear right after and landing the ball safely on the table again. To make a ball float in the air, the magician can use a “Zombie Ball” with a hidden hole inside, in which he sticks his thumb. If you observe the ball closely as it levitates in the air, you will see that it wobbles in the low-pressure area. Since the team launched Flyte, the levitating light on Kickstarter in 2015, they have been amazed by the reactions of thousands of peoples’ faces light up as they experience levitation for the first time. I don’t want to reveal every single movement, but since we live in a world where gravity exists, no objects can float in the air.

From the images, it’s really only 4 coils, 3 hall sensors in the middle (analog one’s for each axis) and two LM324 with some analog controlling. Make sure you don’t cut it too big or else you will have trouble making a seal between the straw and the cone.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

The minimalistic design combined with mind-boggling magnetic levitation technology, makes Buda Ball the ultimate conversation piece.

It would be easy to guess how it works if this was simply sitting flat on a table (which it can do). They decided to put the question to the test and see if our brainwaves could be used to control the levitation of a floating chrome sphere.

These signals are programmed to drive a custom-built motorized levitation controller up and down, causing the ball to rise according to our meditative state. Here though, the magnet would pull the ball straight into the clock’s face while gravity tries to pull it in a direction 90° to the magnet’s force. We used a styrofoam ball for this Bernoulli’s Principle experiment, but you can also use a ping pong ball or even a foil ball. Push/pull would keep the ball a fixed distance away and if the permanent magnet is strong enough then gravity could be negated.

Tell them that you, the master of the incredible, will make a steel ball levitate right in front of their very eyes!