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Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake, or how to generate battery power with simple household items, or how to create your own home security system? Science-savvy author Cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these things and more than 40 other handy gadgets. More than a simple do-it-yourself guide, this quirky collection is a valuable resource for transforming ordinary objects into the extraordinary. With over 80 solutions show more and bonus applications at your disposal, you will be ready for almost any situation. Included are survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun. Amaze your friends by: transforming a simple FM radio into a device that enables you to eavesdrop on tower-to-air conversations; creating your own personalized electronic greeting cards; making a compact fire extinguisher from items typically found in a kitchen pantry; thwarting intruders with a single rubber band. By using run-of-the-mill household items and the easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams within, you'll be able to complete most projects in just a few minutes.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Good, but unless you have multiple watch batteries a cassette player and other obsolete technologies, this may be too outdated. It was published in 03, but references a lot of things I don't have around any more. 3 for the stuff I didn't know though.
How to turn a peny into a radio, make a flood alarm with an aspirin, etc
Learn to make: Milk plastic, Milk glue, fruit batteries, coin batteries, home security alarms, fire extinguishers, gel pack, magnetic bill verifier & many other useful gadgets out of common household items.
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Common Knowledge
- Epigraph
- "Life... is what we make it." -William James
- First words
- You don't have to be 007 to adapt unique gadgets, secure a room from intruders, or get the upper hand over aggressors.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For more information about assembling survival kits, see the Resources section that follows.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 621.3815 — Applied science & technology Engineering Applied physics Electronics & Computers Electronics, communications engineering Electronics
- LCC
- TK9965 .T9324 — Technology Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear Electricity for amateurs. Amateur
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- 580
- Popularity
- 50,711
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.14)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 5
