Explosion picture

[aquaman]

rome112 welcome to the site.

 

Now since you're just starting out, just look through this site. It will answer "almost" every question that you might have, you'll just have to search for them. You can look in the Member Tutorial section to see step by step instructions on how to make things.

 

Here's a quick list on what you should try first.

 

Smoke, Black Powder (BP), fountains, ground blooms, stars, roman candles, whistlers, star mines, rockets, whistling rockets, aerial shells, firecrackers/salutes.

 

I have the Tom Perigrin's "Introductory Practical Pyrotechnics" and it is very good book for someone that is just starting out. It tells/shows you how to make most of the things that I listed above. It may cost alot for a book but is well worth it.

[h0lx]

Would If I could have h0lx but I couldn't copy the picture!

how about a screenshot+cut?

[RUUUUUN]

Just a hint:

 

You will get a better reaction from these people if you DON'T ask to be spoonfed. Such as saying, here is a sweet pic of an explosion, does anyone know how to make it? No one here could really answer that, unless there were some specs given W/ the pic because a fireball is well... a fireball, who knows if the explosive is going High order or Low order.

 

Learning how to use multiple search engines is extremely useful, and don't trust everything on Wiki.

 

I have found that researching for weeks for something before asking a question on it will get you a better reaction.

 

The "Sciencemadness discussion board" has pretty much everything related to pyrotechnics and technochemistry, that is a very large info resource.

 

If you think I am preaching at you, DEAL WITH IT! It will save you forum life.

[tentacles]

"these people"?!?! I always knew you weren't one of us! ;P

[rome112]

I geuss I was a little too enthusiastic to start.

 

Since my first post I have experimented with coffee creamer to observe the way it burns over a candle. I was not aware of how it would react, sure enough it burns well.

 

The PDF's are a big help, has lots of starter info that helps me understand the serious art of this trade. Looks like I have to make some room next to my eletronics bench for some equiptment. I home to make something to be proud of before the next fourth of july.

 

Thanks guys

[rome112]

Sorry to bother you h0lx but how do you do a screenshot?

[deadman]

A google search would have answered your questiong a bit faster, but if you want to take a picture of what you screen is showing press the button on the far right region of your keyboard that says Print Screen/ Sys Req. It then copies the picture of your screen to your clipboard. You can then use a image editing program such as paint to paste and save the picture. From there you can delete the unwanted parts of the screen and have a picture of whatever you want.

 

Here is what a google search brought me to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Screen

[flying fish]

In case you don't know this part:

 

From there, you use an image hosting site like www.photobucket.com to upload the image. then you post either the picture's web link, or use the IMG in brackets thing to post the picture directly in the thread...(you'll see what I mean when you go onto photobucket)

 

Takes a little longer than posting a link and saying "find the picture yourself", but you'll get better responses . Especially when it's a site no one here wants to actually see.

[rome112]

So thats what that buttons for. Cool! thanks Geuss my electroncs career did not show me everything about my computers. I heard of photo bucket a while back but I never checked it out or knew ho it worked.