Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Man-made Lightning

Tesla , Saturday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Saturday 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Saturday 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Saturday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Sunday 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Sunday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room
Tesla , Sunday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Tesla performance in Dark Room

Location:   Dark Room   

This 5-foot-tall Tesla Coil generates dazzling, long, electrical arcs while also revealing basic physics principles with the Jacob's Ladder, Faraday's Cage, and grounding.

Saturday
10:15: Tesla performance
11:00: OPEN (ATLAS/GLAST Videos will play during all open periods)
11:30: Tesla Performance
12:15: "Making Galaxies & the Universe; an Astronomer's View", with Raja GuhaThakurta
2:00: Tesla Performance
3:30: Tesla Performance

Sunday
11:00: Tesla performance
12:30: Tesla Performance
1:30: "Making Galaxies & the Universe; an Astronomer's View", with Raja GuhaThakurta
2:30: Tesla Performance
4:00: Tesla Performance

Web site: http://scipp.ucsc.edu/outreach/

Project photo.

Topic(s): Engineering | Science

Tags: tesla+coil electricity zorro knight faradays+cage

About the Maker(s)

Vicki Johnson
SCIPP

http://scipp.ucsc.edu/outreach/index.html

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