New Drill Press donated by Jet/WMH to The Geek Group just arrived!

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Joe DiPrima and Duck demonstrate the Solid State Musical Tesla Coil

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Full demonstration video of 10kVA bipolar tesla coil using the world's largest MMC array. Chris Boden and The Geek Group take you through the entire system step by step. An excellent video on how Tesla Coils actually work.

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Our first test flights experimenting with the Lifter concept.

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Exempts from a lecture to WMU physics students about The Geek Group.

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This is where the majority of the parts on our supply shelves come from. We maintain a massive archive of "junque" collected from old and recycled gear. It's all perfectly good and useable parts, thousands and thousands of dollars of gear that would have otherwise ended up at the bottom of a landfill or a scrapmetal pile. We pull anything that is useful, test it, and reuse it in future projects. Only the true Junk is finally tossed in the scrap heap.

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How we turn your trash into new projects.

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Singing tesla coils presented by The Geek Group (http://www.thegeekgroup.org) at the Maker Faire (http://www.makerfaire.com) in Austin, TX on October 20, 2007. Recorded by GeeksOK (http://www.geeksok.com).

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Here's what I think of that response: how about stop being such a geek and just play some music, then? Otherwise what's the whole point of being a geek? That's why the first video was cool and yours wasn't.

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Watch in full-screen! The Geek Group presented their amazing musical Tesla coils at DragonCon 2007 in Atlanta. The coils are not simply discharging in time to the music; the music is coming from the coils themselves. The Geek Group has its official videos under username "thegeekgroup." (Music: "Glass Danse" by The Faint)

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I replaced the small muffin fan on the spark gap with a vacuum cleaner motor. The gap is quenching much better now. I also moved the tap on the primary coil out a little. This has increased the arc length to 38"+. Please check out The Geek Group at www.thegeekgroup.org

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A better video of the Tesla coil. 15,000 volt 60mA neon sign transformer, 20KV .015uf MMC capacitor bank, multi segmented spark gap with .24" total gap distance, 4.5" diameter secondary with about 1000 turns of 26 gauge magnet wire, 15 turn primary tapped at the 12th turn. 32" arcs to grounded target. Please check out the geek group at www.thegeekgroup.org

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First light after about an hour of tuning. 32" arcs from breakout point to grounded target. The crappy video quality is due to the fact that I used a digital still camera on video mode. The auto focus kept tweaking for some reason. Please check out the geek group at www.thegeekgroup.org

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Geekmobile Unit-1 is one of our flagship projects at the Geek Group Vehicular Sciences Lab. It's a heavily modified Mazda MX-3 that has been designed as the most powerful wardriving research vehicle on the planet.

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Super Mario Brothers Theme played on a Solid State Musical Tesla Coil built by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves and the Austin, TX Chapter of The Geek Group

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Theme from Tetris played on a Solid State Musical Tesla Coil built by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves and the Austin, TX Chapter of The Geek Group

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We went a little improv during a Q&A session with a group of 11 year olds. We ended up torching our mannequin head in the process, and having a really fun time doing it.

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Maker faire 2007

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We're thrashing on the overhaul of the entire lab facility. Here we empty our entire warehouse in one week to turn the room into our new soundstage.

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Some old bit of archival footage we found in a vault. This is the earliest known footage of the very beginnings of The Geek Group. Note the original prototype of the Boden Electrostatic Pendulum on display in the office.

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An open house for our Schippers Street Labs in 2005.

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A quick little introduction video of one of our newest demonstrations we have in the works. This is "Project Jeff" a KUKA KR-350/1 robot that is the flagship demonstration of our new robotics lab.

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With 1,500,000 Volts of holiday cheer Chris wishes everyone a merry Christmas.

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While we were setting up and tuning Gemini after a set of upgrades the neighbors happened to notice. They were throwing a party next door and saw the arcs through the windows so we invited them in for a quick up-close look at our lightning machine.

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