Everyone’s favorite safety-tie-wearing-eccentric-inventor, [Colin Furze], is back at it again, this time making a flamethrower guitar — sponsored by Intel!?
As an ex-plumber, [Furze] is a master fabricator, and he’s brought many amazing mechanical inventions to life. In this video, perhaps for the first time, he’s integrated an Intel Curie Arduino in it, for a bit more fine control.
He’s hacked apart a couple of propane blow-torches, milled and lathed his own fittings and manifolds, and even TIG welded together a pressure vessel for the fuel — kids, do not try this at home!
The two blowtorches act as pilot lights for a third gas supply line to make the big firing explosion — the plan for the Arduino? To blast off the fire at certain parts during the song, add timing, or even just set up some cool patterns.
Did we mention he’s also got his own custom propane fueled guitar amp to go with it??
[Caleb’s] going to want to beef up his flamethrower ukulele if he wants to go toe-to-toe with [Colin]! Stay tuned for next week when he tests it out.
Ok that just kept getting cooler and cooler the longer I watched it…. almost makes me wish I could play guitar.
Never too late to start
Colin’s impressiveness aside, does anyone else find it odd that a Brit is being sponsored by “America’s Greatest Makers?”
Intel desperately need to show something using there odd product in an application that could be easily handled by something as simple as a ATtiny44.
Wrongo mr. AMD whatever. The Curie has a bad ass 32b Processor. Bluetooth. Accelerometer/gyro, power management, neural logic pattern recognition. I’ve used both. ATtiny is only 1/4 of the 32b processor and nothing else.
You misunderstand. The Curie is more powerful, but the application could have been handled by an ATtiny44.
Then explain why I need a bad ass 32b Processor, Bluetooth, Accelerometer/gyro, power management, neural logic pattern recognition to control a bunch of solenoid valves?
ATtiny is overkill. If he replaced the Curie with _a wire_ it would have been just as cool.
The point, however, is price. In Colin’s particular situation, using a wire would have likely cost him tens of thousands of pounds.
Build is still cool. Typically Furzey. Rock on.
I could do it with bunch of transistors or/and op-amps, and it would be sound-controlled too…
Nope, Sign of the times though, for sure.
That was awesome, but I don’t know how you go through an entire flamethrower guitar build without once mentioning Mad Max Fury Road. *checks Amazon Prime*
I know, I thought of that when I read the title.
Hahaha. Only part of the movie I really enjoyed!
The what? There are three Mad Max movies but none of them are called that (also, I’m only slightly mad).
I agree. Mel Gibson is such a great actor no matter what his personal views may or may not be. Mad Max was his second or third movie, and it was almost flawless. Road Warrior is my favorite in the series.
Did not care for the 2015 version. No Mel means no Max.
“safety-tie-wearing”
I’m guessing this is a British expression that a backwoods American like me isn’t familiar with? I got nothing from Google, either.
It’s a joke. Colin does so many unsafe things that one figures maybe it’s his signature out of place in the workshop necktie that keeps him from harm. (Well most harm, he did get burned recently but he recovered.)
Ah, thanks.
A “safety tie” is a thing, basically a clip-on tie that means if it gets caught in something, it just flies off rather than drag your head into the machine with it. Our corporate wear catalogue had a selection of safety ties, “real” ones are deliberately unavailable.
If you’re tired of rocking the Captain Clip-On look, you can get one of the police ones. They tie like a regular tie, but when you pull on them too hard the velcro part under your collar breaks away. Bonus: many of them are machine washable. :-)
Velcro saves lives again!
The performance video is good, too: https://youtu.be/xwWw9g0EgHA
I prefer Flame-O-Phone style of music more.
https://youtu.be/LZY9_Xr5XPA
This man should be burnt alive for butchering such a good Epiphone Les Paul…
Other than that, this is a very cool video, and tehe hack is very well done !
I don’t know about that. Butchered maybe, but he will make a lot of money selling it to some metalhead when he gets bored with it.
Or…
See if Blue Man Group will buy it!
Why? It’s just a cheap Epiphone, I’m not saying Epiphone are shit, I have two and love them. It’s just recent mass produced models are not that special that I’d care about someone hacking them up.
…it’s an Epiphone. They’re typically cheap and essentially mass produced. Perfect candidate for modding if there ever was one.
Had it been an original Gibson guitar I could have understood some murderous looks, but not this.
With this you definitely rock out with your cock IN, in an asbestos suit preferably!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgnI6mMPuZc&w=560&h=315%5D
There’s a similar patent from 1981
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=04247283&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D4247283.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F4247283%2526RS%3DPN%2F4247283&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
TURNED not lathed.
I know one band that would love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaa3vC_n2k
Looks like it’s up and working now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_683113957&feature=iv&src_vid=2seXZcx-0W8&v=xwWw9g0EgHA
Too bad he didn’t have a functioning Doof Wagon to showcase it on.
I mean, the inside of an underground bunker’s hardly a bad location for said showcase…
Hover-Bike + Flame throwing guitar.. That would be awesome to watch :-)
Love this guy..
Please call lathe work turning instead of saying something was “lathed”. Technically it is correct but no one says that and it has been jarring to read the last few times mentioned in a hackaday article. Otherwise please carry on with hardware articles!!tbb
> Technically it is correct
Glad we settled that.
triggered