Buxtronix

Last year whilst in America for work, I visited a flea market and came across a box of impressive capacitors. Inside the box were ten 8-inch...

... a very fast (100th of a second) shower of metal sparks. A while back I acquired a very beefy capacitor. It is 0.25uF, rated at 35,000v...

A 1 hour build. Finally put a flyback transformer and driver on a single PCB for easier moving around. Up to now the transformer has been l...

When you want to generate large pulses of terrifyingly high voltages, the tool of choice among the potentially inclined is the Marx Generato...

Way back when I was still at school, I took a trip to Europe. Whilst browsing Portobello Road in London, I came across a bloke selling old ...

Like any true electronics geek, I tend to have a decent pile of alligator clip leads (or "Croc clips" as they're known in .au)...

Playing with sparks requires generating high voltages. There are a multitude of ways to generate such voltages. One of the easiest is to u...