Whey up! So to get you excited about Intel America's greatest makers, Im undertaking
projects to do with guitars, because making stuff, that's not just about making a cool product or
making your life easier, but giving yourself a good feeling! After asking you for suggestions,
you pretty much all unanimously said FIRE! but you know what they say,
'there's no smoke without fire', so it's a bit of a warm-up project,
I'm going to concentrate on the smoke! So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make
this base smoke and also to top it off, to add to the effect, I'm going to cover it in strobe
lights! So it'll be like (sound effects) smoke and flashing! Me, I'll be like ba ba ba ba ba!
There we are, let's get on with it! OK, got the stuff, got a smoke machine, got some tubing,
now we could've used smoke pellets, but you light it once, ten seconds of smoke and then it's all
over. Smoke machine, this will keep kicking out smoke all day if you want it. But, there
is a few problems connected the smoke machine up to my tube, let rip a load of smoke down it,
what does it do, all kind of condensates in the pipe and nearly melts it as well,
so you don't actually get any smoke out the end of the pipe. So I thought, ah I have an
idea! I made this, this is basically this little injector tube, which just fires a little bit of
air down the pipe as well, it just helps the smoke tickle along, comes out the end nicely,
that worked. but we've got a little problem now, need an air compressor with me. That's no good,
they're massive and they make a lot of noise. I don't like that. So, the solution, little PC fan,
so just need to make a manifold that goes on, the smoke goes into, woohoo!
Yes, okay that's the smoke machine end done, what about the guitar? Now this is kind of my little
test. Pretend this is the guitar, this is the back of it. I've routed some slots up out the back,
drilled some holes through to behind the strings, and then you'll kind of put a plate over it
with the smoke machine coming in on a tube on the angle and then when you press the smoke,
it will come in, it will go along the slots, through the holes and then out the other side
of the guitar, behind the strings. okay, now let's apply it to the real thing!
Base lovers everywhere be like..ah!
Now as lovely these holes are, they don't really looked very nice, so I'm gonna get
some nice shiny pate, kind of suspend it above the face of the guitar and this
will help disperse the smoke. Rather than it coming out in little plumes, it will kind of
just appear from behind the strings, as if the guy's playing so hard his fingers are on fire!
ah that's better! Now so we'll have a nice dispersal of smoke coming out down ere,
but let's not neglect the rest of the instrument. Let's see if we can get a little bit coming out
of the head and maybe some coming down the neck. So I propose we put a tube down here
and then kind of link it in to the little grooves coming here for the smoke to come in.
Yeah that's got the tube done running down the neck,
which will bring smoke to our head. Just under this little plate here. Now I've not
connected it to anything this end on the guitar, because there's going to be a plate which is
going to cover up the valleys where the smoke is going to go,
but also want to put the strobe lights in, the cables from that are gonna want covering up
as well, so that's the next job, put the strobe lights in. I think we'll have two at the top,
one at the bottom and some switches and stuff down here to control them all, yeah!
okay that's got the strobe out of its box,
got a little circuit board with a control knob, which controls the rate of strobing,
and then we're going to chop out some holes in a guitar, countersink these into it,
so they're nice and flush. So again just need to chop the guitar up even more.
There we are strobes all hidden. Got a load of wire's hanging out the back.
Next job chopping the little control knobs to control the strobe lights. Quite nice!
Brought the professional toolkit with me today!
There we are, got that lovely bit on there. Switches along the front there, very nice!
Now then to kind of tidy the smoke machine arrangement, I've done this with the amp.
Got a normal base amp, put this nice bit of stainless mesh on it,
kind of makes it look a bit more badass and basically what I've done, is lifted it up,
stuck the smoke machine underneath it, and then kind of tidied all the electrics up.
This little black book with the batteries in, a little switch, turn the fan on,
and then we've got the foot pedal thing which you can draw out which controls the smoke
machine. Now then, this is ready to rock, but of course remember, the number one suggestion, you
wanted to see a flame throwing guitar. So the next video is me making just that, and then
also you get to see both in action, amazing! But do not forget Intel's America's greatest makers,
it's all on at the moment, you can find out more here. See what sort of high-tech sniz
they've been up to, anyway rock and roll! That's a smoking base, now let's get ready for fire!
Thank you!