Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tesla Coil Musical Hat

MIT student Tyler Christensen built a fabulous musical Tesla coil cap designed for his Halloween outfit. The item played the Mortal Kombat theme and also Harry Potter theme.
He explained :
 "Really, it’s just a DRSSTC. Nothing less, nothing more, nothing fancy. It was a bit tricky to make a bridge appropriately sized, and even harder to make a boost converter for it. In fact, the boost never truly worked. If I play a mid to high note for a few seconds, the boost can’t keep up and it fades away. I think this is due to saturation of my boost core, but I haven’t really taken the time to do much on this since now I’m back in the gate driver world and also have to throw together my 6.131 power electronics final project. I’ll fix hatcoil in February."





1 comment:

  1. At least we don't need an iPhone or iPad just to listen to music.lol Tesla coil music looks so cool.

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