{"id":1374,"date":"2018-09-11T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escapelab.net\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:02:31","slug":"metroids-arm-cannons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"How to turn your arm into a laser cannon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWf7ylbGtNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s ever played any of Nintendo\u2019s <i> Metroid<\/i> games has only wanted to know one thing\u2014how can I turn my arm into a laser cannon? Series protagonist and badass bounty hunter Samus Aran has turned her body into a weapon and, despite the impractically of giving over your entire left arm to destruction, the arm cannon has become an iconic element of the character and a staple of those cosplaying her. Many have made armcannons. Few have made arm cannons that fire a laser powerful enough to cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>YouTuber Hyperlon is one of the few to master the art of the damaging arm cannon and he\u2019s uploaded a video of himself using the machine to kill balloons. After a satisfying light and sound show as the laser builds up, the balloons pop as if they were genetically engineered Metroids caught in Samus&#8217; beam.<\/p>\n<p>But there are many other attempts to replicate the famous arm cannon.<\/p>\n<p>In the following video another youtuber creates a more complex design.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPGEEVhj8b4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who\u2019s ever played any of Nintendo\u2019s Metroid games has only wanted to know one thing\u2014how can I turn my arm into a laser cannon? Series protagonist and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}