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Posted on 02/07/2012 9:11:12 PM PST by bigbob
If you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal.
ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is using an iron guitar in a faraday cage
ArcAttack testing out the world's first lighting-proof MIDI guitar in their warehouse in Austin, Texas.
The MIDI signal from the guitar is routed through a fiber optic cable to control the Tesla coils.
Update: From the comments, ArcAttack clarifies, "The guitar isnt iron though, its actually made out of wood with shielding and a couple of micro-controllers hooked up to a switch bank (the fret board) and is all optically isolated. The giant fan in the back isn't for sucking ozone. It was 100 degrees that day and being in a metal suit can get pretty hot. And in reference to Manny's comment, our interview went as follows "THEM: What happens when something goes wrong? US: We have many safety controls to minimize any major problem. If something goes wrong we just turn it off. THEM: is lightning deadly? US: Lightning is very deadly, but our machines arnt nearly as dangerous as real lightning."
Playing with gloves on yet!
Bookmark/Bump
Sabbath’s first six albums are really, really hard to beat.
Freegards
I’d be happy just to play with the Tesla coils.
[Shibumi knows I’m weird that way]
;D
Heavy Metal Ping
Heavy Metal Ping!
Tesla was probably the single greatest inventor the world has ever known.
Its amazing how much of our modern world is a direct result of his inventions.
I’m sure he had even better stuff laying around before the gubmint disappeared it all.
The History channel ran a great show about Tesla a week or so back.
He could invent at will. When Edison threw a tantrum over the world’s fair using Tesla’s AC power he refused to let them use his light bulbs so Tesla simply came up with another version.
Marconi gets the credit for the radio but Tesla got the patent in the end.
Heavy ping.
He always struck me as being ‘not of this world’.
[and no, none of the “ancient aliens” crap]....LOL
Tesla believed that he talked to aliens from space before it was cool.
Course for all of his brilliance, he was quite insane at the end.
Pretty awesome!
Can’t watch youtube at work, so ping for after work.
some people have way too much time on their hands..
TS
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