Shooting fireballs from your wrists – Hadouken!
posted Dec 13th 2010 1:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: wearable hacks
[Glass Giant's] wrist-mounted fireball launcher adds a little stage magic to his life. This method of fire production is several orders of magnitude less dangerous than other arm-attached flamethrowers or instrument-mounted torches. The module, which is strapped to the underside of his wrist, stores and lights a combination of flash cotton and flash paper. The two flammables are housed in a small aluminum tube touching a glow plug. A slider switch acts as a safety, completing the circuit from the battery, to the glow plug, terminating in a mercury switch which heats things up when held at the proper level. He’s still working out the best way to load the flash materials but as you can see in the video after the break, this is definitely worthy of the Street Fighter reference.
Make magazine did this as a weekend project a long time ago.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/flashback_diminutive_balls_of_fire.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/03/fireball_shooter_weekend.html