Just finished up attending and speaking at the 2026 TeslaTech conference in New Mexico. It was a thoroughly fun and busy week. I met a lot of interesting people. Learned some things, taught some things, and I think people enjoyed my talk about Tesla Coils.
I was able to set up a table after the talk so people could ask questions and perform the same experiments, and go into greater detail.
Biggest hiccup was that I forgot to pack my laptop charger, leading to a last-minute scramble between best-buy and Amazon and DIY hacking to get my machine online long enough to get the Powerpoint slides to the media team.
And I had misread my time expecting a 90min talk that turned out to be 50min. Thankfully adapted and trimmed it pretty seamlessly despite losing a lot of the depth I was hoping to get into. I don’t think the audience realized it could have been twice as long.
Above all I enjoy the guys that brought their devices to show off and talk about. Their barely-concealed passion that shows up in their work.
Dr Wu was a real fun guy to hang out with, and Bob Greenyer has a model is fully fleshed out and I want to simplify and integrate into classical EE. I was aware of his work but did not know how far he was connecting theory-of-everything to actual experiments.
Lot of late nights with engaging conversations well into the morning. Mentally awesome but physically draining (lol). One night near the end I was crashing out at almost 3am and there was still 10-15 people hanging out on the patio! There’s a lot of ‘woo’ people, especially compared to Aaron’s ESTC conference, and I hope my talk and demo would be one of the catalysts that gets more people building and experimenting like the way we do here.
Besides the 1hr presentation I did a round-table talk with OMB, Moray King, Dr Wu, and a couple others. Also got invited for part of a panel talk when Parkenstein couldn’t make it and a short promo for the livestream guys. Near the end I also did a 10min promo clip about my Tesla coil talk and another 10min on the ionospheric/long lines seismic forecasting project w/ Eric.
When things settle down I’m gonna have to check my Youtube/social media stuff to see how much attention this all attracted. Just about all the business cards I printed got handed out.
Anyway, I hope everyone else that attended or watched online enjoyed it all as much as I did.