Spark gap and triggered gap tubes and small thyratrons. Miniature valves
..and the cutest little CRT you'll ever see...! Vintage valves Mercury Arc Rectifiers How you made DC before silicon. Lamps etc. Antique / unusual bulbs arc tubes.. Neon lamps and neon strobe tubes. Geissler tubes pretty discharge tubes from before the days of neon. Assorted glass components Weston cells, crystals, geiger tubes, vacuum guage.

Photoelectric Cells and photomultipliers. Nixie tubes, dekatrons counting tubes Digital glass stuff. Nixie Clock project Full construction details including PCB artwork. Advertisments for early electronic stuff incuding very early transistors computing, from the early 1950s. Interesting old frequency counter
Unusual display device Very Clever Glassware including a glass analogue to digital converter and a 256 bit memory tube.

Fun with a surge generator Can-crushing, ballistic maglev and exploding stuff. Jacob's Ladders High-voltage flames Tesla Coil Motor Electric 'wheel of fire' effects. Fun with Plasma in a xenon flash tube Quick Dirty Marx Generator Big sparks - fast!

The Destruct-O-Tron Three Thousand Joules of danger!
The Jacobs-Ladder-O-Phone of fire!
A new twist on an old HV device

Marx Three
A million volts of fun
UK Teslathon Derby 2004
Sparks of Fire
High voltage AND flames - cool!
Amberley Teslathon 2004
High-speed camera meets destruct-o-tron
Amazing footage!
Destruction in the name of charity

The Spark-O-Phone
Sound improvisation by electrons...
50KV Electron Microscope PSU Info on high-power pulse switching devices trigatrons, thyratrons and various other -trons.

Inside Electric Stuff - Ever wondered what electronic gadgets look like inside but were scared to get your screwdriver out ?

LED Filament clock
Clock display using LED lighting filament strips How to make really good homebrew PCBs Neodymium magnets Turn a hard disk into a maglev device.
Mystery corner Odd components - can you figure them out ?
. Old calculator collection. Ball-bearing motor Odd non- magnetic motor. Fun with a BIG laser The lights go dim as the beam comes on.....

Transparent electric stuff
Unusual digital clocks Argon laser power supply from surplus switchmode PSUs Miniature smoke machine for laser experimenters Fun with an argon laser

Wierd military Processor boards Cheap laser cutter
Cut! Burn! Melt! The Incredible Shrinking Chip
A nice demonstration of how much smaller chips have become over the last decade. A Laser that burns stuff!
Mike's got a CO2 laser - be afraid, be very afraid..! Build a cheap capacitance box
Dial-a-Farad Probe for in-circuit PIC programming.
High-Speed video camera system
1000 frames/second of fun
Repairing a window with an aquarium pump.
Inside a fake AC Adapter A Curious Oscillator circuit
Probably not useful.. High-speed video images
Images from my high-speed camera system.
New stuff 9 Apr 2006

Violet laser diode fun Fun with Ferrofluid
And magnets. And Water Ipod LCD hacking Hacking the ultra-cheap Sparkfun Colour QVGA LCD SMT toaster hack
Reflow for �5
PIC, AVR other microcontroller stuff
Assorted neat microcontroller tips, tricks etc. The Junk Box Oddments that don't really fit anywhere else... Muppet Alert Dumb emails received Naughty Bits What electronic components get up to when you're not looking...