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Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius : 28 Build-It-Yourself [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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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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Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (March 12, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071426094
ISBN-13: 978-0071426091
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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An antigravity project provides a means of levitating an object purely by electrical forces (see Figure 1-1). Read the first page

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vertical electrolytic capacitor, vinyl hookup wire, electrical pretest, flyway tube, grid perforated board, safety discharge probe, spark switch electrodes, avoid bare wire bridges, potential solder shorts, sandwiching action, toroidal terminal, foil skirt, heatsink bracket, perforated circuit board, loose solder joints, accelerator coil, enclosure tube, ion ray gun, charging switch, vector board, plastic capacitor, preset voltage level, vinyl wire, wall adapter, laser module

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4.0 out of 5 stars Overview of Interesting Projects, April 6, 2005

By	Stuart Gardner "www.sdgardner.com" (Fair Lawn, NJ) - See all my reviews

This book assumes alot. To start with, a back ground in electronic engineering. If you don't have practical real world (or at least laboratory experience), you could get yourself, or worse, someone else, killed.

I wouldn't suggest this as a source book for high school science projects; it's as likely to get you a term of 5 - 10 in a state run facility (not college) as an A grade. Given the current climate, using a high power laser pointer could land you in a fair bit of trouble (the book does point this out). This is also one of the better documented projects.

The other factors that the book does not consider are:
* Budget. These are not low cost projects.
* Time. Plan on doing research outside this book.

From the 28, there is one project I plan to try. Read the contents page before buying - unless there is at least one project you really want to do (and sink time and money into). I would pass. Some of the plans are more like overviews.

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1.0 out of 5 stars One word to describe this book: ripoff!, August 27, 2006

By	Koen Van Baelen - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book claims you can build all projects with standard components. However, every project contains at least one component that can only be ordered on the website of the author! No details about those components is provided to force you to buy it in his shop and make it almost impossible to find it somewhere else. Also, the claim that all projects can be built for less than 100$ is an outright lie! Most projects are very expensive.
I can be very brief about this book. Don't buy it! It's just an advertisement folder for his own company disguised as a book. Besides, every project in it can be found in one form or another on the internet for free.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Very misleading, yet fascinating at the same time, February 21, 2005

By	COSMOS (USA) - See all my reviews

I was intrigued by the types of "gadgets" that could be built with the guidance of the book and decided to pick up a copy and start with the "Laser Window Bounce Listening Device". The most important restrictive factor in building these projects, for me, happened to be the cost of each. Since the book claims on the back cover that "needed parts are listed, along with their sources - and most of these projects can be built for $100 or less." Great, I thought! "$100 or less". Not so! The book is very misleading in this respect. For example, there are a total of 28 different projects to build, of which only 15 are "$100 or less" (many are a few hundred dollars)! The book misleads you further by giving the total price for "basic parts" ONLY or "specialized parts" ONLY!!

Let's add insult to injury by mentioning that the book seems to be an advertising tool for the author's company: Information Unlimited. This is the source for the "specialized parts", such as the "printed circuit boards"...that is, IF you can find the part!

So, getting back to the project I had wanted to build: the "Listening Device". The book says that the project would cost "$100 for BASIC PARTS" (my emphasis). Really? And what about the other parts? The most important parts, such as the "image converter tube" for the "See in the dark" project or "the special prepared plasma tube" for the lightsaber project? Where on the website can I find these among many other "specialized parts"? Asking questions about parts from their company is just as tedious and a waste of time as you will be sent from one phone number to another to get a small piece of information. Not worth it.

So, overall, the book may seem innocent and fun to learn from and exciting in its list of potential projects to build, but if you don't have a lot of throw-away cash AND a lot of throw-away time, especially spent at their advertised company, then I highly advise staying away from this book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Electronic Gadget Book
Although this book has excellent design features (schematics, pictures,notes and a numbered assembly list), however, I was not impressed with some of the items to build. Read more

Published 7 months ago by William J. Blesener

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite nice, if you go in with your eyes open
At first I wasn't sure about the book, as it is a thinly veiled advertisement for Information Unlimited, and has many items you can only get from them to build the projects. Read more

Published 9 months ago by S. Cover

1.0 out of 5 stars Arcane, overpriced parts with vague descriptions needed. "Information Limited"
I got this book for my birthday, glancing through the pages it seemed full of exciting projects to build. My enthusiasm wore off once I started building the projects. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Pen Name

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Published on July 18, 2007 by R. Morales

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This text has the best instructions for building a Tesla coil!

Published on June 8, 2007 by Douglas A. Goodwin

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and enlightening
So buy this book if you are curious and want to know how to build things. Do not buy this book if you have no intention of wanting to learn how to read electrical schematics. Read more

Published on March 23, 2007 by Robert H. Johnson

3.0 out of 5 stars Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius
Has alot of useful facts on topics. Parts lists are out of date. Electrical supply houses and Radio Shack have most of the parts but never enough to finish a project.

Published on January 18, 2007 by Rick Ross

3.0 out of 5 stars Rather incomplete.
It's an interesting glance-thru, but the projects are out-of-scope for most people and require buying supplies from the publisher.

Published on January 11, 2007 by JC Holzer

2.0 out of 5 stars Giant commercial...
Meh, I had high hopes for this book, I really did.

Some of the projects are really interesting, but as it's been pointed out many times before the whole thing is just... Read more

Published on December 15, 2006 by M. Newton

1.0 out of 5 stars What a RIPPPPPP!!!!
Ok....we bought this book for the physics club so we could build some cool gadgets and what not. I completely agree with the other peoples review that the author just plugs his... Read more

Published on March 23, 2006 by C. Brittain

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