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Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros Theme
This is so awesome. If you love Tesla Coils like I do, and even if you don’t, you will think this is cool.
From Youtube
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI.
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 programed into the computer software. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Video was captured by Terry Blake. What is not obvious is how loud the coils are. They are well over 110dB.
2 Responses to “Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros Theme”
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November 7th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
That was really cool!
November 9th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
My first thought? “If you love tesla coils like I do”….Oh my - there are no words. You are such a nerd.
But it is pretty cool, whatever tesla coils are…