World's First Programmable Magic Wand!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,737 words · ~8 min read
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today i am having an experience like no other literally because thanks to kano
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sponsoring this video i will be the first person in the world
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who gets to cover the harry potter cano
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coding kit in their own words
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you will build a wand for yourself
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learn to code and you will yes this is a direct quote from the packaging wave
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your coding wand
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let's find out how that works
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okay so the software is currently pre-released for this so i've gone ahead
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and i've assembled an entire array of every device that the final product will
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support so i've got iOS Android macOS and Windows but i'm going to go ahead
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and as much as this is going to be a struggle for me i'm going to use the mac
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os version of it because that's apparently the one that is the most
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complete right now so we're not going to be having the entire experience because
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it's not done i mean there is no entire experience
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because you can like i've actually got some experience with the original cano
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computer kit i built it with my son and he's actually used it quite a bit since
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then and there's not really like um there's not like like a beat the boss
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and it's over type thing like it's more of a of a learning product but we aren't
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going to have even the entire pre-canned experience because it's not quite done
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yet so
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there we go so this is it come on over here
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ollivander would be proud how to make a wand the handbook
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go ahead and put that there
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look at this they got like a little thing you just okay
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all right so um snap click swish swish and flick
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i haven't watched the movies in a while but i'm still getting i'm still getting
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the references here oh wow there is a spell guide
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stupefy wingardium leviosa
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it's leviosa not leviosa no leviosa not leviosa
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why do i know these things i'm sorry
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i know i know lumos
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so these are some of the gestures that you can do quick guide to one motions i
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totally i totally want this poster like
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regardless of the product i like actually would just buy this poster
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uh what else we got here okay we could look at the instructions
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that's a thick instruction book this is your wand it's made of plastic
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rubber copper and electronics
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okay got your wand tip got a lanyard so you
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don't throw it into the tv wand handle wand brain
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button and two aaa batteries let's build
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your wand pick up this piece they really do make this stuff simple that was
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something that i thought they did a great job of when i built the cano computer kit with my son i mean even he
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was able to do it he wasn't even six yet okay pick up this piece got it
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it's called a printed circuit board or pcb look closely at the parts oh that's
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fun so there's your power controller so charging must come in somewhere near
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there but i don't actually see it here's our processor here's an activity
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light of some sort here's our codable vibration motor oh cool there's
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vibration feedback so the bluetooth antenna this is fun actually this is
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cool so a lot of people think that devices that don't have external
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antennas don't necessarily have antennas but what they actually are is they're
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generally copper on a printed circuit board so you can see in order to make
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the antenna longer than it would otherwise be able to be they've gone and
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they've snaked it like this neat right learned something every day here's some
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sensors here's the button and then this is a coatable light so
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you've got both vibration and light feedback
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let's add some power turn the pcb over there you go so the batteries just go
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right in there bippity boppity ha ha that's not harry potter never mind
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that's where the batteries go okay so we got oh that is RGB like in that
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our bluetooth looks like it's in pairing mode oh wow wow these are really step by step
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slot the first i'm way ahead of you way ahead of you make sure your
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batteries are facing this way got it
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flip the pcb over make sure the blue light is on if not check the batteries
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are the right way around got it inside this little black square are
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three sensors a gyroscope that senses gravity so the wand will know which way
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is up and down an accelerometer so the wand will be able to know how fast it's
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going and a magnetometer to calculate the wand's direction
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so gravity speed right it's almost looking like a like a spell guide now
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we're getting there we're getting close
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so it knows if you're moving it up down forward backward left right
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fast or slow that's cool
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so basically there's almost no limit if you can get your
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muscle memory just right to what you could do with it okay more instructions
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on how to put in the button i'm good i figured that out wow they really yup
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they're making it simple flip it over make sure the button's peeping out i
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think we got this this looked like heavy reading but
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actually it's not pick up your wand with it you'll do great things
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with the right movements the right words a bit of curiosity and courage look at
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this when this then flame particles one x flame particles
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one y that's cool can make feathers float flames flow
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jelly beans grow and gorgio first challenge
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let's use your coating wand to make a feather levitate
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open the objects tray got this
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drag the block onto your code space change seconds to milliseconds and open
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the physics tray and drag this block right about there so
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every one millisecond do object set position of all to x and y coordinates
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of the wand cool so
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drag this block into your code space throw that on to your x position
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whoops boop there you go and then we also need the wand y
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position there we go and then we open the physics tray and set the angle to
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oh i see what we want to do so we want to change pitch to roll
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that way we can roll the feather around very cool so you
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can actually see a preview see that
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so you can wave and roll your wand and watch the feather match your movements
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and then uh reducto
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you can choose what kind of beans you want we could do uh
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regular beans and gorgio
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can you guys hear the the uh the vibrating feedback oh i can't make them
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any bigger okay reducto
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i'm a wizard arie so we're gonna cast cast immobilis on a swarm of cornish
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pixies will do change all to random and change 0 to 60
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so they fly towards each other so this is going to be quite the swarm
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of pixies then so this is creating our pixies
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then we need to create a wand action to control these bloody
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things we've got our one centered thanks to the power of block coding even
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i was able to figure it out so now we can restart the program you
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can see what happens is we have a bunch of pixie spawn and they're running all
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over the place in zero gravity boom off it goes and then you go like this
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and they freeze immobilize
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last challenge now we get to create fire
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this is actually the part i was waiting for first add a loop so we are always
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generating particles one of the neatest things about the software is that you
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can see what's happening in real time over on the side
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so i can see that every one second is not great
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so now every one millisecond now we get a
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thousand times as much fire and then if i were to point my wand at the screen
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here i'm just going to center it again boom
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now i'm creating these these particles that are flying out from the point of
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the wand so you can see the cursor there as well
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there you have it summoning fire out of the wand
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and you can follow along with absolutely everything that we changed so now
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instead of having uniform particles we've made them clumpier we've made them
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change color and we've made them go from bigger down to smaller so that you get a
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much more realistic fire like effect with your wand so this
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is just a small slice of what you'll be able to do with the harry potter cano
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coating kit you will actually be able to
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program actions for gestures and just
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like the original cano the sky is the
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limit in terms of your creativity so yes there's going to be
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tutorials and demos and little challenges that you can complete if
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you're looking to take a harry potter fan in your life be they small or
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adult sized and introduce them to the power of coding but then
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the real fun is to be had in the learning experiences that you can have
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after you've completed the in the box challenges so
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guys it's going to be available for 99.99 starting october 1st and you can
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pre-order it right now at the link in the video description guys if you want
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to find out more information you can check out the link in the video description thank you for watching and
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thanks again to kano not only for sponsoring this video but also for
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letting me be one of the first people in the world to experience this piece of
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computing magic