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New York Senate passes ban on Elon Musk’s Not-A-Flamethrower

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If you live in New York state and bought one of The Boring Company's Not-A-Flamethrowers, you probably want to get rid of it shortly. The state's Senate recently passed a bill that bans the possession of a flamethrower for recreational purposes, and...

Guy Builds Flamethrower to Remove Snow: Overkill Much?

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Shoveling snow is really bad for your back. It’s also the cause of heart attacks for many people every year. Screw that. You wanna remove snow? You need fire. A guy from Grassy, Missouri recently built himself a flamethrower for quick snow removal. Hmmm. I wonder why they don’t sell this at Home Depot.

This baby will clean up the snow super fast and I’m sure it keeps him toasty warm. This builder says that ever since he was a kid he always wanted a flamethrower, and now that he’s older he made one out of spare parts, making his dream come true. It runs off a diesel and oil mix and is powered by CO2. He’s a simple man who hates snow and loves fire. This flamethrower burns five gallons of diesel in about ten minutes and has quick change tips to fan the spray or stream it for long distances of up to fifty feet.

Pretty sweet. Now I want to see him create a Mad Max flamethrower snow plow so he can look like a comet barreling down the street. I love the smell of burning asphalt on a winter morning!

[via Geekologie]

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Colin Furze Builds Alexa Voice-activated Flamethrower

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Madman builder Colin Furze continues to add to his arsenal of dangerous playthings. This time, he designed and built Alexa voice-activated flamethrower. This guy never stops building insane things that could put him in the hospital. Or worse. I guess we can all vicariously live through him so that we don’t have to face the danger.

To be honest, this thing less of a flamethrower and more of a jet flames downward situation. If your coffee machine switched from dripping coffee down into your cup to shooting fire down into it, this is what it would look like – minus the visit from the fire department. You can skip to 7:30 in the video if you just want to see the thing in action and don’t care about how he built it.

Also, I just want to say, you shouldn’t ever give Alexa fire. I mean, one minute you’re playing the Talking Heads’ “Burning down the House” and the next your house is burning. Not cool, Alexa. Not cool at all.

[via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

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Elon Musk Is Now Selling Flamethrowers

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Elon Musk continues to make the world a better place. The latest way that he’s doing this? Flamethrowers. After weeks of teases, Elon Musk has confirmed that his tunnel-drilling company The Boring Company is selling a flamethrower for the likes of you and me.

There are 20,000 of these weapons for sale. And yes, they are actually legal. Musk says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allows throwers with flames shorter than 10 feet, so this one is perfect. Thank you Elon Musk, for putting a legal firestick in my hands. I promise to try very very hard to stay out of trouble. We are talking fire though, so we will see.

It is being called the “world’s safest” flamethrower. But if you still have your doubts, there’s also a branded fire extinguisher available for $30. A pre-order will set you back $500.

Musk did say that he would sell a flamethrower when Boring Company hats sold out, and it looks like he is keeping his word. I don’t think anyone took him seriously when he made that comment, but here we are. Flamethrowers! Or as I like to call it, a $500 dollar grill starter. So who else is getting one of these bad boys?

[via Engadget]

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Punch-activated Flamethrowers are the Best Kind of Flamethrowers

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Who doesn’t like flamethrowers? Everybody but space bugs and fire extinguishers, that’s who. Now, Allen Pan of Sufficiently Advanced just went and made the best flamethrowers ever. You see, these wrist-mounted fire shooters activate their wearer throws a punch. Awesomesauce!

Allen created these punch-activated flamethrowers as a tribute to the firebending in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Their core design is basically a butane fuel chamber and a solenoid valve, combined with a modified arc-based lighter to spark it to life. An Arduino Pro Mini controller and an accelerometer detect the punch movement, and trigger the spark and the valve when it’s time to fire up.

But enough tech talk. I know you want to see them in action, so here goes:

If you dare play with fire yourself (and I’m not advocating this), drop by Allen’s page over on Hackster.IO, where he’s putting together a complete DIY build log for these amazing wrist weapons.

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Finally, A Literal Fire Truck

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Fire trucks, by their very name, should start fires, not put them out. So tinkerer PeterSripol upgraded a toy fire truck with a functional flamethrower so that at least one these vehicles can live up to its name. And boy does it ever. This thing is all about the flame.

He not only added the ability to spew fire, but also upgraded the cheap toy’s R/C components. Now it has better speed and steering capabilities. All the better to burn things with. This thing just zips around in a trail of fire and burns everything in its path.

There should be a Transformer that does this. I might watch those Michael Bay movies if there was.

[via Sploid]

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