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 ...

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 ...

Invented by Nikola Tesla in the late 19th century, the Tesla coil is made up of two or more coupled resonant electric circuits and is capable of generating extremely high voltage, low current, high ...

When our ears resolve spatial information, we do so at the higher treble frequencies rather than the bass. Thus when setting up your home cinema you can put the subwoofer almost anywhere, but the main ...

Elon Musk has been defending elevator music lately and now he wants Tesla to build a new feature so its cars can play elevator music through their external speakers and spread the joy of jazz around.

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 ...