Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement (Paperback)

Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the world of hackerspaces: your invitation to share knowledge, master tools, work together, build amazing stuff–and have a flat-out blast doing it.

Twin Cities Maker co-founder John Baichtal explains it all: what hackerspaces are, how they work, who runs them, what they’re building—and how you can join (or start!) one. Next, he walks you through 24 of today’s best hackerspace projects…everything from robotic grilled-cheese sandwich-makers to devices that make music with zaps of electricity. Every project’s packed with color photos, explanations, lists of resources and tools, and instructions for getting started on your own similar project so you can DIY!

JUST SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT INCLUDE…

• Kung-fu fighting robots

• Home-brewed Geiger counter

• TransAtlantic balloon

• Twitter-monitoring Christmas tree

• Sandwich-making robot

• Interactive Space Invaders mural

• CNC mill that carves designs into wood, plastic and metal

• Telepresence robot that runs an Internet classroom

• Toy cars that are ridden by people

• Bronze-melting blast furnace

• Laptop-controlled robot fashioned from a wheelchair

• DIY book scanner

JOHN BAICHTAL is a founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Twin  ities Maker has its own rented warehouse complete with a welding station, woodshop, classroom, and ham radio transmitter. Baichtal has written dozens of articles, including pieces for AKE, the D&D publication Kobold Quarterly, and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has contributed to Wired.com’s GeekDad blog for four years and blogged at Make: Online for two, publishing more than 1,500 posts during that time. He is now writing a book about Lego.

加入當今創意和社群的新革命：hackerspaces。不要再讓別人為你建造一切：自己動手。探索、抓住工具、親自動手、弄髒手...並創造你從未想像過的東西。Hack This是你通往hackerspaces世界的光榮、全彩通行證：邀請你分享知識、掌握工具、共同合作、建造驚人的東西，並在其中盡情享受。

Twin Cities Maker的創辦人之一John Baichtal解釋了一切：hackerspaces是什麼，它們如何運作，由誰管理，他們正在建造什麼，以及你如何加入（或開始）一個。接下來，他將帶你了解當今最好的24個hackerspace項目...從製作烤芝士三明治的機器人到用電擊製作音樂的設備。每個項目都有彩色照片、解釋、資源和工具清單，以及開始自己類似項目的指示，讓你可以自己動手！

你將學到的一些項目包括：
• 功夫機器人
• 自製蓋革計數器
• 橫跨大西洋的氣球
• 監控Twitter的聖誕樹
• 製作三明治的機器人
• 互動Space Invaders壁畫
• 可在木材、塑料和金屬上雕刻設計的CNC銑床
• 運行網絡教室的遠程機器人
• 由人騎乘的玩具車
• 熔銅爐
• 由輪椅改裝的筆記型電腦控制機器人
• 自製書籍掃描器

John Baichtal是Twin Cities Maker的創始成員，這是一個已經合作了近兩年的hackerspace組織。位於明尼蘇達州明尼阿波利斯-聖保羅的Twin Cities Maker擁有自己租借的倉庫，裡面設有焊接站、木工店、教室和無線電發射器。Baichtal已經撰寫了數十篇文章，包括為AKE、D&D出版物Kobold Quarterly和2600: The Hacker Quarterly等刊物。他在Wired.com的GeekDad博客上撰稿已經四年，在Make: Online上撰寫了兩年，期間發表了1500多篇文章。他現在正在撰寫一本關於樂高的書籍。