{"id":1788,"date":"2011-01-15T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2011-01-15T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:04:39","slug":"saturday-tesla-meets-droid-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/15\/saturday-tesla-meets-droid-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday &#8211; Tesla meets &#8216;droid phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So.. As folks following this blog may remember, I&#8217;ve been trying to finish up a new tesla coil.. This one will eventually be able to play music, run on 120V, 220V or 12v car batteries. It&#8217;s turning out to be a very. very complicated build.. the toughest thing I think I&#8217;ve ever built (except perhaps, our kids) .. I&#8217;ve had a bunch of missteps on the way.. I&#8217;ve blown out diodes, transient suppressors, capacitors&#8230; luckily, nothing more expensive than 17 bucks .. Anyway.. today.. it all started to work.. beautiful long blue sparks, a deep throaty roar as I turned up the juice.. I reached for my camera.. Oh.. shoot.. I dropped it on my hike up Camels Hump this Wednesday.. so\u00a0 grabbed the only camera I had.. my droid..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now.. electronics and high voltage don&#8217;t really mix very well.. event though I was 2 meters away, my droid camera started going completely crazy as I tried to photograph the spark.. I thought I got a couple of movies.. but then the screen started to freak out.. Now as I sit to enter this blog.. I realize I fried my phone.. all the videos and pictures are gone.. ad the camera app is flipping out completely.\u00a0 The fields that a tesla coil put out can mess with electronics.. over the years I&#8217;ve managed to fry a variety of cordless phones, garage door openers, alarm systems, light dimmers.. but .. until tonight.. never a cell phone..<\/p>\n<p>.. So.. I count that failure as a success..<\/p>\n<p>Now.. if only I could revive my phone..<\/p>\n<p>note all, note sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So.. As folks following this blog may remember, I&#8217;ve been trying to finish up a new tesla coil.. This one will eventually be able to play music, run on 120V, 220V or 12v car batteries. It&#8217;s turning out to be a very. very complicated build.. the toughest thing I think I&#8217;ve ever built (except perhaps, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/15\/saturday-tesla-meets-droid-phone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday &#8211; Tesla meets &#8216;droid phone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,28],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-droid","tag-tesla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}