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Very cool project! I’m curious how the magician would typically use this, would the scanner and an output monitor be hidden somewhere on stage or similar?

• jwhitlark 4y ago
  I would think it would mostly be for practice and rehearsal, to see if you've gone wrong before you reach the end of the trick.
  • wongarsu 4y ago
    I could see someone using this on stage in Penn & Teller's Fool Us. The camera hidden in the table, on the table an elaborate box that never comes into contact with the cards, is used as some elaborate red herring (maybe you have to knock on it, or draw something from it), but really serves to hide a small screen. Now you only have to come up with some impressive card trick that seems impossible to pull off with conventional methods. Of course you could also come up with a better method to communicate the information than an ipad screen. Maybe a tactile signal.
    • Brusco_RF 4y ago
      The impressive card trick could would be the greatest of all time: Have an audience member shuffle the deck to their hearts content, then place it on a table. Tell them what the top card is, then ask them to flip it to verify. Then proceed to do the same to _the entire deck_
• suyash 4y ago
  that would be a trade secret and as a magician I won't disclose in the open forum.
• Youden 4y ago
  Not a magician, just watch tricks occasionally and enjoy thinking about how they're made. I wouldn't necessarily expect the monitor to be visual as card tricks usually just need knowledge of a couple of cards. This could be communicated through sound (e.g. discrete earpiece or bone conduction headphones) or even haptics (e.g. Morse code vibrations from a phone in a pocket). As for the scanner, it'll depend on the trick, the goal is just to hide a camera. It could be concealed in a prop or an item of clothing. The scanning could even be incorporated into the trick, for example by sealing the cards immediately in a "safe".