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Posted:Check out this article in Wired magazine, about the vapore capillary-action pump. No moving parts, and it feeds a supply of liquid and atomizes it. Stick one (or several) of these on a small fuel bottle and you've got a replacement for a standard wick.
Could be very cool, one of these days--very little weight apart from the fuel, and in theory, you should be able to control flame size, burn time, etc, very precisely. I probably won't be experimenting with these anytime real soon, but one of these days, maybe.
Could be very cool, one of these days--very little weight apart from the fuel, and in theory, you should be able to control flame size, burn time, etc, very precisely. I probably won't be experimenting with these anytime real soon, but one of these days, maybe.
Laugh while you can, monkey-boy
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Posted:Veeery interesting, 
another possibiltity is to have a cluster of fuel containers in a rose pattern, each one with a different fuel or coloured fuel mix in it, a small programmable controller could then give you coured flame sequences as you spin.
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Or,
you could have the controller linked to an accellerometer so that the colour of the flame changes as the velocity of the poi head increases.
Hmmm, indeedy yes
*wanders away with a dangerous glint in his eye
, soon followed by worried people with fire extinguishers*
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another possibiltity is to have a cluster of fuel containers in a rose pattern, each one with a different fuel or coloured fuel mix in it, a small programmable controller could then give you coured flame sequences as you spin.
. O O
O O O
. O O
Or,
you could have the controller linked to an accellerometer so that the colour of the flame changes as the velocity of the poi head increases.Hmmm, indeedy yes
*wanders away with a dangerous glint in his eye
, soon followed by worried people with fire extinguishers*EDITED_BY: squarefish (1070397952)
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Posted:LOL at Squarefish... 
Take a simple idea that will probably work, and make it so complicated that it's bound to stuff up...
(Intersting idea Adam, I look forward to seeing where this goes in other applications as well)
Take a simple idea that will probably work, and make it so complicated that it's bound to stuff up...
(Intersting idea Adam, I look forward to seeing where this goes in other applications as well)
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Posted:Ugh, first our glow toys get On/Off switches, now our fire poi? What has this world come to!
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Posted:Really Charles,
things rarely "stuff up" in my exprience, they just explode in your face
Thats why crowds love us; lots of skill and lots of sexy dangerous FIRE
Besides if things weren't made more complex or if we were afraid of stuffing things up, we'd still be wearing furs and poking at fires with sticks, instead of spinning it 'round our heads like the crazed pyromaniac monkeys that we are....
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things rarely "stuff up" in my exprience, they just explode in your face
Thats why crowds love us; lots of skill and lots of sexy dangerous FIRE Besides if things weren't made more complex or if we were afraid of stuffing things up, we'd still be wearing furs and poking at fires with sticks, instead of spinning it 'round our heads like the crazed pyromaniac monkeys that we are....
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