Tesla Coils playing the Mario Bros Theme (very cool video)

[Joanne98]

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.

Video....
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/science/tesla-coils-playing-the-mario-bros-theme-are-unsurprisingly-awesome-319384.php?autoplay=true

[Ian David]

1. Okay, this beats Coke and Mentos Guy.

I wonder... can it do a spoken voice?

[MuseRider]

2. Awesome!

Thanks, that was fun to watch and listen to. Amazing. I guess that is about all I can say since I know nothing about Tesla coils.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. I'm not getting any sound n/t

[gateley]

4. I think Tesla would love this! nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Had no idea tesla coils could play pitches.

I'll get the resident electronics genius/physicist right on it.

[Joanne98]

6. kick

[windoe]

7. Tesla invented free clean energy

-but since there was no money in it, the big energy boys put him out of business and he died penniless. He was a freaking genius.

[BornagainDUer]

8. You got that right. JP Morgan financed him, then pulled the dough out

when he realized what a threat free energy would be to his feudal empire. If my memory is accurate Morgan destroyed all of his works. If this story is every widely known it would change our view of history drastically.