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Make: Fire
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Make: Fire

by Tim Deagan
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
11h 5m
English
Make: Community
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11 Arduino Control

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I’m the first person to get excited about the thrill of creating a huge fireball in the sky. But once you’ve built your boosh and are looking for something more, what’s next? For many, this will involve bigger valves and higher pressures, but I’ve always been interested in other dimensions of flame effects.

The solenoid valve we’ve used for the boosh turns on and off, and it opens and closes. That may sound limited, but it’s also binary. Manipulating binary values is the heart of the computer revolution, so clearly there’s a world of things you can do with 1s and 0s.

The possibilities, once your boosh is under programmatic ...

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