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?!).
tesla lamp? Do you mean plasma ball?
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.
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 (http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/plasmaballs2.htm)