First sparks, Day 2 (continued)

Well, I went to my hackerspace TC Maker at the HackFactory (http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/hack-factory/), and got a small group of people brainstorming for me about how to drive the spark plug. Turns out there was a semi-broken neon sign in the corner. We hooked up the spark plug (in series to the rest of the sign that wasn't broken), and we got first sparks:

Here's the video:

Well, I accomplished all my goals for today!

For tomorrow: calculate orifice size and make CAD model of igniter.