I love robots. Obviously. But ya know, there’s just not much better in life than flame throwers. I had a few at my wedding. I’ve tinkered with them. My wife builds them. They’re just cool.

I made four for demo purposes. Took a bunch of money, lots of failures, and big spendy parts (like industrial electric sparkers that cost more than your bar tab.)

But Mark Puustinen kicks my ass. He built a flamethrower. But he made his out of Lego Mindstorms.

I’m not talking about the shell, or the activator switch, I’m talking the whole effin’ flamethrower (for those who have a Mindstorms kit, you may not know that there’s a pneumatic add on set you can buy in Europe.)

Flame size is about 1.5 meters at best. The fire consumed so much oxygen that window seals begun to make a wining noise because air was coming in to the apartment from all holes at rapid speed. That was really weird! The noise is also unbelievable. You can get a faint idea from the video but to hear it in person is quite impressive and makes you kind of respect the force of fire.

[Via TechBlog]

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