Book description
Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the world of hackerspaces: your invitation to share knowledge, master tools, work together, build amazing stuff–and have a flat-out blast doing it.
Twin Cities Maker co-founder John Baichtal explains it all: what hackerspaces are, how they work, who runs them, what they’re building—and how you can join (or start!) one. Next, he walks you through 24 of today’s best hackerspace projects…everything from robotic grilled-cheese sandwich-makers to devices that make music with zaps of electricity. Every project’s packed with color photos, explanations, lists of resources and tools, and instructions for getting started on your own similar project so you can DIY!
JUST SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT INCLUDE…
• Kung-fu fighting robots
• Home-brewed Geiger counter
• TransAtlantic balloon
• Twitter-monitoring Christmas tree
• Sandwich-making robot
• Interactive Space Invaders mural
• CNC mill that carves designs into wood, plastic and metal
• Telepresence robot that runs an Internet classroom
• Toy cars that are ridden by people
• Bronze-melting blast furnace
• Laptop-controlled robot fashioned from a wheelchair
• DIY book scanner
JOHN BAICHTAL is a founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Twin ities Maker has its own rented warehouse complete with a welding station, woodshop, classroom, and ham radio transmitter. Baichtal has written dozens of articles, including pieces for AKE, the D&D publication Kobold Quarterly, and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has contributed to Wired.com’s GeekDad blog for four years and blogged at Make: Online for two, publishing more than 1,500 posts during that time. He is now writing a book about Lego.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Foreword: Support Your Local Hackerspace
- Introduction: Hackerspaces: The Bleeding Edge of the DIY Movement
- Project 1: Karate Champ Game
- Project 2: Sudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot
- Project 3: Networked Geiger Counter
- Project 4: Glass Block LED Matrix
- Project 5: Bronze-Melting Blast Furnace
- Project 6: Milkymist VJ Console
- Project 7: White Star Trans-Atlantic Balloon
- Project 8: Twitter-Monitoring Christmas Tree
- Project 9: Live Wire Go Game
- Project 10: Hack Signal
- Project 11: Tardis Photobooth
- Project 12: Interactive Space Invaders Mural
- Project 13: Telepresence Robot
- Project 14: The Polyplasmic Arcophone
- Project 15: DIY CNC Router
- Project 16: LED Matrix Gaming System
- Project 17: MAME Cabinet
- Project 18: Book Scanner
- Project 19: OpenDuino
- Project 20: Project-a-Sketch
- Project 21: Power Racing Car
- Project 22: Party Land Pinball Game
- Project 23: Store Front Music
- Project 24: Wheelchair Robot
- Do It Yourself
- Hackerspeak
- Index
Product information
- Title: Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780132731812
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