Product Description

101 projects that appeal to the spy in you

Utilizing inexpensive, easily obtainable components, you can build the same information gathering, covert sleuthing devices used by your favorite film secret agent. Projects range from simple to sophisticated and come complete with a list of required parts and tools, numerous illustrations, and step-by-step assembly instructions.

• Projects include: scanners and radios, night vision devices, telephone devices, computer monitoring, audio eavesdropping, hidden cameras, video transmitters, and more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202149 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-19
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .65" h x 8.58" w x 10.82" l, 1.40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 259 pages

Chronicle-Journal, April 10, 2006
“It includes everything from phone tapers to a wallet-sized spy robot equipped with sensitive microphones and a video camera.”

From the Back Cover
101 SPY DEVICES FOR SERIOUS SNOOPING

This book offers an amazingly awesome and complete collection of professional spy tools that you can build yourself. You can build any project in this thrilling arsenal of spy devices for $30 or less! Not only that, even total beginners to electronics can construct these mind-boggling snooping tools.

You get complete, easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and hundreds of pictures. 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius gives you:

• Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing sleuthin' 'n snoopin' devices, presented in sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers
• Loads of projects simple enough for new spies to construct easily, progressing in complexity to devices that will excite investigation professionals
• Explanations of the science and math behind each project
• Frustration-factor removal -- needed parts are listed, along with sources

101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for devices that let you:

• Build and install a nanny cam for viewing and recording activity from afar
• Hear and record what's said from great distances
• See and photograph in the dark
• Wire yourself for undetected recording
• Construct a hidden briefcase camera
• Tap and record telephone conversations
• Privately record every called number, with a time stamp, from any phone
• Build a secret time-lapse camera
• Build and install motion-activated spy cameras or listening devices
• Alter photographic evidence
• Digitally disguise your telephone voice
• Secretly install key-logging software to see what's done on any computer
• Learn what Web sites others are surfing
• Recover deleted computer files
• View other peoples' computer screens from your PC
• Control your spy equipment from afar

About the Author
Brad Graham is an inventor, robotics hobbyist, founder and host of atomiczombie.com Web site, which receives nearly a million hits a month, and a computer professional. He is the coauthor of Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza, perhaps the most creative bicycle-building guide ever written, and Build Your Own All-Terrain Robot, both also from McGraw-Hill. Technical manager of Freedom 2000 Complete Technical Services, which specializes in computer network setup and maintenance, data storage and recovery, and security services, Mr. Graham is also a Certified Netware Engineer, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a Certified Electronics and Cabling Technician.

Kathy McGowan provides logistical and marketing support for Brad's many robotics, bicycle, computer, and publishing projects. She also manages the daily operations of Freedom 2000 and several Web sites, including atomiczombie.com and xtremeclothes.com, as well as various Internet-based blogs and forums. Additionally, Ms. McGowan provides computer training, advises on Internet security risks, and writes articles for ezines.