Tesla coil Super Mario Brothers theme: Don't tase me, Wario

John Biggs

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Monday, November 5th, 2007

How does this even work? I’m really confused. Essentially, these are two Tesla coils sending out signals based on MIDI input. But how do you control the frequency of the shock to make the music? There are no speakers involved. Engineers? A little help?

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