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Build Your Own Tesla Coil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-in-red-alert dept.

screenbert writes "Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbors from trampling your backyard, but just couldn't find the system to really deter them? Well this site shows how they built a bi-polar Tesla Coil system. I've always loved the Tesla coils on C&C when they'd zap the units as they went by. "

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  1. Food Protection Device by Dystopium · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need one of those to keep my roommates off my leftovers in the fridge.

  2. There's an easier way... by danny256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every college student knows that to keep your roommates from your food, you just poisen some of it, after the first couple of them die, the rest learn pretty quick. It may not be high tech but it gets the job done.

  3. That's not a picture of his tesla coil. by yeoua · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's actually a picture of his server after this story was posted.

  4. A Star Wars scene we didn't see by Darth+Paul · · Score: 5, Funny
    Palpatine: And now, young Skywalker, you will die!
    (Palpatine begins rubbing feet on carpet vigorously)

    That picture of the "Man of Great Potential" is really giving me strange ideas.

  5. Be careful! by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before Slashdot posts stories like this, they should very expressly warn their readers about the dangers inherent in such projects. Although a simple Tesla Coil is not particularly dangerous, if a Tesla Coil is turned into a mobius strip and enough energy is put into it, a electrotemporal-topological disaster can result, plunging an area up to 5 kilometers around it into Dirac Space.


    You can find more information about this strange and dangerous phenomenea here .

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  6. yeah, but.. by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, this is a great idea, and a cute trial.. but you're never going to get a tesla coil that can really injure people

    Yeah, but I bet it will keep the neighbor's cat from pissing in my flowerbed.

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