Flamethrower Robot: Phobos
This robot was originally designed to be an overhead flamethrower, but it wasn't particularly effective. I redesigned the robot to be a cam lifter flamethrower later on. The robot uses a butane can and a solenoid valve, as well as a hot surface igniter.
This version of Phobos shoots fire from above. I worked with a few team members in the club on this version, I focused primarily on the flamethrower system. For this version, a nichrome wire was used to ignite the butane.
This is the second version of Phobos, which I worked on alone. I designed and built the robot entirely, and designed it to be a flamethrower cam lifter, which is able to lift robots five times heavier then it. The solenoid valve system was suboptimal, so for this version a servo was used to push on the back of the butane canister. The solenoid valve didn't work out that great as pressure would build up, and the cold butane would spit it and cool the hot surface igniter.