Ever wonder how a Tesla coil works? Interested in how you can make 10'+ sparks, and how those sparks can play music? Want to build your very own Tesla coil? Then this class is for you! We'll begin with a quick lecture on how a Tesla Coil works, from the bottom up. We'll then provide you with kits to build solid-state Tesla Coils that can make music, and we'll be there to assist you in building and debugging. The end product is a 10" tall coil, capable of 15" sparks playing polyphonic music, or 2' sparks in spark-optimized mode. All necessary hardware will be provided - a pretty sweet deal, if you ask us!

Everyone knows how to factor numbers, right? Just divide by everything less than it! WRONG! Brute force is just too slow for large numbers. Fortunately, there are better approaches. This class discusses integer factorization, and covers the motivation for the methods and several fast algorithms, up to and including the quadratic sieve.