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UNLEASH YOUR INNER MAD SCIENTIST!
This wickedly inventive guide explains how to design and build 15 fiendishly fun electronics projects. Filled with photos and illustrations, 15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius includes step-by-step directions, as well as a construction primer for those who are new to electronics projects.
Using easy-to-find components and equipment, this do-it-yourself book shows you how to create a variety of mischievous gadgets, such as a remote-controlled laser, motorized multicolored LEDs that write in the air, and a surveillance robot. You'll also learn to use the highly popular Arduino microcontroller board with three of the projects.
15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius:
- Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations
- Covers essential safety measures
- Reveals the scientific principles behind the projects
- Removes the frustration factor--all required parts are listed, along with sources
Build these devious devices to amaze your friends and confound your enemies!
- Coil gun
- Trebuchet
- Ping pong ball minigun
- Mini laser turret
- Balloon-popping laser gun
- Touch-activated laser sight
- Laser-grid intruder alarm
- Persistence-of-vision display
- Covert radio bug
- Laser voice transmitter
- Flash bomb
- High-brightness LED strobe
- Levitation machine
- Snailbot
- Surveillance robot
Each fun, inexpensive Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.
VIDEOS, PHOTOS, AND SOURCE CODE ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW.DANGEROUSLYMAD.COM
Make Great Stuff!
TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.
About the Author
Dr. Simon Monk has a degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science and a PhD in Software Engineering. He spent several years as an academic before he returned to industry, co-founding the mobile software company Momote Ltd. He has been an active electronics hobbyist since his early teens and is an occasional author in hobby electronics magazines. Simon is author of 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius.
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There is a website for the book with videos, color photos, corrections, and lots of other goodies.
Even though there are only 15 projects, each has possibilities for your own creative spin-offs and "mods" (modifications). This is a tinkerer's or maker's garden of delight.
Their is a certain hilarious joy that only a ping-pong ball machine gun firing 10 rounds per second at over 40 feet per second can bring.
Everything here is completely buildable. And there is a happy flexibility in the type of parts you can use. For instance, say you don't want to power your roving robot with rechargeable screwdriver motors. Well a quick trip to your local "dollar" or thrift store and you can find a pair of similar motors in some other gadget. Great for recyclers. Each project gives you just the right amount of theory so you adapt it to parts you have on hand.
And the range of inventiveness here is tremendous. Some projects are powered by low-cost chips; yet another uses 25 pounds of sand as its power source.
I also purchased 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius by this author and was delighted by how much I learned; but even more about how much I could "mod" the projects. I was impressed by how the author is interested in his reader's projects. His intelligence and enthusiasm light up every page.
This book is a wonderful tool for involving families in building inexpensive, fun and educational gizmos together. What a welcome alternative to telly and video games!
I cant wait for Simon's next book on Arduino and Android projects, due for release later this year.
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