Shrinking on battery power
Remember the hockey puck of doom that powers the Tesla Gun? It’s a ZVS driver (also called a Royer oscillator) that drives a flyback transformer using […]
The Quarter Shrinker returns
Back in 2009, I was one of several folks that built the coin shrinker at Hackerbot Labs. After several hundred firings and sitting in a closet […]
PopSci feature: with video!
Popular Science has published the online version of the print article on the Tesla Gun! It includes a quick (and very geek-tastic) interview with yours […]
DIY Backyard Genius
The Tesla Gun was chosen to be the opening project of the 2012 Popular Mechanics DIY Backyard Genius awards! PopMech hasn’t updated the website yet, but it’s […]
The Tesla Gun
The year was 1889. The War of the Currents was well underway. At stake: the future of electrical power distribution on planet Earth. With the […]
Talk at Ada’s: The Tesla gun
I gave another talk at Ada’s Technical Books: this time about the (nearly completed) Tesla gun. The audio isn’t perfect, and it very tragically ends […]
Happy HV Holidays!
To celebrate the season this year, I got together with some friends to make gingerbread houses. My contribution: Gingerbread Wardenclyffe, with real lightning action! (compare […]
Porcelain HV switch
After tragically melting my previous HV switch, and given that a 15kV multi-ampere switch isn’t exactly something you find at Radio Shack, I’ve had to […]