Book description
Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is a geeky toy-making and craft book, stuffed with projects like sewing a stuffed sock squid, building a steam-powered milk-carton boat, soldering an oversized joy buzzer, and crafting working boomerangs. Readers create board games, musical instruments, and cool toys that move. The book assumes no prior knowledge of skills like carpentry, sewing, and soldering, and each project is explained from the ground up. Primers on topics like basic electronics help readers master foundational techniques so that anyone, regardless of their experience or skill level, can pick up this book and successfully build the projects. Projects are suitable for a wide range of builders and are all cheap, or even free, to build-best of all, once each project is built, readers have something totally sweet. Every project includes tips, tricks, and technical data that will help readers expand and modify the projects, or craft something totally new.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Brief Contents
- Contents in Detail
- Introduction
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Part I: Kid Stuff
- Project 1: Lock-n-Latch Treasure Chest
- Project 2: Switchbox: A Soldering Project for Greenhorns
- Project 3: The Sock Squid
- Project 4: The PVC Teepee
- Project 5: Cheap Mesh Screen Printing
- Project 6: Shut-the-Box: A Pirate Dicing Game
- Project 7: Ticklebox: Jolt Your Friends
- Project 8: Small-Board Go/Tafl
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Part II: Electro-Skiffle Band
- Project 9: X-Ray Talking Drum
- Project 10: Thunderdrum
- Project 11: The Electro-Didgeridoo
- Project 12: The Dirt-Cheap Amp
- Project 13: The $10 Electric Guitar
- Project 14: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Stomp Boxes: The Spring Reverb
- Project 15: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Stomp Boxes: The Blinkie Tremolo
- Project 16: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Stomp Boxes: The Two-Transistor Fuzztone
- Project 17: Cigar-Box Synthesizer
- Part III: The Locomotivated
- Appendix: Electronics Components, Tools, and Skills
Product information
- Title: Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593272593
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