Tas/Go Board With Levitating Stones

The picture shows a thin sheet of pyrolytic graphite levitating above four rare-earth magnets. I would like to take a hundred of such sets (that is twenty by twenty magnets) and set up in a square with 361 levitation spots. Then cut a lot of pyrolytic graphite into circles and colour half of them white in some way. Well you get the picture.

As the magnet here is about 12mm (½inch) across the whole setup would be about the size of a regular go board. Only problem is that i estimate a total price of about 1000 USD with the best supliers of pyrolytic graphite and magnets I've been able to find.

Tas: Well... do'h... It would only be half sized, a go grid is over 2cm per line. Of course one could use one-inch-magnets but then it gets even more expensive.

Daniel?: my estimate using 1" square magnets(1"x1"x1/8") and 1" sheets of graphite indicates a cost of $3,258.54 or if you were going to build a floor board (where I would suggest cube magnets) $13,978.50 (still cheaper than a $170,604.20 Hyuga Kaya floor board)

SiouxDenim I have a smaller version of the set-up shown. Unless you have a level table and a steady hand the graphite slides off. My guess is that you'd manage to balance a few 'stones', but then you'd add one more and watch them all go flying. The graphite breaks really easily, I'm not sure how you'd manage to colour it in.

External link: Scitoys levitating graphite.