Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio: Wormhole Voyage #1

YouTube via MrfixitRick

"This crystal radio in a jam jar is able to receive a computer screen-saver, and respond with rich real-time sound effects!

The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio's sensitive antennas pick up on the RF emanations of the screen. The crystal circuit delivers the audio signal to the computer, where software Audio Hijack Pro increases gain and alters the pitch in real time.

This screensaver example shows a journey across Hyperspace and back through wormholes. All sounds are generated in real-time by the radio.

The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio was a recent winner of the monthly Gadget Freak award by Design News, the oldest engineering news magazine.

See the article here: http://www.designnews.com/article/355...

The building instructions for this project are found at, http://www.instructables.com/id/Spook... Please vote for my Instructables there! (Thanks ;)

The real inspiration for the Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio comes from the BetaBlocker line of spirit radios made by EJ Gold and found at http://www.yoyodyneindustries.com

Get EJ Gold's book, "Parallel Worlds Explored" http://www.idhhb.com/parallelworldsex...

Mrfixitrick's Spirit Radio playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list.."

Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio

"Mrfixitrick shows a series of seven experiments with his Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio, a non-powered crystal radio circuit built in a jam-jar.

This simple crystal radio shows abilities such as: detecting lightning, making voice phenomena, interacting with all forms of light, creating music and sound effects, reading a computer screen, acting as a mike, and detecting RF pulses. In that order!

The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio is plugged directly into the iMac computer sound-in port. Audio Hijack Pro software provides the gain and real time sound effects based on the radio's input.

The radio's antennas are inspired by Tesla's higher voltage examples, and its basic LC circuit is similar to Tesla's original inductor coil and capacitor circuit schematics."