The Big Book of Maker Skills: Tools & Techniques for Building Great Tech Projects
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Makers, get ready. This is your ultimate, must-have, tip-packed guide for taking your DIY projects to the next level—from basic wood and metalworking skills to plugged-in fun with power tools, and from cutting-edge electronics play to 3-D printing wizardry. Join Chris Hackett, intrepid DIY-er, on a rummage through the toolbox of yore—and a foray into the technologies of the future.
Packed with demystifying explanations and helpful tips, The Big Book of Maker Skills covers:
HAND TOOLS
A classic is a classic for a reason. Learn to build your own metal forge, screen-print whatever you want, swing a hammer better than your ancestors, and repurpose what Hackett calls “obtanium”—but what others might call trash—into your own mad-scientist creations.
POWER TOOLS
Discover the supreme joy that is angle-grinding, rig your own welding machine out of a junked car battery or three, and meet and master a whole host of electronic gadgets—LEDs, piezo buzzers, solar panels, and more.
ROBOTS & BEYOND
When it comes to making, there’s a whole new skillset in town. Get started with CNC milling, laser-cutting, programming microcontrollers, and 3D printing in a chapter that’s all about building what’s next.
MUCH MORE
Setting up a hackerspace, drones and space exploration tools, circuitry basics, sourcing and crowdsourcing and biotechnology-just to name a few more. You name it; it’s probably in this book.
From the Publisher
Tools & Techniques for Building Great Maker and Tech Projects.
Take your DIY projects to the next level by learning about basic wood- and metalworking skills, cutting-edge electronics, and 3-D printing.
Written by Chris Hackett, Popular Science’s DIY columnist.
Publisher : Weldon Owen
Publication date : September 18, 2018
Language : English
Print length : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 1681884321
ISBN-13 : 978-1681884325
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 6.73 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
