Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius : 28 Build-It-Yourself | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Iannini, Robert Iannini
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
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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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 Not for the inexperienced February 24, 2010
Andrew C. Hayes (Dallas, TX)
For someone who knows what they're doing, this book can be a lot of fun. If you want to go from components to soldering to get a safe fun toy this isn't the book for you.
Yes, if you use the author's website as your sole part source this book is quite the ripoff. However if you use your own PCB, and wholesale parts (or better yet parts from old stereos etc.) you can build the projects for under $100.
Money aside, although these projects are fun.. they can be time consuming, and downright dangerous. Some of the high power projects contain more than enough power to kill you or someone else with ease.
 He loved it! February 8, 2010
S. Vickery (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Bought this for my boss's son who likes to take her home appliances apart. He thought this was the coolest thing.
 A good book but don't try building anything unless you know what you're doing January 24, 2010
Melnorme (Boulder, CO)
The projects described in this book are if nothing else very interesting. However, outside of science demonstrations I don't think most people will find the gadgets described in this book very useful. But if you are a hobbyist with a penchant for high voltage devices and lasers then this book is loaded with great ideas and information. Yes, the author does advertise his online store quite often throughout the book, but to be fair some of the required components are difficult to find and/or modify. Also, unless you really enjoy PCB design and layout, purchasing the PCBs from the author's store is a huge time saver. As others have stated, a good number of these projects can get either you or someone else seriously hurt or even killed. If you are unfamiliar with how to handle high voltages, controlled expolosions and high powered lasers, then please do not attempt to build any of these projects.
 interesting ideas - but author ruins book trying to make a quick buck October 18, 2009
Rich Olson (Seattle, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the projects could have been designed / described using widely-available parts - but instead they all direct you back to the author's website to purchase the required (proprietary) components.
to make sure you don't buy the parts someplace else - he also leaves out detailed descriptions of the said items - which really detracts from the value of the plans in the first place.
interesting ideas - and can be fun the thumb through.
however - if you're really interested in building this stuff - this is not the place to start.
 Electronic Gadget Book November 23, 2008
William J. Blesener (Houston, TX)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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. such as Electrokinetic gun,
fish stun gun, magnetic can crusher. This book would be geat as a science
poject book, for kids! wb
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