If you’ve ever wanted to build a Tesla coil but found them to be prohibitively expensive and/or complicated, look no further! [Richard] has built a solid-state Tesla coil that has a minimum of parts ...

Educational electronics kits like the one from Minty Geek are a great introduction to the world of circuit building and electronic tinkering, but are perhaps a little too basic for more advanced ...

Tesla coils have been used for all kinds of different reasons in entertainment. For decades, they’ve been making certain cinematic moments cooler, from the original Frankenstein to The Prestige. But ...

There's epic, and then there's epic. A 40 minute remix of popular songs, played on tesla coils? That's the latter. After all, everything's better with lightning! Thanks to the Open Spark Project (OSP) ...

[Zach Armstrong] presents for your viewing pleasure a simple guide to building a solid-state Tesla coil. The design is based around a self-resonant setup using the UCC2742x gate driver IC, which is ...

The reverberations of the announcer's amplified voice fade into the darkened auditorium, and the last few cheers from the crowd are cut off by a sizzling buzz. In the center of the stage, awash in ...

This Tesla coil resonates in the 41KHz range, and is further modulated so the sparks actually create music. A square wave (perfect for 8 bit music) is fed to the circuit to control the pitch. The ...

There were so many amazing moments during Bjork's performance of Biophilia at the New York Hall of Science this week: the four pendulum harps that made music, the dome-shaped wok-looking instrument ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself has dropped hints that the car and energy company wants to also offer its own musical solution for playlists in the car, and now we have more evidence that’s on its way.