The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage multiplier was the hard part of the project. But nowadays you can get cheap high voltage modules that are quite inexpensive. [PaulGetson ...

After purchasing the materials he needed and spending more than a year testing his experiment, Jackson officially became the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion in 2018, when his efforts - ...

and a neon sign transformer with a variac to control output. Even the optics are completely DIY, a hand drilled gold mirror and a NaCL window made from a polished chunk of icecream salt!