Tesla Who? Chevy Bolt Is the Only EV With a 238-Mile Range Available This Year
Chevy has fired a shot across Tesla’s bow with the announcement that the 2016 Chevy Bolt will sport a 238-mile range.
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How Nikola Tesla’s Theories Unleash M.G. Buehrlen’s Inner Geek
This week we welcome YA author M.G. Buehrlen to Geek Speaks…Fiction! M.G. tells us all about why Nikola Tesla’s theories make her geek out, and how they helped inspire her new book, ‘The Untimely Deaths of Alex Wayfare.’
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GeekDad Review: ‘Tesla vs. Edison’
The Kickstarter for this game about the war between Alternating and Direct Current was successful earlier this year – but how is the game?
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Kickstarter Alert: LightUp Faraday Kit – Electronics & Coding for Kids Without the Stress
LightUp’s Edison and Tesla kits are amazing – and the Kickstarter for their new Faraday kit is well worth checking out.
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Fund This! LightUp Faraday Electronics Kit
Don’t miss out! Take a look at LightUp’s latest KickStarter electronics learning kit, Faraday.
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Tesla Home Batteries Are Here
It’s not been a very well-kept secret that Elon Musk and Tesla have been working on home batteries, but last night Tesla officially announced the Powerwall.
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Why ‘Atomic Robo’ Is Your New Favorite Comic
It’s about time that I introduced frustrated comic readers to my favorite comic, ‘Atomic Robo.’ Created by writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener, it was published by Red 5 comics in late 2007, and nominated for an Eisner award the following year.
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Tesla vs. Edison’
Replay the historic battle of AC vs. DC in a Kickstarter board game: ‘Tesla vs. Edison.’
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The Oatmeal Pleads Elon Musk to Finance Tesla Museum; Musk Said Yes!
Two years ago, Inman of The Oatmeal launched a campaign to help the Tesla Science Center purchase the Wardenclyffe. Now he’s back to publicly plead Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk for the money needed to build a museum.
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ArcAttack Places Bill Nye in a Faraday Cage
Longtime friends of GeekDad, ArcAttack, attended the Liberty Science Center’s recent Gala alongside geeky greats like Bill Nye and Dean Kamen. My sources say they stuck Bill Nye in the Faraday cage, but there’s no video evidence of that fact yet. If anyone finds a video, hit me up with a link and I’ll post it.
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“Tesla” by They Might Be Giants is Educational and Awesome
The song “Tesla” is included on the new album “Nanobots.”
Continue ReadingThe Doctor Who theme song, performed on Tesla coils
Yes, you read that correctly. And yes, it’s every bit as excellent as it sounds. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait was recently asked to deliver a talk about asteroid impacts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Engineering Open House – an unassumingly named science and engineering festival that actually attracts thousands of people from around the […]
Continue ReadingNiagara Falls, Power and Tesla
I was thinking of the beauty of the falls, mostly, and a chance to be on a vacation alone with my husband. What I found at Niagara Falls was an incredibly geeky place, starting with Nikola Tesla’s longest lasting achievement, …
Continue ReadingArcAttack At The Bay Area Maker Faire 2011
ArcAttack uses their two 500KV singing Tesla coils to play AC/DC’s Back in Black while Leah and GeekKid Hannah rock out in the Faraday cage.
Continue ReadingHigh School Teacher ELECTROCUTED!
Arc Attack is doing their part to get kids interested in science and technology. Mr Wright of McCallum High School in Austin takes center stage in the Faraday cage as Arc Attack plays an original composition on their Singing Tesla …
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
One hundred and fifteen fifty-three years ago, Nikola Tesla was born in the small village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in modern-day Croatia. Beside the eponymous Tesla coil, Tesla is known for his contributions to the field of science, especially regarding …
Continue ReadingAn Electrifying Performance by ArcAttack
Tesla Coils, Jacob’s Ladders, and even the simple Van De Graff generators make me happy. Throw some Pulse Rate Modulation at a solid state Tesla Coil and I can only be described as giddy. My first chance to see ArcAttack …
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