The circuit in this Design Ideauses a Microchip 12F10 controllerto drive a voltage multiplier ladderand a single pin to output status and toinput a trigger signal you supply (Figure1). When you ...

A 15-year-old boy in Ohio electrocuted himself while attempting a science experiment he saw on YouTube, Reuters reported. The teenager, Morgan Wojciechowski, tried to conduct a high-voltage experiment ...

There was a time when making a high voltage project like a Jacob’s ladder took time to build or scrounge some kind of high voltage circuit. The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage ...

For the most part, here at Hackaday we’re more interested in how something was made than the backstory on why an individual actually put it together. Frankly, it’s not really our business. But we’ve ...