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| John Hill:
Jake, I suggest starting with a strong magnet ( you can buy 'super' magnets that are strong enough to be dangerous) and experimenting with your beads. Magnets dont come in 'sucking' and 'blowing' varieties, a simple magnet has two poles which are usually at each end and are referred to as 'north' and 'south'. When the north pole of one magnet comes near the south pole of another they attract, but two like poles will repel. This means the magnetic beads must all be aligned with all the beads having the same pole on one side of your fabric, the beads will not like this and will try to flip around! So, again, my suggestion is to experiments and find the major issues using permanent magnets, the electro magnet questions will be easier to solve when we know more about what is required (which we learn from your experiments) John |
| jake598:
Thanks for all of your feedback so far, I’m going to attempt to see how it eventuates this weekend. I’ll keep you posted with the results. This is project is quite different to my usual occupation and interests so the results should be ‘interesting’. |
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