Homemade Thor's hammer with an 80,000 volt Tesla coil in it
Not content with a "crappy plastic Thor's hammer," Caleb from Hackaday
made himself a Tesla-coil-equipped Mjolnir with a tiny, 80,000 volt
Tesla coil in its head. It shoots lightning! Lots of built photos on the
Hackaday site, too.
I had seen some videos of [Staci Elaan] showing off her battery-powered
coils and I really liked her results. I figured, with her experience,
she could probably do a better job than I could on getting the most bang
out of a small package. She was happy to be involved and delivered a
small 12v powered coil for me to work with. I should also point out that
the coils [Staci] makes are usually donated to educational groups. This
woman is awesome.
She had built this big flat head on it, with the initial plan being that
it would be the front “face” of the hammer. It didn’t really work out
that way though. I ended up having to increase the size of the head a
bit and change the orientation of the coil. I experimented with
different types of foam and you can see in the “making of” video what I
finally ended up using. The blue insulation board you see in the
pictures melted way too easily.
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