Nov 9 2007Tesla Coils Playing Super Mario Bros Theme
There have been musical Tesla coils in the past (even ones that play part of the Super Mario Bros theme from the underworld), but until now I've never seen two together playing the entire Super Mario theme.
The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programmed into the computer software.
They play at over 110 dB, making them pretty f'ing loud. I wish I could play Super Mario Bros that loud, but I'm working with a 13" TV and only one of the built-in speakers works. Ghetto you say? No sir. Ghetto is buying a used conversion van and parking it outside your apartment to use as a "honeymoon suite" where the kids can't disturb you. Not that I did that or anything. Except I did.
Everyone have a great weekend and don't work too hard.
thanks to Frank, Billy Avenue, and my Personal Jesus Robot for the tips
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Reader Comments
1. Magoo - November 9, 2007 3:12 PM
FIRSTS LMFFAO ok so that was pretty sweet but would be sweeter if they had a guy in a mario suit getting the shit zaped out of him self
2. guate6 - November 9, 2007 3:22 PM
Tesla products/inventions rock.
3. Cannibalcandy - November 9, 2007 3:57 PM
That is so F'n cool!
4. Personal Robot Jesus - November 9, 2007 4:24 PM
Wait...Personal Jesus Robot?
DOPPELGANGER!
5. Joe Mamma - November 9, 2007 5:18 PM
Does anyone else get that ad from microsoft with a fat pasty white girl with purple hair. WTF is that about. Geekologie, what kind of ads to you allow on here. that is the worst ad model I have every seen.
6. Joe Mamma - November 9, 2007 5:19 PM
Her name is angela and she is apparently a "tester" for Xbox live. Wow!
7. Necromanson - November 9, 2007 9:03 PM
That was one of the coolest things I've seen all week.
8. blizzy - November 9, 2007 10:33 PM
You should get out more...
9. PooPants - November 10, 2007 5:33 AM
I could watch that forever.
10. bigorangehippo - November 10, 2007 2:55 PM
It would be a pretty sad to get electrocuted to death during the Mario theme.
11. RandomNigel - November 10, 2007 3:49 PM
That's pretty freaking awesome.
12. gia - November 10, 2007 3:52 PM
wooow!! awesome!
13. Natasha - November 10, 2007 7:55 PM
indeedy
14. ilovejb - November 10, 2007 8:04 PM
This is one of the oldest things I have ever seen. OMG is this old. Holy crap it is sooooo old. This was old like 3 years ago. My grandma said she saw this shit right before D-Day. Holy shit is it so old. F*** this writer sucks. His stuff is old.
15. opinionHatednominator - November 11, 2007 9:55 PM
'Wow, this isn't boring.'
Thats what I had typed before I actually watched the video. I've seen this done before, so I thought it would be nothing new. But this is pretty cool. Thanks
16. opinionHatednominator - November 11, 2007 10:00 PM
Goddamn, I see there is still always people whining about how old certain things are on this site. But I think you miss a point: Everyone might not have seen it, and some things are worthy of a revisit. Everyone up until ilovejb was just expressing how cool it was. Damn, reminds me why I quit coming here. That and the other stuff.
17. Thiss - November 12, 2007 1:44 AM
Opinionjatednominator is on a tear! I'm just chewin' on beets, listenin' to him rant. That's my boy!
18. The Ninja - November 12, 2007 3:28 AM
Wow, that video is rly old. Din't you already post this around xmas last year?
19. White667 - November 12, 2007 8:51 AM
Haha, kickass,
20. jumpin_j - November 12, 2007 11:33 AM
Huh huh... uh huh huh... uh, it sounds like farts... huh huh... that's coooool.
21. Kari - March 26, 2009 4:08 PM
There needs to be an electric world in mario that uses this for the song.