15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius

UNLEASH YOUR INNER MAD SCIENTIST!

"Wonderful. I learned a lot reading the detailed but easy to understand instructions."--BoingBoing

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

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Customer Reviews:

Evil, Ingenious.

By Bruce Miller - May 23, 2011

This book is a must have for any "mad scientist" in your life. The projects are giddy-up fun to read and you can actually build them without being an engineer.

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... read more

Another Great Evil Genius Publication

By John Heath - July 29, 2011

As usual, Simon Monk's writing is inspiring and his enthusiasm infectious. The book presents 15 easy-build projects, mostly involving electronic circuitry of some knd and one or two contain my favourite dev platform, the Arduino. The book is also linked to a web site (...) which gives further information and a chapter to download for free.

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.

Creative Electronic Projects Guide

By Mariano Figueroa - May 28, 2011

This new edition to the Evil Genius series is tons of fun. Most of the projects involve some electronics and there is a difficulty scale that lets you decide how Evil you want to be before you get started. I really enjoyed the levitation project, making things float is always cool. Some projects use the ever so popular Arduino microprocessor board, giving you a taste at what the Arduino can do. All the projects really are step-by-step and each project has a theory section allowing you to understand what is really going on.