Sparking Plasma Speakers Play the ‘Popeye’ Theme

Engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli, known for his musical Tesla coils, performed the classic Popeye cartoon theme using a pair of custom sparking plasma speakers that he built using old CRT flyback transformers.

Popeye Theme (1960) performed by musical electric arcs! New driver, I call it “Cool-Flyback”. Running in the interrupted mode. …The entire sound comes from the sparks!

The CRT Flyback Transformers

Plasma Speakers Playing Other Themes

The Plasma Speakers

via The Awesomer

Lori Dorn
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