[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 ...

DIY hacking has given us some great things -- a Raspberry Pi turned mini Super Nintendo, a Kinect sensor turned 3D archaeological scanner. But now, US basement hacker Rob Flickenger has given us ...

Nikola Tesla. He was the man behind some of the greatest inventions of all time, including radio and alternating current. But perhaps his most visually fascinating invention is the Tesla coil. While ...

Electric bikes, and really all electric vehicles, have one major downside: the weight and cost of batteries. Even with lithium, battery packs for ebikes can easily weigh more than the bike itself and ...

The Tesla coil transforms an input voltage into brief pulses of extremely high voltages. Tesla's largest coil, built at his Colorado Springs lab in 1899, was 52 feet in diameter and generated pulses ...

In 1891, Nikola Tesla built a machine that could fire bolts of electricity through the air. His Tesla Coil became a symbol of wireless power—and raw electrical beauty. King vulture chick raised with ...

In 1891, Nikola Tesla built a machine that could fire bolts of electricity through the air. His Tesla Coil became a symbol of wireless power—and raw electrical beauty. Maddow Blog | As the shutdown ...

THE following phenomena, observed while experimenting with a small Tesla coil, will, I believe, interest some of your readers. Not having access to the necessary literature, I am not in a position to ...