(off screen) Hey, you're up! How was your nap?
(yawning)
Nap?
I don't remember laying down
(off screen) Well you've been asleep for hours
I have?
(off screen) You were locked in your workshop all day
and then you just came up here and passed out
I, uh ...
Workshop...?
(whispered) Hide!
(creepy Looney Tunes theme)
(BWAH)
(Joel Creates theme)
Hey, fellow creators! Welcome to Joel Creates
What you see in front of you is a
fire-breathing big Chungus
Now, What is a Chungus? you might ask
Well many would consider a Chungus to be a "dead meme"
but like the phoenix that rose from
the ashes this thing has actually started on fire a couple times
Turns out that building a reliably controlled fire-breathing device is a little bit
more of an undertaking than one might initially think
Here's the remote control for the Chungus
When I hit one switch I have some laser eyes that
turn on. These are just laser pointers that give it that sort of Terminator/
Predator look. When I hit this next switch what will happen is the clear
area of surrounding the laser eyes will actually light up red, a spark igniter
will start sparking, then we will get a blast of fire.
Let's step back and watch
Pretty cool, huh?
Let's take a little look at how this
actually works. This isn't really a do-it-yourself video because I wouldn't
recommend that anybody do this themselves but I did it
so let me just show you a little bit about how I did it. Here we have one of
those automatic air freshener dispensers. I've bypassed its controller and I've
got it wired directly to a power supply that's plugged in here. This power supply
is jumpered off of the AC input for this 12 volt power supply and those are both
controlled by this AC relay. When the 12 volt power supply turns on it sends
power to this relay. This relay is just a regular five pull 12 volt relay I have
it wired up to oscillate using a capacitor. There's a cool video that I
watch that kind of explain how to do that and I can link that for you if
you're really interested. So what that does is it quickly triggers the power on
and off which is that sound that you hear when it turns on and it gets sent
to this ignition coil this is just like a tractor ignition coil basically.
Power goes to the main coil through these contacts. That creates a magnetic field
which generates a voltage inside another coil and that voltage is much higher
that voltage you get sent out through these two wires with the power
disconnected for the dispenser and we activate this so the lights turn on
and the spark starts generating
The one relay just turns on the lasers, second AC relay activates the power
supply that powers a DC oscillating relay that powers the coil that goes up
to make the sparks and also sends power up to the red eyes and then the AC power
continues to this plug, turns on a five volt power supply and turns this motor
It's actually fairly simple once it's all laid out- it's not the most reliable
and like I said I had some issues when I tried putting in a stronger propellant
where it actually did start on fire and thankfully I did that outside because I
knew that it was much more dangerous than working with just this. If you do
ever undertake something like this- which I DO NOT recommend because it's
incredibly dangerous: canister could blow up, things could start on fire, I can lose
my eyesight, I could inhale it, I could shock myself terribly with the coil but
anybody who ever plays with fire should be prepared for the worst so really just
don't do this. Also, the ears broke off at one point so I had to
reattach those. I hope you've enjoyed watching and consider subscribing
because this is just the beginning. What did you think of the mock-horror movie
trailer? Why don't we go ahead and watch this
thing throw some more flames
(off screen, in Nord) Oh good, you're awake.