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 […]
Laser HV repair
I’m in the process of upgrading the brain in the laser from a cheap (and recently deceased) Chinese special to a new design based on […]
Tesla gun upgrades
I finally got around to making a couple of much needed upgrades to the Tesla gun. First: a trigger! I had previously been using a […]
The Tesla Gun: a history
Staci Elaan is an electrical engineer who has been making Tesla guns since 2006. Her sixth generation MK6-18V is a battery powered, solid state piece […]
Tesla Gun on Discovery Canada
Santa brought me an early present this year: Discovery Canada (the same folks that covered the quarter shrinker a while back) did a very nice […]
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 […]