tesla lamp....

[jamiewoody]

touch the glass bowl, and see a static charge!

i was wondering if anybody considered building some sort of lfo or theramin circuit, with a sort of bulb which would act like a tesla lamp. perhaps, the tesla lamp could also be a body contact?

i am not even sure how this would work...purely conceptual.

but, wouldn't it look cool?!! (perhaps, sound cool too?!).

[Circuitbenders]

tesla lamp? Do you mean plasma ball?

[jamiewoody]

yeah, it appears to be known as a plasma lamp.

a tesla invention, also known as the "jacob's ladder". (ever seen the movie "powder"?!).

like i said, purely conceptual. i'm not sure how it would work. i understand how "body contacts" work, though i have not yet tried it.
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the concept: a touch sensitive synth (photo resistor based, perhaps), displaying a glass ball, which would "well up" a visual static charge when played.

[Remork]

all i know is that you can't mess with the insides of a plasma ball..
there's some kind of gas in there under very low pressure (much like a lightbulb, i presume).

so whatever you want to do to it, it's most likely to go on the outside.

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/plasmaballs2.htm