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) ...

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 ...

The internet is obsessed with two songs and two songs only. But for different reasons. The first is Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” It’s a bad song that garners a lot of ironic admiration. It’s silly and it ...

One of our tipsters stumbled across a pretty impressive video of a giant Tesla coil playing music — in a snowy forest! The forum showing off the video is in Finnish but Google Translate does a pretty ...

On display at Maker Faire 2009, Interactivation is a whimsical, slightly non-sensical cross between a six-way collaborative music machine and a Tesla coil, producing improvised sounds and scientific ...

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 ...

The era of fan-played game music has just ended, thanks to this video. Can your nerdcore, forget your a cappella renditions of classic video game themes, and cancel your tour, because these people ...