today we’re gonna be building a Harry
Potter styled magic wand with a shocking
twist
guys I love Harry Potter I love Harry
Potter so much I’ve read all the books
I’ve watched all the movies and just a
fan all around and something that I’ve
been wanting to build for a long time is
a magic wand that actually will deliver
a small electric shock now I don’t want
anything that’s gonna truly incapacitate
or injure someone but I did want
something that’s sort of a prank me
touch someone with it press a button and
they get zapped a little bit so here’s
what we’re gonna be doing we’ve got
these gag shocking pens if you’ve never
seen one of these before here’s how that
works it’s pretty simple there is a
functioning pen to it but it looks like
it’s gonna be a click pen and so you
give it to someone with the pen not
extended they try and click it and when
they do it zaps them the body of the pen
and the top here are conductive and we
press down on the top it connects all
the wires inside and it delivers a small
buzz it’s not something that’s going to
hurt because it’s intended as a joke
it’s just startling when it suddenly
buzzes your thumb instead of just
extending the pen at the bottom so what
we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take all
of the electronic guts out of this pin
change things up a little bit so we have
a button that turns it on and off and
some leads at the front of the wand
hopefully we’ll end up with a wand with
a shock here’s the basic idea we’ll use
a couple of dowels and the inside parts
of a shocking gag pen to build a wand
that can deliver a tiny electric shock
to your friends along with the dowels
and the shocking pens that we’re gonna
take all of the insides out we’ve got a
few things we’re gonna add in first I
picked up a set of these other batteries
I grabbed these at Harbor Freight this
whole pack was about four dollars it’s a
lot of different varieties we’re gonna
be using one of these smaller sizes the
bigger ones won’t be able to fit too
well
I also grabbed this cheap little
flashlight it didn’t even work when I
bought it that’s okay because all we
want is the push button on the inside of
the flashlight we’re gonna be taking
that out if you have a good way to buy
those buttons individually that works –
this just happened to be in the store
where I already was and then I also have
a couple varieties of wire this is some
insulated wire that I pulled out of some
old cat5 cable and this right here is
the decorative copper wire it has an
enamel coating on it and that enamel
coating is actually non conductive you
can scrape it away to get to a
conductive portion of the wire so this
stuff works really well as an ammo wire
which is also weirdly hard to find
the reason we got additional batteries
even though the shocking pens do come
with some is that the batteries in the
Pens are really weak these pens are not
very expensive and the batteries that
come with them are pretty cheap they die
quickly and I suspect that they don’t
have quite the voltage that they’re
supposed to in the first place
these batteries that I’m using are
actually also fairly cheap but they
definitely seem to have more of a charge
to them than the ones that come in the
pen time to break into our shocking pen
and look at the electronics inside so
this part just sort of twists off got
some metallic insides that just kind of
get shredded as we do that this plastic
portion up here we’re gonna use part of
this down here we’re not going to be
using in there glued together so the
easiest way to separate them just to
break through it that’s okay because we
didn’t want this portion we’re just
gonna be using this top bit so now this
splits apart you can see our insides
here’s what we need there’s this portion
here as all of our connection points to
the wires I’m actually going to be
taking my gloves off the point of this
thing is that it gives off an electric
shock and I want to be able to feel it
to know that I have it set up right if
it’s not working correctly I need to
know and the easiest way to do that is
just to touch the things and see if it’s
zapping me so let’s take a look at this
thing how it works so if I am touching
this spring which is in contact with
those batteries and I touch this end as
well it starts buzzing and you’ve maybe
heard my voice jump a couple of times
when I touched it by accident and wasn’t
expecting it it’s not that it’s super
painful it’s just surprising them not
ready for it so as long as I’m in
contact with this lead here and this
lead here it gives me a nice little buzz
we don’t want it to be always on we want
to add a switch a button on the outside
and that’s why we have our tiny little
flashlight here
[Music]
this is why we got the flashlight this
for this tiny little switch it doesn’t
click on it off the same way as some
switches it’s just if you’re holding
down the button it’s on and that’s
exactly what we want we only want the
electricity of the one to be connected
while we’re pressing the button we are
not going to be using the LED bulb so we
can just clip that off there’s our
little button we’ll have this red wire
here going to our button we’ll take the
spring off and attach it up here we’ll
have the wire on the other side of our
button going back touching the spring
and then a second wire coming off of
that going up through our wand those two
will run all the way up to the tip of
the wand and that’s what we’re gonna use
is our shocking point we’ve got a couple
of these pieces of the plastic case that
we’re inside of the pen and we actually
do want to use those we just need to
trim them down a little bit sort of the
right size now these two the little pegs
at the bottom hold this all together
it’s very nice and compact that’s
something we can fit inside the handle
of the wand one of the trickiest things
about this whole setup is how small we
need to get everything we really need to
compact it down quite a bit so I’m just
gonna do a little bit of wire bending on
these pieces right here to make
everything fit a little bit nicer so
before this little plastic plate was
facing straight up I have bent it back
and then over again so you can see that
the wires here are doubled around that’s
just gonna keep everything a little bit
shorter and that will make it so we can
fit it inside the handle of our wand our
Springs and our battery are in place so
now we’re just gonna take this cover and
throw it back on that’ll stop our
batteries from popping out like they’d
like to do all right
this parts prepped let’s set that aside
for a few minutes
get started on the wand itself right
here I have a 1/2 inch dowel we need to
run wires through a portion of this
we’re gonna cut it off so it’s about
that long we’re gonna cut it in half
lengthwise first though we want to be
able to run wires in the inside of this
dowel and carve out a channel and then
now we need to split it the long way to
do that we’re gonna use a handsaw now we
want to choose a length I think that
looks pretty good I’m gonna cut that off
about here because we use the bandsaw
these two pieces fit really nicely
together however it does leave a little
bit of tooth mark on the inside so we’re
gonna take the sandpaper and try and
and we want to cut a channel all the way
down the length of the whole thing and
we can cut into one side or both sides
either way works this split actually
ended up being quite even and so I think
we’re just gonna cut a little bit of a
groove into both of those there’s lots
of ways you could cut this groove you
could use just a razor blade in a steady
hand I’m gonna try using a rotary tool I
think it’ll be a little bit quicker and
easier what we need is a channel that’s
just big enough for some of this wire
two strands of it and they come with two
strands twisted together so that’s just
what we like to be able to fit down
through the channel of the wand it’s
enough space that we can glue them
together and have the size of the wood
meeting up one other change we’re gonna
do you can see that I didn’t take the
channel all the way to the end of the
wood and that’s because we don’t just
want a big open channel there we’re
gonna add two more smaller channels
coming off of that and a little bit of
the wire with the coating stripped off
is what’s gonna stick out from the top
[Music]
we’ve got our two lead wires however
these are just a little bit too stabby
we don’t want to be injuring people
we’re gonna be shocking them but it’s a
light shock that’s not supposed to
really hurt it’s what we’re gonna do to
round these out is we’re going to add a
little drop of solder on to the tip of
[Music]
now we need to glue this wire inside
that channel
that should be plenty of clamps wow that
glue is drying let’s work on some of the
internal portions of our wand we’ve got
the basic housing and battery set up and
that’s all gonna fit inside of our
handles so now we need to go about
making that handle we’re actually going
to drill a hole lengthwise down into the
dowel once can we just large enough to
fit our electronics inside as well as
working as a connection point between
the handle and the shaft of the wand
with the hole drilled out into the
larger dowel piece we can see that
everything can now fit down inside
that’s exactly what we’re gonna need we
do want to do a little bit of decorative
work on the handle and we’re actually
going to do that right now because it’s
gonna end up thinning out parts at the
top and we just want to make sure that
we have everything all complete and
lined up just right it’s gonna be a
little bit easier if we do this part
first rather than after all right
there’s some decoration put on the
handle I’ve seen some other people do
some interesting stuff making their own
Harry Potter one handles where they use
things like hot glue or melted wax to
add some other texture onto those if
that’s something you like doing by all
means you should go ahead and do that
for this one I’m just gonna use some
sanding give it a little bit of shape
and texture down at the bottom you can
see I didn’t do too much at the top
that’s because the walls up at the top
where will the doubt are fairly thin I
didn’t want to risk cracking or sanding
through the edges there so the top part
is mostly untouched and I did quite a
bit more texture down at the bottom when
Guardium Leviosa which is not gonna work
because the ones not done yet time to do
a little bit more soldering
[Music]
our button is going to go on outside of
the wand so we need to add some access
points for the wires to go through the
side of the handle we’re now using our
smallest drill bit Lou has had plenty of
time to dry you know we need to shape
this a little bit more right now it’s
just shaped like a dowel that’s not very
exciting so back to the belt sander
you’re gonna take some of these sides
down and get a little more tapered there
we go
as I was tapering it I said it I kind of
wanted to match to the handle a little
bit and I gave it a little bit of a
spiral cut to it
kind of makes it look like a unicorn
horn or something okay so now we need to
have one of these two wires attaches to
the spring and the other one of those
wires attaches to this green piece of
wire here so let’s clip everything
[Music]
all right I got to try something it’s
not gonna feel good like causes a muscle
in here to just completely cease all at
once okay last thing I want to do is
just add a bit of finishing color to
this so it doesn’t just look like plain
pine so we’re at least gonna make it
look a little bit snazzier the one is
complete and I have some volunteers I
volunteered them to participate in me
testing this out jocke how do you feel
about that I feel great
yeah I feel like a victim don’t worry
you can shock me with it too so it’s
pretty simple there’s a button and then
these two leads have to make contact
with the skin it’s a little bit and and
it depends it changes a lot depending on
where on your skin it is yeah so I’ve
had lots of times where it just like
buzzes a little bit and then I’ve had
times where I I feel it running all the
way up through my fingers if I put it
right here on my arm I can actually feel
it buzzing yeah nothing crazy like a
Taser or a stun gun exactly I didn’t
want something that was gonna like
injure people it’s completely
involuntary muscle contractures let’s go
for right right here’s give me I’m gonna
try one finger on and then touch the
other side with my tongue I can feel it
in my finger and my tongue I don’t feel
it traveling the path between them but I
have done it on my website on your
tongue and the other side I’m Josh this
time oh no we’re not gonna try that the
trick of this is really engineering
everything to be small enough to fit
inside the handle but it works and you
can wave it around in you magic spells
Wingardium Leviosa Oh when Guardium
Leviosa made the camera float away a
guys it’s not all we’ve always got more
for you to see that box up at the top is
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Potter styled magic wand with a shocking
twist
guys I love Harry Potter I love Harry
Potter so much I’ve read all the books
I’ve watched all the movies and just a
fan all around and something that I’ve
been wanting to build for a long time is
a magic wand that actually will deliver
a small electric shock now I don’t want
anything that’s gonna truly incapacitate
or injure someone but I did want
something that’s sort of a prank me
touch someone with it press a button and
they get zapped a little bit so here’s
what we’re gonna be doing we’ve got
these gag shocking pens if you’ve never
seen one of these before here’s how that
works it’s pretty simple there is a
functioning pen to it but it looks like
it’s gonna be a click pen and so you
give it to someone with the pen not
extended they try and click it and when
they do it zaps them the body of the pen
and the top here are conductive and we
press down on the top it connects all
the wires inside and it delivers a small
buzz it’s not something that’s going to
hurt because it’s intended as a joke
it’s just startling when it suddenly
buzzes your thumb instead of just
extending the pen at the bottom so what
we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take all
of the electronic guts out of this pin
change things up a little bit so we have
a button that turns it on and off and
some leads at the front of the wand
hopefully we’ll end up with a wand with
a shock here’s the basic idea we’ll use
a couple of dowels and the inside parts
of a shocking gag pen to build a wand
that can deliver a tiny electric shock
to your friends along with the dowels
and the shocking pens that we’re gonna
take all of the insides out we’ve got a
few things we’re gonna add in first I
picked up a set of these other batteries
I grabbed these at Harbor Freight this
whole pack was about four dollars it’s a
lot of different varieties we’re gonna
be using one of these smaller sizes the
bigger ones won’t be able to fit too
well
I also grabbed this cheap little
flashlight it didn’t even work when I
bought it that’s okay because all we
want is the push button on the inside of
the flashlight we’re gonna be taking
that out if you have a good way to buy
those buttons individually that works –
this just happened to be in the store
where I already was and then I also have
a couple varieties of wire this is some
insulated wire that I pulled out of some
old cat5 cable and this right here is
the decorative copper wire it has an
enamel coating on it and that enamel
coating is actually non conductive you
can scrape it away to get to a
conductive portion of the wire so this
stuff works really well as an ammo wire
which is also weirdly hard to find
the reason we got additional batteries
even though the shocking pens do come
with some is that the batteries in the
Pens are really weak these pens are not
very expensive and the batteries that
come with them are pretty cheap they die
quickly and I suspect that they don’t
have quite the voltage that they’re
supposed to in the first place
these batteries that I’m using are
actually also fairly cheap but they
definitely seem to have more of a charge
to them than the ones that come in the
pen time to break into our shocking pen
and look at the electronics inside so
this part just sort of twists off got
some metallic insides that just kind of
get shredded as we do that this plastic
portion up here we’re gonna use part of
this down here we’re not going to be
using in there glued together so the
easiest way to separate them just to
break through it that’s okay because we
didn’t want this portion we’re just
gonna be using this top bit so now this
splits apart you can see our insides
here’s what we need there’s this portion
here as all of our connection points to
the wires I’m actually going to be
taking my gloves off the point of this
thing is that it gives off an electric
shock and I want to be able to feel it
to know that I have it set up right if
it’s not working correctly I need to
know and the easiest way to do that is
just to touch the things and see if it’s
zapping me so let’s take a look at this
thing how it works so if I am touching
this spring which is in contact with
those batteries and I touch this end as
well it starts buzzing and you’ve maybe
heard my voice jump a couple of times
when I touched it by accident and wasn’t
expecting it it’s not that it’s super
painful it’s just surprising them not
ready for it so as long as I’m in
contact with this lead here and this
lead here it gives me a nice little buzz
we don’t want it to be always on we want
to add a switch a button on the outside
and that’s why we have our tiny little
flashlight here
[Music]
this is why we got the flashlight this
for this tiny little switch it doesn’t
click on it off the same way as some
switches it’s just if you’re holding
down the button it’s on and that’s
exactly what we want we only want the
electricity of the one to be connected
while we’re pressing the button we are
not going to be using the LED bulb so we
can just clip that off there’s our
little button we’ll have this red wire
here going to our button we’ll take the
spring off and attach it up here we’ll
have the wire on the other side of our
button going back touching the spring
and then a second wire coming off of
that going up through our wand those two
will run all the way up to the tip of
the wand and that’s what we’re gonna use
is our shocking point we’ve got a couple
of these pieces of the plastic case that
we’re inside of the pen and we actually
do want to use those we just need to
trim them down a little bit sort of the
right size now these two the little pegs
at the bottom hold this all together
it’s very nice and compact that’s
something we can fit inside the handle
of the wand one of the trickiest things
about this whole setup is how small we
need to get everything we really need to
compact it down quite a bit so I’m just
gonna do a little bit of wire bending on
these pieces right here to make
everything fit a little bit nicer so
before this little plastic plate was
facing straight up I have bent it back
and then over again so you can see that
the wires here are doubled around that’s
just gonna keep everything a little bit
shorter and that will make it so we can
fit it inside the handle of our wand our
Springs and our battery are in place so
now we’re just gonna take this cover and
throw it back on that’ll stop our
batteries from popping out like they’d
like to do all right
this parts prepped let’s set that aside
for a few minutes
get started on the wand itself right
here I have a 1/2 inch dowel we need to
run wires through a portion of this
we’re gonna cut it off so it’s about
that long we’re gonna cut it in half
lengthwise first though we want to be
able to run wires in the inside of this
dowel and carve out a channel and then
now we need to split it the long way to
do that we’re gonna use a handsaw now we
want to choose a length I think that
looks pretty good I’m gonna cut that off
about here because we use the bandsaw
these two pieces fit really nicely
together however it does leave a little
bit of tooth mark on the inside so we’re
gonna take the sandpaper and try and
and we want to cut a channel all the way
down the length of the whole thing and
we can cut into one side or both sides
either way works this split actually
ended up being quite even and so I think
we’re just gonna cut a little bit of a
groove into both of those there’s lots
of ways you could cut this groove you
could use just a razor blade in a steady
hand I’m gonna try using a rotary tool I
think it’ll be a little bit quicker and
easier what we need is a channel that’s
just big enough for some of this wire
two strands of it and they come with two
strands twisted together so that’s just
what we like to be able to fit down
through the channel of the wand it’s
enough space that we can glue them
together and have the size of the wood
meeting up one other change we’re gonna
do you can see that I didn’t take the
channel all the way to the end of the
wood and that’s because we don’t just
want a big open channel there we’re
gonna add two more smaller channels
coming off of that and a little bit of
the wire with the coating stripped off
is what’s gonna stick out from the top
[Music]
we’ve got our two lead wires however
these are just a little bit too stabby
we don’t want to be injuring people
we’re gonna be shocking them but it’s a
light shock that’s not supposed to
really hurt it’s what we’re gonna do to
round these out is we’re going to add a
little drop of solder on to the tip of
[Music]
now we need to glue this wire inside
that channel
that should be plenty of clamps wow that
glue is drying let’s work on some of the
internal portions of our wand we’ve got
the basic housing and battery set up and
that’s all gonna fit inside of our
handles so now we need to go about
making that handle we’re actually going
to drill a hole lengthwise down into the
dowel once can we just large enough to
fit our electronics inside as well as
working as a connection point between
the handle and the shaft of the wand
with the hole drilled out into the
larger dowel piece we can see that
everything can now fit down inside
that’s exactly what we’re gonna need we
do want to do a little bit of decorative
work on the handle and we’re actually
going to do that right now because it’s
gonna end up thinning out parts at the
top and we just want to make sure that
we have everything all complete and
lined up just right it’s gonna be a
little bit easier if we do this part
first rather than after all right
there’s some decoration put on the
handle I’ve seen some other people do
some interesting stuff making their own
Harry Potter one handles where they use
things like hot glue or melted wax to
add some other texture onto those if
that’s something you like doing by all
means you should go ahead and do that
for this one I’m just gonna use some
sanding give it a little bit of shape
and texture down at the bottom you can
see I didn’t do too much at the top
that’s because the walls up at the top
where will the doubt are fairly thin I
didn’t want to risk cracking or sanding
through the edges there so the top part
is mostly untouched and I did quite a
bit more texture down at the bottom when
Guardium Leviosa which is not gonna work
because the ones not done yet time to do
a little bit more soldering
[Music]
our button is going to go on outside of
the wand so we need to add some access
points for the wires to go through the
side of the handle we’re now using our
smallest drill bit Lou has had plenty of
time to dry you know we need to shape
this a little bit more right now it’s
just shaped like a dowel that’s not very
exciting so back to the belt sander
you’re gonna take some of these sides
down and get a little more tapered there
we go
as I was tapering it I said it I kind of
wanted to match to the handle a little
bit and I gave it a little bit of a
spiral cut to it
kind of makes it look like a unicorn
horn or something okay so now we need to
have one of these two wires attaches to
the spring and the other one of those
wires attaches to this green piece of
wire here so let’s clip everything
[Music]
all right I got to try something it’s
not gonna feel good like causes a muscle
in here to just completely cease all at
once okay last thing I want to do is
just add a bit of finishing color to
this so it doesn’t just look like plain
pine so we’re at least gonna make it
look a little bit snazzier the one is
complete and I have some volunteers I
volunteered them to participate in me
testing this out jocke how do you feel
about that I feel great
yeah I feel like a victim don’t worry
you can shock me with it too so it’s
pretty simple there’s a button and then
these two leads have to make contact
with the skin it’s a little bit and and
it depends it changes a lot depending on
where on your skin it is yeah so I’ve
had lots of times where it just like
buzzes a little bit and then I’ve had
times where I I feel it running all the
way up through my fingers if I put it
right here on my arm I can actually feel
it buzzing yeah nothing crazy like a
Taser or a stun gun exactly I didn’t
want something that was gonna like
injure people it’s completely
involuntary muscle contractures let’s go
for right right here’s give me I’m gonna
try one finger on and then touch the
other side with my tongue I can feel it
in my finger and my tongue I don’t feel
it traveling the path between them but I
have done it on my website on your
tongue and the other side I’m Josh this
time oh no we’re not gonna try that the
trick of this is really engineering
everything to be small enough to fit
inside the handle but it works and you
can wave it around in you magic spells
Wingardium Leviosa Oh when Guardium
Leviosa made the camera float away a
guys it’s not all we’ve always got more
for you to see that box up at the top is
gonna take you directly to our last
video we should go check that out the
other box is going to show you what
YouTube thinks you should be watching
next and if you hit this bomb here in
the middle you’ll be subscribed to our
channel so you never miss out on a video
don’t forget to ring that bell and
you’ll see in the next one talk to you then
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