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The do-it-yourself hobbyist market, particularly in the area of electronics, is hotter than ever. This books gives the “evil genius” loads of projects to delve into, from an ultrasonic microphone, to a body heat detector, and all the way to a Star Wars Light Saber. This book makes creating these devices fun, inexpensive, and easy.
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SHOCK AND AMAZE! INEXPENSIVE PROJECTS YOU CAN BUILD!
INSIDE: PROJECTS THAT TOUCH THE LEADING EDGE OF ELECTRONICS
Electronics fans have waited a long time for this book. Not since 1983 has author Bob Iannini published a collection of his amazing projects -- all of them fun, easy, and inexpensive to make at home and, best of all, seriously exciting and impressive!
Iannini takes the stuff of science fiction and science future and brings it down to size for the home hobbyist. Full of easy-to-follow plans and clear diagrams and schematics, and respectful of your wallet, Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius gives you:
* Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pretested projects advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient detail to be built easily by newcomers
* Explanations of the science and math behind each project (i.e., you can explore different methods of achieving acceleration)
* Frustration-free plans -- needed parts are listed, along with sources -- and most of these projects can be built for $100 or less
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH---?
This book equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for these wonderful projects:
* Infrared viewer
* Object levitation device
* Laser listening system
* Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generator
* Sonic phaser cannon
* Electromagnetic launcher
* Object projectort
* Traveling plasma wave generator
* Multivortex plasma tornado
* Laser beam cutter
* Ion ray projector
* Several Tesla coil projects
* Pyrotechnic blaster and shock wave pulser
* Lightning bolt generator
* Robotic circuit jamming EMP generator
* Ultrabright green laser
* Working light saber
* Magnetic pulse can crusher
* Mass driver and launcher
* Ultrasonic microphone
* Laser protection project
* Ultrasonic shock projector
* Electric fishing and worming machine
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While this book contains a lot of exciting projects, many of them involving very high voltages, very well described, UK readers should be aware that many or most of them require special components that would have to be imported from the USA, from a company associated with the author. You will NOT find them in the Radiospares or Maplin catalogues, and often their specifications are not given in enough detail to even guess at an acceptable substitute.
That said, the book was fun to read and some of the schematics could be useful in other applications.
That said, the book was fun to read and some of the schematics could be useful in other applications.
45 of 49 people found the following review helpful
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This book is really a glorified advertisement for the services of Mr Iannini's company, which supplies many of the things they term "specialist components" It is rather like a Meccanno (Erector) instruction book, for which you discover you have fully 75% of the parts already, but the remaining 25% are not in the box. It may be that you are satisfied with building models from kits of bits, but the spirit once engendered in Scientific American's Amateur Scientist column, which told you, in quite sufficient detail, how to make your own CO2 laser, from SCRATCH, is missing from this book - why one just buys the magic bits from the authors company. What Evil Genius worth his salt is going to buy parts off the shelf, without understanding how they do what they do, and missing the fun of discovery ?
YMMV
Steve
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Its been quite a few years since Bob Ianini popped up.
I cut my teeth on Babani, Penfold and Ianini projects back when only the truly geeky knew what a computer was, and have built many of his kits. It led me to design my own projects, and develop a 30-year flux-breathing obsession.
I'm not very impressed with this book, I have to say. Bob Ianini has obviously spent way too long in the private market, selling pieces for his kits because he has got very professionally lazy.
For the dabbler, its too accessible in the early stages but hard to complete, and will quickly bore those who just want to impress their mates. Probably just as well, one does not dabble with high energy, lasers and ultrasonic pain fields lightly! The lunatic who wants a high-voltage power supply to blow things up with will be easily satisfied however. The 'projects' involved have been carefully put together to lead the amateur into thinking they are an Evil Mad Scientist, inventing mad things. However the reality is that these are kits, with bespoke parts directly from Ianini's team that you have to have to make it work.
If Bob wanted to make another book about crazy electronics he should have stuck to his original informative style, with loads of hints and tips on how else to finish the project if the off-the-shelf parts werent available.
That being said, if you have a little knowledge and would like to build some kits that dont just flash pretty lights or make silly noises, then this is the book for you. It will cost, particularly if you dont live in the USA because the important parts have to be bought through their website, and only a true expert (who doesnt need this book!) would be able to complete the kits without. Bob does give limited information in this direction, but covers himself neatly by saying these parts are dangerous. Sorry Bob, but to someone who does more than dabble this reeks of capitalism - because the finished project is usually a lot more dangerous than the part needed to create it if it is misused. To me, if someone is willing to misuse a project, then they'd find a way of hurting themselves anyway. Selling them the gear to do it really doesnt help in that situation...
I'll give this a personal 3/10 for 'copping out'. However without the benefit of my experience I'd probably give it a 7/10 - it is an impressive body of work, honed through years of research, and contains some unusual and powerful kits compared to the usual fare.
I cut my teeth on Babani, Penfold and Ianini projects back when only the truly geeky knew what a computer was, and have built many of his kits. It led me to design my own projects, and develop a 30-year flux-breathing obsession.
I'm not very impressed with this book, I have to say. Bob Ianini has obviously spent way too long in the private market, selling pieces for his kits because he has got very professionally lazy.
For the dabbler, its too accessible in the early stages but hard to complete, and will quickly bore those who just want to impress their mates. Probably just as well, one does not dabble with high energy, lasers and ultrasonic pain fields lightly! The lunatic who wants a high-voltage power supply to blow things up with will be easily satisfied however. The 'projects' involved have been carefully put together to lead the amateur into thinking they are an Evil Mad Scientist, inventing mad things. However the reality is that these are kits, with bespoke parts directly from Ianini's team that you have to have to make it work.
If Bob wanted to make another book about crazy electronics he should have stuck to his original informative style, with loads of hints and tips on how else to finish the project if the off-the-shelf parts werent available.
That being said, if you have a little knowledge and would like to build some kits that dont just flash pretty lights or make silly noises, then this is the book for you. It will cost, particularly if you dont live in the USA because the important parts have to be bought through their website, and only a true expert (who doesnt need this book!) would be able to complete the kits without. Bob does give limited information in this direction, but covers himself neatly by saying these parts are dangerous. Sorry Bob, but to someone who does more than dabble this reeks of capitalism - because the finished project is usually a lot more dangerous than the part needed to create it if it is misused. To me, if someone is willing to misuse a project, then they'd find a way of hurting themselves anyway. Selling them the gear to do it really doesnt help in that situation...
I'll give this a personal 3/10 for 'copping out'. However without the benefit of my experience I'd probably give it a 7/10 - it is an impressive body of work, honed through years of research, and contains some unusual and powerful kits compared to the usual fare.
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I got into home projects a few months ago, I have been looking for interesting things to do
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Published 6 days ago by Lois B. Hounslea
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Published on 22 Dec 2004 by Mr. David P. Stephenson
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