My friend Jerome that got me into my first burn event reached out the other day saying he wanted to build his first fire poofer project with me. It's gonna be the perfect occasion to use my welding skills and learn the basics of poofing. We've been on a little workshop a few years ago, but we'll need a little research to build it out. He graduated as an electrical engineer and is an amazing researcher/planner so I feel it will go well. We're meeting this weekend to brainstorm an idea. He's also a world traveling minimalist nomad so I'm pretty sure I'll get to keep the piece when we're done. And we'll get it mostly financed with an art grant, i'm certain. Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Excited by this project, I've been trying to think of cool ideas. Maybe a motorcyle with the poofer out the exhaust activated by the throttle? Or a sunflower (ukraine's national flower) - with the yellow petals being the flames? I wonder what ideas Jerome has got, he's pretty creative too.
I did a class on building fire poofers, and had a good time with it. But didn't build one, in the end. However, the people I know who build these things like this guys' simple, direct instructions, images, and videos: https://foxfuramused.com/2011/10/12/fire-toys/