{"id":659,"date":"2016-06-08T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:38:44","slug":"fire-o-matic-the-home-made-fire-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/fire-o-matic-the-home-made-fire-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-o-matic: the home made Fire Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project is firmly in the category of things you should not try making at home, but is great fun nevertheless&#8230; it&#8217;s a home made &#8220;Fire Machine&#8221; which launches jets of flames and fireballs when you switch it on:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2MBoIBLLP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is obviously quite dangerous, so I seriously\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t recommend making one of these. You can buy them ready made on eBay (although they are pretty expensive).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, rather than write up all the details of this project, I&#8217;ve taken some photos and videos of the main components instead. This video shows the solenoid valve components\u00a0and how it was assembled (mostly out of scrap parts):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F14DL7R2iEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video showing the electrical parts. It&#8217;s actually fairly simple, so there&#8217;s no real need for a circuit diagram\/schematic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxRCCIhtpaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is where I originally got the inspiration from (Chinese made DMX fire machine):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-AzhhbOzTbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project is firmly in the category of things you should not try making at home, but is great fun nevertheless&#8230; it&#8217;s a home made &#8220;Fire Machine&#8221; which launches jets of flames and fireballs when you switch it on: This is obviously quite dangerous, so I seriously\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t recommend making one of these. You can buy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/fire-o-matic-the-home-made-fire-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire-o-matic: the home made Fire Machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}