Another Tesla Coil Starts
Everyone interested in electronics should build at least one Tesla coil. But be careful. Sure, the high voltage can be dangerous, but the urge to build lots of coils is …read more Continue reading Another Tesla Coil Starts
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Everyone interested in electronics should build at least one Tesla coil. But be careful. Sure, the high voltage can be dangerous, but the urge to build lots of coils is …read more Continue reading Another Tesla Coil Starts
We’ve taken ICs apart before, but if they are in an epoxy package, it requires some lab gear and a lot of safety. Typically, you’ll heat the part and use …read more Continue reading No Acid: Open ICs with a Tesla Coil
Tesla coils are beautiful examples of high voltage hardware, throwing sparks and teaching us about all kinds of fancy phenomena. They can also be quite intimidating to build. [William Fraser], …read more Continue reading Build a Tesla Coil With Just Three Components
Sometimes the journey itself is the destination. This one started when [Samy] was 10 and his mom bought a computer. He logged on to IRC to talk with people about …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Samy Kamkar’s Glowing Breath
Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the …read more Continue reading Tesla Coil Makes Sodium Plasma
In our age of pervasive digital media, “pics or it didn’t happen” is a common enough cry that most of us will gladly snap a picture of pretty near anything …read more Continue reading Enjoy the Beauty of Corona Discharge with This Kirlian Photography Setup
Admittedly, not a lot of people have a regular need to varnish coils. It’s mainly something that Tesla coil builders and other high-voltage experimenters are concerned with. But since that …read more Continue reading Junkbox Build Keeps Tesla Coils Perfectly Varnished
In the world of audio there are a huge variety of esoteric technologies which are rarely seen. One such is the plasma tweeter, a type of loudspeaker which generates sound …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Plasma Tweeter For Ultimate Clarity
For several years now we’ve been following [Jay Bowles] as he brings high-voltage down to Earth on his Plasma Channel YouTube channel. From spark gaps made of bits of copper …read more Continue reading High Tech Pancake Tesla Coil Brings the Lightning
[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, …read more Continue reading A Builders Guide For The Perfect Solid-State Tesla Coil