amateur's manuals

A guide to plumbing that covers repairs and upgrades to toilets, sinks, faucets, water heaters, and more, with color photographs, illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and tips on topics such as cutting and joining different types of piping; fixture installation; and stopping leaks.

"Have you ever wanted to improvise a planetarium in your own home, boost a wi-fi signal, or turn a bike into a unicycle? The innovative projects in this guide include home improvements, gadget upgrades, and tweaks for fitness and sports. Readers will learn how to use basic woodworking tools, laser cutters, programming, and more to help build these hacks. Ranging from five-minute fixes to challenging, multiday projects, this manual ranks each project in terms of time, cost, and difficulty, while also emphasizing safety protocols for the most complex hacks"--Provided by publisher.

The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is the manual you need to survive in the land of the walking dead. In this guide, expert hardware hacker and zombie aficionado Simon Monk starts by teaching you to generate electricity with solar and pedal power. From there, you'll craft essential electronic survival tools from scavenged components, an Arduino, and a Raspberry Pi.

Presents sixty-five projects from "Make" magazine, with diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and additional resources for each technology-based project.

Describes procedures that take the complexity out of producing white light reflection and transmission of holograms of all kinds of three-dimensional objects.