Jun 20 2007Solid State Musical Tesla Coil
Ever seen a Tesla coil make music before? You have now. This is a solid state musical Tesla coil. Tesla coils normally operate at a frequency inaudible to human ears, but the musical Tesla coil produces sound by rapidly turning on and off at audible frequencies. Similar to how a fart works, only not similar at all and completely different.
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Reader Comments
1. PRguitarman - June 20, 2007 6:37 PM
I was half expecting someone to get struck down by a lightning coil. I am dissapointed.
2. Vink - June 20, 2007 6:52 PM
"soop mahreeyo!"
3. glib - June 20, 2007 7:26 PM
this looks as fake as yer grandmas perky tata's
4. RACHEL! - June 20, 2007 7:47 PM
Oh.. uhm cool?
Looks kinda deadly and I don't understand it at all though but cool!
5. BrachiosaurusDad - June 20, 2007 9:25 PM
I think I saw the Mind Freak guy in the backround studying it. Chris Angel is suck a B.A. dude.
6. BrachiosaurusDad - June 20, 2007 9:27 PM
such*
P.S. could somebody tell me if that last song was from Tetris.
7. ajax - June 20, 2007 9:56 PM
it is
8. Berzerker - June 20, 2007 11:45 PM
wow, that was lame. it would have been cool if the notes actually went in sync with the electric bolts.
9. Cait - June 20, 2007 11:47 PM
I hope Beck uses that on his next album.
10. SuperStoned420 - June 21, 2007 2:30 AM
Join the Geekologie community, where bullshit articles are given a second chance to not matter again.
11. Wrath - June 21, 2007 4:56 AM
@10 - you win the internet.
gg everyone. might as well just log out now.
12. chris - June 21, 2007 7:28 AM
Are you people f***ing crazy? That might be the coolest f***ing thing I've ever seen in my life.
13. Moranius - June 21, 2007 7:53 AM
@12: Assuming you were blind for your entire life and then the miracle happened and the first thing you saw was this... THEN it might be the coolest f***ing thing you've ever seen in your puny life.
14. super cool dude - June 21, 2007 8:18 AM
nah. this pretty much is the coolest thing backyard science has ever created.
15. fatfingers - June 21, 2007 11:51 AM
#3, you're dreaming.
#8, they are in sync.
16. Joe Mamma - June 21, 2007 1:54 PM
This is just shocking!
17. pearl182 - June 22, 2007 9:48 AM
i think theres a guy at the side playing a keyboard. if not its pretty cool. the mario theme is the best. i can tell because the crowd cheered. and theyre probably scientists!!
18. 1-Ton - June 22, 2007 1:53 PM
Everybody goes nuts for the Super Mario Bros. music.
Whatever. Can it play "Modern Day Cowboy"? Cuz if it cant, then I'll just stick with the "real" Tesla, thank you.
19. Greg - June 23, 2007 11:31 AM
Ahh....its C&C Red Alert all over again. Damn Soviets!
20. john - June 24, 2007 12:11 AM
Why would someone comment if they haven't got a clue what they're talking about?
They're very real, you can build them yourself:
http://tacashi.tripod.com/elctrncs/ssstc/ssstc.htm
http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/sstate.html
21. betch - June 25, 2007 11:11 AM
they should get one of those to play at a huuuuge rave but then they'll sneakily make it strike into the crowd and roast some of the E'd out folk. see how they like the feeling of THAT. yeah it's like the ultimate prank.
22. aaron - July 2, 2007 3:58 PM
Are you nuts Bech? thats not even funny that would kill somone. did you not notice the boundary take in between the bright flashes.
Jean Michele Jarre would love that, if you know who he is xD
23. aaron - July 3, 2007 1:46 PM
17. pearl182 - It is a person playing a keyboard in the background, where do you think the notes come from thin air.
The keyboard provides the notes and this goes through a modulator that converts it to electrical pulses, this output is then played through the Tesla coil. Think of the Tesla coil as the speakers.
24. jakebarnes - July 6, 2007 12:35 PM
Jack White should have built this
25. GaritD - July 8, 2007 3:25 AM
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen too!
Screw having a pool in your back yard! Id rather have a freaking musical tesla. Maybe it will zap some bugs while its at it!
26. Lightbringer - January 15, 2009 4:23 PM
Actually, they're fairly safe - and, for those who don't believe, Google it. The science behind it is really quite simple.