This compilation is especially for Ms. Babble-Jean Teabag who is currently away nursing a healthy relative back to sickness.

It is a collection of videos on musical Tesla coils, compiled by our loyal, trusty, and hardworking intern, Whats-His-Name, the research monkey.

These are solid-state Tesla coils, Their primaries run at a resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and they are modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.

No, the electricity is not timed and coordinated to the music: the music is made by these two midi-controlled Tesla Coils!

A midi, is of course, is some sort of small electro-magical creature, native to the Russian tundra – and it lives for the opportunity to use its elemental powers to enrich the lives of man.

Steve Ward and Jeff Larson, the owners and builders of these Tesla coils, and masters of these highly talented midis, met at Teslathon of all places.

Steve is an electrical engineering student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

So, without much further ado… here are those moving pictures… WITH SOUND!

OH!

… I’ve just been informed that “WITH SOUND!” is something that would probably not serve to amaze and confound people the likes of our regular readers – so, please forget that I ever said that.

Playing video game music:

Dance of Sugar Plum Fairies:

Now: What happens when a Jedi tries to disrupt the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies:

As you can see, the jedi is almost completely immobilized by the Tesla coils, and powerless to continue his attack, his giant helmet keeping him only barely alive, he becomes confused… disinterested…

Not a Jedi you say? What? Doctor who? Doctor Zues? Well… fine… whatever…

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