Mario Bros music played on… tesla coils
It turns out that Tesla Coils aren’t just useful for defending your base from enemy tanks, they can also be used as musical instruments. Those of you old enough to remember dialup (*shudders*) will know what a Midi file is. Who would have thought that the playing of a Midi file would end up being a hugely popular video on
YouTube linked by the likes of Gizmodo? Well that’s exactly how these things work:
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.
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