Electronic Sensors for the Evil Genius

by Tom Petruzzellis and Thomas Petruzzellis

Book Overview

54 super-entertaining projects offer insights into the sights, sounds, and smells of nature Nature meets the Evil Genius via 54 fun, safe, and inexpensive projects that allow you to explore the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071470360
• ISBN13: 9780071470360
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

I think this book is cool

My ex was getting in to programming arduinos and small robotics. I bought him this for Christmas, but I never saw him open it once. I opened it, it looked pretty informative and interesting. If I were programming small electronics, I'd buy it again, only for myself this time.

An Inspiring Manual

Also great reference for the rest of us. As a robotics enthusiast, I found the subject of this manual to be of intense interest. After receiving the book, I was further amazed by the inspiring variety and depth of the coverage of the subject matter. MacGyver would have loved this book! For best results, I would recommend that reader has at least a basic knowledge in electronics. Whether your intention is to give 5 senses to your robotics project, build your own weather station, or build a paranormal detection device, you're well on your way with this compilation.

Nice collection of sensor projects

Interesting collection of projects that require more than a simple trip to the Radio Shack to build. Each project has considerable scientific background information not just an electrical schematic and parts list. Many of the projects would make worthwhile science fair projects or other amateur science pursuits.

And I thought Electronic Projects Were Dead

Back many, many years ago, when the earth was flat and the sun went around the earth, I built a whole series of crystal radios. It seemed to me that something was lost when everything electronic became a chip and nearly everything you could imagine was made in Japan. Now all of a sudden comes along this book. No, alas, there's not a crystal radio in it, but there's a short wave radio that's made with three chips. The complexity of the circuits is about the same as the old crystal sets. And the thrill of listening to WWV tell you the time as to be about the same as listening to the local radio station on the crystal set the first time. There are quite a number of projects suitable for science fairs and the like. Come to think of it, building one of those electronic compasses from page 178 might be a good project even for an old kid of my advanced age.