Always wanted to be a citizen of Fire Nation? Here’s one way to ace the citizenship exam: punch-activated flaming kung fu gauntlets of doom.
As with all the many, many, many flamethrower projects we’ve featured before, we’ve got to say this is just as bad an idea as they are and that you should not build any of them. That said, [Sufficiently Advanced]’s wrist-mounted, dual-wielding flamethrowers are pretty cool. Fueled by butane and containing enough of the right parts for even a minimally talented prosecutor to make federal bomb-making charges stick, the gauntlets each have an Arduino and accelerometer to analyze your punches. Wimpy punch, no flame — only awesome kung fu moves are rewarded with a puff of butane ignited by an arc lighter. The video below shows a few close calls that should scare off the hairy-knuckled among us; adding a simple metal heat shield might help mitigate potential singeing.
Firebending gloves not enough to satisfy your inner pyromaniac? We understand completely.
Thanks to [Nils Hitze] for the hot tip. Yep.
I must say, well executed. That looks very fun!
Arduino? Accelerometer? Just to activate valve solenoid? Really? Are you f**n mad?
It may be a clever safety feature if you have to simultaneously hold a button and punch hard. Also the whole point is the punch measuring feature. It could be done witu no arduino, but why do that when you have one lying around?
1985 calls, they want their view on tech back. It’s 2017, Arduino is easy and cheap. Make something fun like this yourself or shut up.
so how much does it hurt to see him wear a hackster.io shirt? :D
So much that I now get my own, wuhu!
Follow the money! The truth is out there.
The guy testing it on the ground while wearing baggy sweatpants is an absolute moron. Wear jeans and boots if you’re doing fire stuff.
Shorts and sandals is a good choice too in this case actually. It’s better to burn bare skin than light your clothes.
Jeans are best of both worlds, the flame direct to skin will be more painful than just patting out a flame as the jeans resist flame for a while…
Unless like an old biker I know…
You have oily jeans whilst riding a bike who’s engine naturally backfires through the carb intakes and sets them on fire… LOL
Liar Liar!
English pants will leave said “Liar” feeling a bit naked!
Better still get a pair of nomex pants.
As always a pleasure to supply the Hackaday Crowd with stuff to be picky about ^^
Get this man a 3D printer. Looking forward to a Rev 2, you could make this pretty slick.
He has one – but he could use more: https://www.patreon.com/sufficientlyadvanced
Weapon hacks are always cool…
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People already moaning about an arduino being involved…. For every complaint as such, the maker using an arduino should just for the sake of the HaD audience, get a core i7 gaming board, a 12V to 5v+3v3 (Source-able from blown corsair PSUs for example) and power it and the contraption with a +/-12V Li-ION battery pack in a back pack.
Said video should be called:
“Core i7 controlled Ninja-flamethrower for the arduino haters.”
People complaining that an arduino is a waste of resources forget that in engineering and life, time is the most precious resource.
Perfectly crazy, and how much beautiful…
Glad to see Alan Pan up to something interesting. For the record, he was my #1 choice to win Mythbusters: The Search.
That reminds me: I know rubbing alchohol has enough water in it to consume a lot of the heat and make it pretty safe. Is there any way to do that with a gas? Or is it impossible because you don’t have any more phase transitions to dump heat into once you’re already using gas.
You could spray water vapor into the flame, but you’d end up with a cloud of hot steam that you might then breathe, so I don’t think it would be safer.
That guy looks really soft for a kung fu master. Maybe lay off the donuts.
Ok, jumping about with massive balls of fire all over the place, what could possibly go wrong?