James Roland Jones

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In Hermosa Beach, CA, 33-year-old James Roland Jones has built a working plasma gun, which he intends to sell on his website.  The former SpaceX engineer, and employee of Elon Musk, has put his ingenuity to the test to see if he can accomplish something that has never been done.  The first prototypes are complete, and the site is live and accepting orders, but what sparked such a unique idea? Where did you come up with this idea? In 2018, I ended up getting one of Elon Musk’s flamethrowers for the Boring Company.  The flamethrower was certainly a fun toy, and whenever friends would visit, we would inevitably get out the flamethrower.  After a while, I got tired of playing with the flamethrower and wanted to make something even cooler.  I had seen people on YouTube make “plasma guns” online, but all their guns looked like they had been made from a home improvement store.  I knew I could make something better. How long did it take you to make the first version?  It took me a while to fi

James Roland Jones is a journalist going inside SpaceX, Blue Origin, and all things spaces to understand what makes these companies so exciting. Elon Musk leads as an engineer for SpaceX, and James Roland Jones seeks to understand why he's able to create some of the top technology in the space industry. As a fan and a journalist, James Roland Jones wants to bring the best perspective for people to understand what it takes to engineer the rockets at SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others. James Roland Jones comes from Hermosa Beach, CA, and studied engineering and journalism at UCLA in California. He seeks to show what the inside of these companies look like, and what makes them so great.