Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition

Evil Genius

by Bob Iannini

BUILD ALL-NEW FIENDISHLY FUN ELECTRONICS PROJECTS! Spark your creativity with this wickedly inventive guide. Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, is filled with completely new, amped-up projects that will shock and amaze, such as super-big Tesla coils, lasers, plasma devices, and electrokinetics contraptions.

Using affordable, easy-to-find components and equipment, each do-it-yourself project begins with information on safety, the difficulty level, practical uses for the gadget, and the tools needed to complete the project. You'll gain valuable skills while enjoying hours of rewarding--and slightly twisted--fun!

Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition:


Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations
Provides full schematic and construction details for every project
Covers the scientific principles behind the projects
Removes the frustration factor--all required parts are listed along with sources
Build these and other devious devices:


Automatic programmable charger
Full-feature plasma driver
Capacitor-discharge drilling machine and dielectric tester
Capacitor exploder
Field detector
High-power therapeutic magnetic pulser
Singing arc
Solid-state Tesla coil
Six-foot Jacob's ladder
Free high-voltage experimental energy device
HHO reactor cell
Hydrogen howitzer
Faraday cage

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, How To, Reference, Technology

336 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2004

Reviews

[Michael Roop · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a fantastic book. so much mischievous fun to be had in this book. Quick read? Bet your bottom dollar it is. Flip this book open to a project that sounds cool and get to reading. This book suffers from a few problems though. First: there is no definitive parts list, but if your creative you you got this one. Second: (and this one is personal)I SUCK AT SOLDERING!!! Finally: no definitive parts list coupled with schematics creates a brain melt down for the logic, but for a redneck like myself; it's sheer creative heaven. I can't wait to play with some these toys. Hello Mr. Tesla coil!

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating pulsed power projects for the home player. Carefully written, practical instructions, some inventive ideas, and some approaches I had not considered to make "mad science in your own lab" much more practical. Now you can build a small Marx bank in your garage -- but still high potential to blow up the garage. Not for beginners (and definitely not for unsupervised youngsters. But if you've always wanted to electromechanically launch a projectile, this is the book you've been waiting for.

[Danelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book, although I have yet to build something from it (but I did do some soldering on a different project earlier today!). It was on the coffee table when we had some friends over and it was a GREAT conversation starter! LOL!

[Tor Paulin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of interesting projects.

[Mikael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kivoja käikäleitä kirja täynnä.. mm. Tesla coileja.

[Richard Dahm · Rating 1 out of 5]

Useless book, projects aren't feasible fantasy engineering.

[Bkspidey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of fun, but has a few errors and inaccuracies in the instructions.

[Morgan Summerfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes I must play the part of 'evil genius' and this helps.