oneTesla

oneTesla was founded in 2012 by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students who shared a passion for high voltage and a love of DIY electronics. Heidi Baumgartner joined Bayley Wang in making his efficient Tesla coil design into an educational kit. Originally working out of MIT’s maker space, MITERS, with some early-stage collaboration by Daniel Kramnik, they realized they had a design for a kit that many hobbyists would potentially enjoy. Developing the kit was a hobby that suddenly became a lot more serious when a Kickstarter campaign in January 2013 was an instant hit. Within a week of launch, the campaign had raised over $169,000, and the team stopped taking new pledges, worried that they would not be able to keep up with the overwhelming demand. oneTesla quickly outgrew their workspace at MITERS and moved to Artisan's Asylum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon, that space became too small and the company moved to its own office in Medford, Massachusetts. The team grew to include an assembly department and office staff. Feedback was gathered from hundreds of builders of the original oneTesla Musical Tesla Coil Kit to determine what could be improved. With the second version of the oneTesla kit, called oneTeslaTS, oneTesla designed the ideal compact Tesla coil, with a focus on reliability, ease of assembly, portability, and usability. A new, smaller kit, called tinyTesla was also developed. In August, 2014, a second Kickstarter campaign successfully funded both new products, and oneTesla partnered with a local assembly house. Their decades of experience in electronics assembly mean that your kits are in good hands. oneTesla's mission is to promote hands-on learning by providing kits that are well-engineered, beautiful, and fun to build. Thorough documentation and an active support community on the forum are a point of pride. A quickly-growing tutorials section supports the company's commitment to education. And if you need a second try at assembly, replacement parts are available.