Scyence: Chemistry, engineering, and pyrotechnics.

Calcium Carbide miner’s lamp

This is an extremely inaccurate recreation of a calcium carbide mining lamp, which would be used…
RC Missile tank

So, I worked on this project for many, many months. I learned how to 3d model…
Handheld fireball launcher

Around the time that the fireball cannon turned out to be such a failure, I got…
Fireball cannon

There are two main types of nitrocellulose: flash paper and guncotton. Flash paper is the paper…
Fireball glove

After taking apart an electric lighter, I removed the tiny transformer from the circuit board and…
copper nitrate paper

This is a paper towel soaked in copper nitrate solution. Copper nitrate, unlike most nitrates, makes…
Magnesium flare

Extremely basic, this “flare” is just dry rocket candy with a tiny magnesium ribbon. Since magnesium…
“Mini sun” powder

Originally designed to be a safe, legal thermite alternative before I realised that thermite alternatives aren’t…
Electric lighter

This is very similar to one of my previous creations, the handheld high-voltage generator. The only…
Handheld high voltage generator

This device is scarily easy to make. A simple 9v battery hooked up to a basic…
Titanium sparkler

A dry powder mix inside a paper tube with a base. The powder mix is 50%…
Rocket candy smoke bomb version one

After grinding 65% KNO3(potassium nitrate) and 35% sugar by weight into fine powders with a mortar…