John Baichtal: 13 books
Building Your Own Drones
A Beginners' Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Absolutely no experience needed!
Build your drone, step-by-step, with this full-color, hands-on guide!
You’ve heard about drones. You’ve seen drones. Now, build your own—it’s a lot easier than you think!
Drones are the newest frontier for the DIY/maker community,...
Hack This
24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
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...
Robot Builder
The Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Absolutely no experience needed! Learn robot building from the ground up, hands-on, in full color! Love robots? Start building them. It’s way easier than you ever imagined! John Baichtal has helped thousands of people get started with robotics. He knows what beginners need to know. He knows...
by John Baichtal
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Basic Robot Building with LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT 2.0 ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Learn LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT 2.0 from the ground up, hands-on, in full color! Ever wanted to build a robot? Now’s the time, LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT 2.0 is the technology, and this is the book. You can do this,...
by John Baichtal, James Floyd Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
EV3 without limits!
Build 5 amazing robotics projects that take DIY to a whole new level!
You can do way more with your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit than anyone ever told you! In this full-color, step-by-step tutorial, top-maker and best-selling author John Baichtal shows...
Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta
A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Jimmy DiResta has made a name for himself with his inventiveness and workshop skills, creating dozens of projects for YouTube videos and television shows such as Hammered and Against the Grain on the DIY network. In Make: Workshop Mastery With Jimmy DiResta, Jimmy and co-author John Baichtal teach...
Arduino for Beginners
Essential Skills Every Maker Needs
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
ARDUINO for BEGINNERS ESSENTIAL SKILLS EVERY MAKER NEEDS Loaded with full-color step-by-step illustrations! Absolutely no experience needed! Learn Arduino from the ground up, hands-on, in full color! Discover Arduino, join the DIY movement, and build an amazing spectrum of projects… limited...
3D Printing Projects
Toys, Bots, Tools, and Vehicles To Print Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Even if you've never touched a 3D printer, these projects will excite and empower you to learn new skills, extend your current abilities, and awaken your creative impulses. Each project uses a unique combination of electronics, hand assembly techniques, custom 3D-printed parts, and software, while...
Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
Projects for extending MINDSTORMS NXT with open-source electronics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Make amazing robots and gadgets with two of today’s hottest DIY technologies. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll learn how to build devices with Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0, the Arduino prototyping platform, and some add-on components to bridge the two. Mindstorms alone lets you create incredible...
Maker Pro
Essays on Making a Living as a Maker
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Maker Pro is a book of essays by more than a dozen prominent and up-and-coming professional makers (Maker Pros). Each essay includes advice and stories on topics such as starting a kit-making business, taking a hardware project open-source, and plenty of encouragement to "quit your day job."...
Make: Bicycle Projects
Upgrade, Accessorize, and Customize with Electronics, Mechanics, and Metalwork
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
What is a bicycle? The answer is a little trickier than you might think. More than just a form of transportation, your bike is a framework on which you can explore and display your own inventiveness.With a full history of the bicycle and information about commercial mods such as adding baby seats...
10 LED Projects for Geeks
Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
10 LED Projects for Geeks is a collection of interactive and customizable projects that all have the humble LED in common, but don’t write them off as basic! You’ll learn how to make challenging and imaginative gadgets like a magic wand that controls lights using hand gestures, a pen-sized controller...
Building with Virtual LEGO: Getting Started with LEGO Digital Designer, LDraw, and Mecabricks
Getting Started with LEGO Digital Designer, LDraw™, and Mecabricks
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Virtually build any LEGO creation you can imagine—with any LEGO part ever made!
This fun guide shows how to create just about anything from virtual LEGO blocks using free software. Learn how to install and customize LEGO Digital Designer, navigate the user interface, and get started on your...