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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. Re:There's an easier way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cool, I'm glad someone else does this as well. My favorite is either to use it to stir the lemonaid, or else dip it in whipped cream and then lick all the cream off (that one hurts my spine though).

  2. gee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The site may have built a few tesla coils, but not enought to prevent the allied slashdot effect rush! booya! mamoth tanks are no match for 1,000 angry nerds!

    1. Build tesla coil
    2. ???
    3. PROFIT!

    Linux > Windows

    By the way, I know this is a bit offtopic, but I recall reading about some nifty google feature in a comment to a slashdot post a while ago. It was essentially a phone number owned by google that you could call, and then you would speak what you were searching for, and they used a speech to text converter, and then searched google for that, and displayed the results in some sub directory of google. I know it's a silly system, but I've been searching long and hard for that phone number to no avail, and thought I would ask at the place that originally produced the URL, any help folks?