Yes. Actually, I built the circuit exactly you posted, but the output is so small, can not drive the power resistor and inductor.
The driving circuit I built I used the schematic LM555 National Semiconductor as Figure 4 and Figure 1 to trigger the Mosfet. The output from Figure 1 is low, I used 7667 chip to amplify the output signal, it works before but I got short one time, and it's dead now.....
Without using 7667, I just got around 0.4V output, it's not enough to drive the power resistor....
The schematic I posted is from the lecture, I built the circuit like you post here.
thanks