Massive Bottle Rocket Mayhem
Answering the musical question: What would it be like to light over 200 bottle rockets at the same time?
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A different kind of pyro art
Rosemarie Fiore makes a different kind of fire art. She uses controlled detonations of fireworks on paper to disperse bursts of saturated color. Rosemarie tells MAKE how she does it: I bomb blank sheets of paper with different fireworks including color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, fountains, magic whips, spinning carnations, ground blooms, rings […]
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HOW TO – Blow stuff up
Hack n Mod has a round-up of deadly Don’t Try This At Home projects, such as building a flame thrower, smoke bombs, fireballs, mini (Hollywood) mushroom explosions, and more. I don’t know anything about pyro, so I’m not endorsing any of this, just thought readers might find it interesting. Personally, seeing a teenage wielding a […]
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Journal of Pyrotechnics
I just discovered the website for the Journal of Pyrotechnics: Issues of the Journal of Pyrotechnics [ISSN 1082-3999] appear twice a year. Early issues contained 40 to 50 pages. More recent issues contain 70 to 80 pages printed in 8-1/2×11″ format with medium-sized print. Areas of pyrotechnics addressed include fireworks, pyrotechnic special effects, propellants & […]
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Wireless fireworks launch controller
When I was a teen rocket geek, I had an almost fetishistic fascination with launch controllers. In our rocket club, we could afford only the most basic single button/key/light controllers wired to a car battery. But we could dream… about devices such as this beauty, a fully tricked-out 12-channel wireless control system for fireworks. DIY […]
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