EOH Tesla Coil Concert Plays Smash Bros Medley

[LiteralGrill]

It seems no matter where one goes there is always someone with a love of Smash! Each year the University of Illinois hosts the Engineering Open House (EOH for short). As stated on their website "Engineering Open House is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exciting exhibits and captivating competitions that showcase the talent and ingenuity of engineering students at the University of Illinois." This free to enter event sported over 250 exhibits and several events, including a Tesla Coil Concert.

It may sound odd that you can make music from lightning, but the music does come from the electrical spark itself and not any special speakers. Sound can be created by pulsating a plasma streamer. While one streamer just sounds like a loud snap, if you repeat those snaps fast enough they sound higher in pitch. A Tesla coil normally repeats these so fast a human cannot hear it, which is why they are modulated my pulsating a plasma streamer. These can only usually manage 2 notes at once, and the sweet spot for a Tesla coil to "play" at lies an octave around the middle C.

The concert this year allowed people to submit their own possible songs to be played by the Tesla coil, with the one of most interest to Smash fans being their Smash Bros Medley. Watch the video and enjoy how science brings Smash music to life!

@ LiteralGrill loves music and science, so this was really awesome to him! Follow him on Twitter to share other awesome Smash tunes with him.

 

[gagelax]

Woah, this is so cool!

It almost feels magical.

 

[TehGuitarLord]

This is so freaking coincidental. My physics teacher showed us a video in class of this science museum making music with tesla coils. 2 days later I see this... wow

 

[J.P]

Oh so this is what PK Thunder can do, nice ^_^

 

[MidnightAsaph]

That's truly awesome.

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

Freaking awesome 10/10

 

[QuadraSlashe]

Wow! That's really cool, especially since it's playing the Smash theme!

 

[ARBITER WARPIG]

"That's it this is the best thing ever, do the song and dance!" - Jontron

 

[WinterShorts]

Awesome. I have absolutley no idea as to what musical instrements are those, but Awesome!

No seriously what are those things? They look like R.O.B. heads to me.

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

Awesome. I have absolutley no idea as to what musical instrements are those, but Awesome!

No seriously what are those things? They look like R.O.B. heads to me.

Tesla Coils.

 

[HellTyrant]

That was interesting to hear but not really to look at unless you know how they program the coils to do each particular note

 

[Icebeatsfire]

This is the power of the falcon knee

 

[Capybara Gaming]

That was pretty awesome.

 

[Shin F.]

Excellent!

Now, all it needs is a giant Pikachu face behind it with the coils being its cheeks.

 

[◥θ┴θ◤ | JJ]

Brought to you by the electricity collected from all the knees Falcon has landed.

 

[Remobit]

Shocking, isn't it? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Thundering TNT]

That was amazing!

 

[Keeseman]

SPARKING!

inb4 Goku confirmed for sm4sh DLC

 

[NotAnAdmin]

Has science gone too far?

 

[allison]

Damn, already out of Smash-related electricity jokes.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Has science gone too far?

Science has to go farther

 

[Man Li Gi]

My school and Thor's school represent. I couldn't go since I had my first play performance.

Plug in: Anyway, we have a young smash scene growing under the name of the smashing Illini.

 

[Omar_25]

This is so amazing! Why isn't the tesla coil a musical instrument?

 

[Xpinkbean]

The electricity was used from the spamming thunder pikachus in every smash game.

 

[Bedoop]

Sounds like a Kazoo festival.
I like it.

 

[TheFadedWarrior]

Melee's theme will always remain the best. Brawl had weird opera music, SSB4 has the same song for every ****ing thing other than most of the stages, and SSB64 had something that I wouldn't really call a theme. Melee's was just really good.

 

[chainmaillekid]

This is so amazing! Why isn't the tesla coil a musical instrument?

It is used as an instrument by a number of people.

Its just not very common because of it needing a large secure area, and they're extremely loud if you want any visible light displays for the crowd.

And they're quirky, they do certain things well, and other things they don't.

 

[Omegascizor456]

That is insane! I am addicted to that now... haha

 

[Zad]

Woah, that's cool.

 

[Phoenix502]

Who here saw the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"? main character did the same thing, except with the OneRepublic song "Secrets".

this sort of thing isn't new to me, but that doesn't mean I'm any less captivated by it.

 

[noahk777]

That is amazing. How do they do that? Who found out you could do that? Why? And most of all, who made this amazing Smash medley? Who composed it?

 

[energyman2289]

Pretty damn cool.

 

[Registeel]

This is the coolest thing ever

 

[Cody645]

The Mute City portion of the song made me loose it!