The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse ─ Defend Your Base With Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

What will you do on the inevitable day that zombies finally overrun the planet? GrabThe Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse from under your bed, follow the instructions, and fortify your house!

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.

Take charge of your environment:

• Monitor zombie movement with trip wires and motion sensors
• Keep vigilant watch over your compound with a surveillance system
• Shed light on a dark situation with low-power LED lighting
• Detect other natural disasters with temperature and fire detectors

• Send messages with a Morse code flasher and a silent haptic communication device
• Find other human broadcasts with an FM radio frequency hopper

• Distract zombies with flash, movement, and noise makers so you can flee
• Build a remote-controlled door to let you inside without fumbling with keys

Simon Monk is a full-time author who writes about hardware and electronics. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Cybernetics and a Ph.D in Software Engineering. He is the author of 16 books, includingRaspberry Pi Cookbook (O'Reilly Media), Hacking Electronics (Tab Books),Programming Arduino (Tab Books), and Practical Electronics for Inventors (Tab Books), among many other titles.