The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Defend Your Base with Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
About the Author Simon Monk is a full-time author and maker mostly writing about elec tronics for makers Some of his better-known books include Programming Arduino Getting Started with Sketches Raspberry Pi Cookbook and Hacking Electronics He is also the co-author of Practical Electronics for Inventors and wrote Minecraft Mastery with his son Matthew Monk Simon also writes for MagPi magazine and helps out with Monk Makes http www monkmakes com a company run by his wife Linda which makes and sells component kits and other products related to Simon’s books You can follow Simon on Twitter where he is simonmonk2 and find out more about his books at http www simonmonk org About the Technical Reviewer Jeremy Blum is a Hardware Astronaut at Google where he focuses on electrical design and advanced prototyping for future Google hardware Jeremy received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University and was selected by the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as the 2012 New Face of Engineering Jeremy’s popular Arduino tutorial videos and his book Exploring Arduino have introduced millions of people around the world to engineering He offers engineering consult ing services through his firm Blum Idea Labs LLC and he frequently teaches engineering courses to young students and adults across the United States Jeremy’s passion is improving people’s lives and our planet through creative engineering solutions you can learn more about him and his work at http www jeremyblum com
Acknowledgments Many thanks to the enthusiastic and dedicated team at No Starch Press especially to my thorough and patient editors Jennifer Griffith-Delgado and Serena Yang who have guided this project from initial idea to finished book with skill and imagination I would especially like to thank Miran Lipovača for his wonderful illus trations that add so much to the book and Jeremy Blum for his technical review of the material I am very honored to have two such noteworthy indi viduals involved in the project Finally I would like to thank Linda see Figure 5-15 for her patience and understanding during the writing of this book
INTRODUCTION This is a book for people who like to make things but also enjoy the premise of a postapocalypse world where you cannot assume a limitless supply of electric ity and other resources As such book starts with projects for generating electricity through solar and pedal power using a scavenged car alternator Once you have power you'll move on to surveillance and monitoring projects that will help you protect your base Finally you'll build communication projects that allow you to find other survivors and even send messages to members of your group via silent haptic communication KEY MAKER SURVIVAL SKILLS Some projects in this book require no more technical skill than being able to attach a wire to a screw terminal while others require you to be able to
