Tesla Coils are always a blast to see and are relativity simple to build. While there are plenty of sites on the subject, [Michael’s] newest instructable breaks building a solid state Tesla Coil ...

My fondest Tesla coil memories began as wee tod playing Command & Conquer: Red Alert. I would build chains of these things to fry every oncoming Russian infantry unit. Here’s a handy step-by ...

Obvious warning: Don't let your kid play with this. Hell, you probably shouldn't play with it. But this DIY project could make a great, but deadly, weekend project. Basically, it is comprised of a ...

US basement hacker Rob Flickenger has developed an incredible 20,000-volt Tesla coil lightning-blasting Nerf gun ...

You can find more photos of this Tesla gun over at Rob's Flickr set. Via Portable DIY Tesla Coil Gun Shoots 20,000 Volts of Lightning! on fear-of-lightning.wonderhowto.com.

Who doesn't want their own Tesla coil? Particularly if you can get one that isn't incredibly dangerous or expensive to build. Well, this electrical savant built one in the 8th grade using vacuum ...

DIY Projects You Built What?!: A Tesla Coil Gun That Produces Foot-Long Sparks Modeled after a Nerf gun--but with 200,000 volts under the hood Gregory Mone Oct 8, 2012 5:00 PM EDT ...

The folks who successfully crowdfunded a DIY singing Tesla coil kit last year have taken to Kickstarter again to bring a smaller version into production. Like its older and bigger brother, the ...

All you’ll need is a Tesla Coil, the high-voltage, low-current gadget invented by Nikola Tesla in the late 1800s. What, you don’t have a Tesla Coil lying around the house?

Rob’s Tesla gun is powered by an 18 volt drill battery and uses a spark gap Tesla coil. The body of the gun itself is a Nerf gun, cast in aluminium.

Tesla coils are awesome. But if you’ve ever built one, you know how tedious winding the secondary coil is. So [Krux] decided to build a machine to do it for him. He’s currently working on his ...

Hacker Rob Flickenger has built a real-life version of the Tesla gun from graphic novel “The Five Fists of Science.” The gun produces 100,000 volts of electricity.