Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Zeusaphone

There's a new big thing going around the web. It's called a Solid State Musical Tesla Coil, although two suggested names were the Thoramin (geeky AND excellent) or the Zeusaphone (Nice). It works by switching on and off the sparks at high enough frequencies that they generate tones, which can be used to make music. The sparks themselves are making the music, not the towers. Observe the glory that is MUSIC: And maybe some "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies": And "A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left" by Andrew Bird: And a lower quality but nonetheless impressive video of some other guy doing the "Ghostbusters" theme: Oh, alright. How about the theme from Tetris: