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I was thinking today how to make a plasma launcher with a somewhat realistic firing effect, and a very, very simple idea came to me...
You would need to bore out the barrel on the launcher (of course), and also make a part towards the rear of it removable but also completely sealable. The internal would need to be lined with a thin sheet of metal, a passive (like aluminium, so it will not corrode in a hurry) because it will be exposed to flash heating (not enough to retain heat in the metal) and slight compression.
A chamber with a reservoir would be at the rear of the barrel, this is what you would need to access to "refill your ammo", ammo being a small amount of black powder or something similar, certain fireworks powder would be better because you could get coloured muzzle flash and smoke.
The ignition source is much simpler. A battery power source (am unsure on what voltage would be sufficient, but it would not be much) and fuses (if needed) could be hidden in the wrist computer, even powering it if you wanted to go down that road (and why wouldn't you) then you make a circuit out of copper wire from the battery, to a switch (which I would place in the finger of a glove, could be directly on the wrist computer but never seen a pred use his computer while casting plasma lol) and I would use a switch that only closed a circuit while pressed, not a toggle, could go either way though. The circuit would run through the arm, through the shoulder armour into the launcher, connected to a small lightbulb, with the casing removed exposing the coil. The coil would rest inside the reservoir you put the powder into.
Hit the switch, heat the coil, ignite the powder... then you should get a small but extremely impressive smoken muzzle flash from your plasma launcher
I would also imaging if you kept the bored barrel relatively slim you could build enough pressure to fire a NERF projectile, to add to dramatic effect.
You would need to bore out the barrel on the launcher (of course), and also make a part towards the rear of it removable but also completely sealable. The internal would need to be lined with a thin sheet of metal, a passive (like aluminium, so it will not corrode in a hurry) because it will be exposed to flash heating (not enough to retain heat in the metal) and slight compression.
A chamber with a reservoir would be at the rear of the barrel, this is what you would need to access to "refill your ammo", ammo being a small amount of black powder or something similar, certain fireworks powder would be better because you could get coloured muzzle flash and smoke.
The ignition source is much simpler. A battery power source (am unsure on what voltage would be sufficient, but it would not be much) and fuses (if needed) could be hidden in the wrist computer, even powering it if you wanted to go down that road (and why wouldn't you) then you make a circuit out of copper wire from the battery, to a switch (which I would place in the finger of a glove, could be directly on the wrist computer but never seen a pred use his computer while casting plasma lol) and I would use a switch that only closed a circuit while pressed, not a toggle, could go either way though. The circuit would run through the arm, through the shoulder armour into the launcher, connected to a small lightbulb, with the casing removed exposing the coil. The coil would rest inside the reservoir you put the powder into.
Hit the switch, heat the coil, ignite the powder... then you should get a small but extremely impressive smoken muzzle flash from your plasma launcher
I would also imaging if you kept the bored barrel relatively slim you could build enough pressure to fire a NERF projectile, to add to dramatic effect.
