
The Fire writer combines an ink jet printer with a blowtorch to burn
images onto surfaces. Butane and propane are burned at 1,200C to
create black and white images pixel for pixel.
The tool, invented at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, burns a mixture of butane and propane at 1,200C to create the images but does not set surfaces on fire. A user holds the Fire writer up against the surface they want to print on, and then guides it horizontally along using calibrated wheels. Mr Langton said: 'Fire writer is a machine using contemporary rapid prototyping electronics combined with humanity’s first technology: fire,' he said. The machine was constructed by Lucien Langton at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne
The tool, invented at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, burns a mixture of butane and propane at 1,200C to create the images but does not set surfaces on fire. A user holds the Fire writer up against the surface they want to print on, and then guides it horizontally along using calibrated wheels. Mr Langton said: 'Fire writer is a machine using contemporary rapid prototyping electronics combined with humanity’s first technology: fire,' he said. The machine was constructed by Lucien Langton at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne

Wheels enable the user to lower the printer one line at a time on the
vertical axis using a support. Lucien Langton said he wanted to combine the
oldest technology known to man with more modern technology.' The purpose is to propose a dialogue
between image reproduction and its destruction.'
The Fire writer works by feeding an image into the
processing script, which writes a wiring code that can be compiled and sent
onto the Arduino board. It has
wheels that enable the user to lower the printer one line at a time on the
vertical axis on a support. The duration, strength and precision of the
flame can be controlled in real-time manually with a pitch. As this terrifying 'blowtorch printer' that
uses FIRE to burn messages onto wood Fire
writer burns black and white images onto surfaces. Contraption is
rolled up a sheet of wood, scorching a pattern as it goes. Butane
and propane burn at 1,200C without setting surfaces on fire.

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