About four, maybe five, years ago I thought up the idea of using a mousetrap as the main part of a remote ignition system for lighting ‘experimental’ fireworks and such. The idea was to attach a match to the mouse trap’s lever and have a matchbox striker pad suspended above. When the mousetrap was triggered […]
I was talking to one of my friends the other day and she was telling me about this torch she has. She said it was fueled with denatured alcohol and you just squeeze the bottle to make it work. I googled the torch later in the week and watched a YouTube video of one […]
One of my favorite hobbies is to fly remote control airplanes. I normally fly electric planes so I am always having to charge batteries. I use LiPo batteries for my planes and I have heard that they have the potential to be dangerous if not monitored well. I read that if something goes wrong in the […]
I was cleaning out one of my ‘junk drawers’ yesterday and I stumbled across one of my past projects, a tuna can oil lamp. I made this about, I’d say, two years ago because I wanted a flame for melting wax and just burning stuff. I really wanted a bunsen burner but, like a […]
So I’ve built my Firecracker Dispenser out of wood and with tighter tolerances. This version, version 2, is better constructed than version 1, but I am still having problems with jamming. This version is made out of 1/8″ balsa wood. It’s the exact same design as the first version, it is now just made out […]
It has been by goal for a few years to design and build a machine that will hold multiple firecrackers, dispense them one by one, and then light them. Not only would this be really cool to just set on the ground and let it run, but my end goal with this idea will be […]