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Snake Basket Magic Trick

I’ve wanted to make a snake basket for a long time. I think it’s from when I was a kid seeing Rich Block demo the Collector’s Workshop Kyber Kobra at a magic convention. This is one of the tricks I could never afford when I was a kid, and I honestly don’t think it’s something I could justify buying now when I can afford it.

As I’m learning to use Arduino, one of the projects that I want to make is a snake basket. I made a post about it here: https://www.magicshow.tips/magic-show-tips/making-a-snake-basket/

Well, I wrote some code and made a layout and it works on an Arduino simulator!

snake basket magic trick

The next step is actually building it, but I’m on the road for another week, so it’ll be at least that long before I can work on it. I have a feeling the moving it from the simulator to a real, physical thing will have some unforeseen challenges!

-Louie

What’s in the Box?

Yesterday I mentioned that I paid $15 for a box of magic stuff. All I had to go off of was the picture below:

box of magic tricks

Well, when I went to pick it up, it was actually 4 boxes!

used magic tricks

This led to a challenge as I’m travelling right now, so my car has my show in it and I won’t be home for a few days. Also quite often old magic has a musty smell, and I don’t want to have that smell in my car all week and I just don’t have space for it.

used magic tricks

I stopped at a grocery story and used their parking lot to sort through the boxes. Like most boxes of used magic, most of the stuff is junk.

used magic tricks

Here’s an overall look at some of the boxes:

used magic tricks
used magic tricks
used magic tricks

The VHS tapes have great material on them, I dont’ have a VHS player and there’s really no market for them. I did find a lo

used magic tricks

The stuff that I didn’t want filtered down the magic food chain. These were left at a performer’s house who lives near where I got the boxes.

Here’s the pile of stuff that I kept:

used magic tricks

There’s a MAK french arm chopper, MAK Chen Lee Water Suspension, snake basket, multiplying bottles (india), sword thru neck (india), and a lot of other misc stuff.

One of the surprises were two Ormand McGill books and they both were signed!

Ormand Mcgill Dr. Zomb autograph
Ormand Mcgill Dr. Zomb autograph
Ormand Mcgill Dr. Zomb autograph

These boxes of magic were a solid buy for $15 and since I was in the area and didn’t have to travel to get them.

-Louie