Tesla coils have been used for all kinds of different reasons in entertainment. For decades, they’ve been making certain cinematic moments cooler, from the original Frankenstein to The Prestige. But ...

Tesla coils love to make music. We’ve heard them play all kinds of songs, from Daft Punk’s “Around the World” to Toto’s “Africa.” But now they’re back…one more time. In a video we first spotted on ...

We’ve seen musical Tesla coils aplenty on these pages before, and we’ll be the first to point out that [Kedar Nimbalkar]’s musical high-voltage rig doesn’t quite qualify as a Tesla coil. But it’s dirt ...

"Steve Ward and Jeff Larson constructed these two solid-state Tesla coils, then programmed them to play the Super Mario Brothers theme. "Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme ...

There's epic, and then there's epic. A 40 minute remix of popular songs, played on tesla coils? That's the latter. After all, everything's better with lightning! Thanks to the Open Spark Project (OSP) ...

This Tesla coil resonates in the 41KHz range, and is further modulated so the sparks actually create music. A square wave (perfect for 8 bit music) is fed to the circuit to control the pitch. The ...

On display at Maker Faire 2009, Interactivation is a whimsical, slightly non-sensical cross between a six-way collaborative music machine and a Tesla coil, producing improvised sounds and scientific ...

Once upon a time, musical Tesla coils were something you primarily saw at high-voltage hobby meets. They’ve become more popular in recent years, and now you can even buy cheap examples online.