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Duo Build Flame Throwing Bot for Science Fair

by Terrence O'Brien on June 20, 2009 at 03:25 PM

Duo Build Flame Throwing Bot for Science Fair
It's no secret. We here at Switched are a bunch of major nerds. If you knew any of us in grammar school, you probably beat us up for our lunch money. For a few short hours, though, every year, we were kings (and queens) when it came time for the science fair. But, even we couldn't have come up with a science fair project as cool as this flame-throwing robot constructed by a couple of aspiring engineers.

Few details are known about the project, but a reader of TechEBlog submitted a video of the bad-ass bot in action, torching a cardboard house (head to TechEBlog to see the video). It's based on a VEX Robotics kit, and uses a can of WD-40 to fuel its flame thrower.

Sadly, we have no names, no school, not even a general region of the country where the duo resides. But we do know that this killer project is in no danger of ending up on a list of hilarious (unintentionally or otherwise) science projects. In our humble, but informed, opinions, this thing has definitely earned itself a spot in the science fair hall of fame. [From: TechEBlog]

Tags: flame thrower, FlameThrower, robot, science, science fair, ScienceFair, top, weird

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