We’ve all seen a million videos online with singing Tesla coils doing their thang. [Zach Armstrong] wasn’t content to just watch, though. He went out and built one himself! Even better ...

well, erm, play music from a MIDI source ... of a driver board that sits inside the laser cut acrylic main chassis and powers the whole Tesla coil. There's a MIDI input for connecting the device ...

Which brings us to the oneTeslaTS. While any Tesla coil can be turned into a musical instrument, this do-it-yourself coil adds some tools to make it easy to play right out of the box. First ...

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.

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 ...

But Kraft admits that despite his best efforts, “Even 360 video doesn’t capture the awesomeness of massive tesla coils vaporizing the air to make music.” Check it out: [Laughing Squid and ...

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.

But did you know they can be also used to make music? One group in particular has turned Tesla coil music into an elevated art form. The collective known as ArcAttack has been designing musical ...

musicians have been using these lightning-like things to make music with. Happily for us, they've also been posting videos of their Tesla performances on YouTube - here are six of our favourites.

"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 ...