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 results in the video below. To create a metal plasma ...

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 even worse. [Learnelectronics] ...

Does a 1/4 wavelength Tesla Coil produce DC instead of AC? Someone said coils with a physical length of 1/4 wavelength will produce pulsed DC instead of high frequency AC. In other words, they said ...

By: Mehdi Sadaghdar This video includes a 5 million announcement and documents the creation and testing of a Tesla Coil magic wand. 3D files for the wand are available. 0:00 Intro — 5 Million Announce ...

Sometimes, all it takes to push the boundaries of science is a wacky idea and a machine to prove it. Greg Leyh, founder of Lightning On Demand (LOD), may do just that, with plans to build two, ...

This video follows the step-by-step build of a powerful, portable, see-through acrylic Tesla coil, shown as a tabletop ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. Chen Wenge from Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with Prof. Ma Yanwei's research group from the Institute ...

Typing “Tesla Coil” in Google, yields more than 563,000 results, many describing the Tesla Coil as the premiere wireless energy transfer technology of the 20th Century that never quite became ...

DIY hacking has given us some great things -- a Raspberry Pi turned mini Super Nintendo, a Kinect sensor turned 3D archaeological scanner. But now, US basement hacker Rob Flickenger has given us ...