July 2012
Beginner
176 pages
7h 48m
English

ELECTRONICS: FUN AND FUNDAMENTALS
You needn’t believe in divination to enjoy making this fortune-teller.
In my previous column I described an electronic version of that old fortune-telling favorite, the Magic 8 Ball (MAKE Volume 30, “Magic 8 Box”). Now I want to delve deeper into divination — and the deepest you can go is surely the I Ching. This tool of prophesy originated in China thousands of years ago.
The I Ching supposedly offers insight into your current situation, and how it may change in the near future. You use a random system to draw 2 “hexagrams,” each of which consists ...