Magic 8 Ball Predicts Fortunes

Posted by Cash On on 2013-08-08 0

Inventor and maker, Jason Poel Smith, has confirmed that Magic 8 Ball was an amusing toy, and that it correctly tells or answers questions and admitted that  it could only respond to questions with 20 possible answers. So he decided to give it a serious upgrade.

Helen carried out a project on steps for removing the 20-sided predicting die inside the Magic 8 Ball and replacing it with a digital picture keychain.

Tweaking the toy this way enables it to generate up to 60 different image responses, or fortunes.

The project involved sawing the ball in half, removing the tube that contained the 20-sided die and blue liquid it floated in, placing in a clear plastic to shield the digital keychain and putting in a section of a PVC pipe to hold the digital keychain in place. Smith also included button extenders and a USB port to enable access to the keychain and change the image responses any time.