Zaps from tesla coils sound like old school synthesisers, so they’re the perfect instrument of delivery for 8-bit video game and geek anthems. Plus, lightning.
If you didn’t think Star Wars Tesla Coil music even had multiple levels of greatness, I give you this: a guy conducting the Imperial March with Palpatine zaps from his fingers.
We have featured tesla coils music before but, if there’s a music piece these things were created for, that has to be the Imperial March. Someone put Luke in between those, please. [Star Wars Blog]
The most exiting way to cook hot dogs: connect a chain of 12 hotdogs up and send bolts of multi-thousand volt electricity through them. Awesome, and all thanks to the Nevada Lightning Lab and their 10-foot Tesla coil at Maker Faire ’08. And amazingly, the coil they used is just a prototype for a 122-foot version they want to build for lightning experiments. Imagine the light show and cookability you’d get from that! [Lightning Lab via Oh Gizmo]
