Electronic Hobbyists Handbook

Build capacitors that really pack a punch for high voltage fun! As one who supplies parts to those who experiment with high voltage, I get a lot of letters and phone calls from frustrated builders...

Voltage doublers are an easy and inexpensive way to experiment with high voltage. If you’ve been looking for a way to generate high voltage, you’ve undoubtedly run across the voltage doubler. Voltage...

A climbing electric arc has held the imagination of science-fiction fans as the symbol for an eerie laboratory! In many sci-fi and horror flicks, especially the stock “Frankenstein” variety, along...

It’s a high-voltage apparatus that has earned a place in history. Now it’s your turn to get in on the fun! “Wimshurst machine? So that’s what it’s called!” my neighbor said, his eyes as wide as half...

Have hours of high-voltage fun when you experiment with this working high-voltage generator. The first known electrical generator was built in 1660 by the German experimenter, Otto von Guericke (also...

Build an updated version of Nikola Tesla’s most-famous experiment. Nikola Tesla is considered by some to be the greatest inventor of our modern electrical age, and many experts consider him to be the...