Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: Turn a penny into a radio, change milk into plastic, make a dozen STEM projects with everyday things, and other amazing feats will help you transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary! Prepare yourself for almost any situation, including 10 never-before-seen projects focused on Maker initiatives.
Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake? Or how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system? Science-savvy author Cy Tymony does. This quirky collection uses run-of-the-mill household items and easy-to-follow instructions to build useful devices that are sure to amaze friends and family alike!
Here are just a few reasons readers will want to buy Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things and a great bookstore will want to stock this book:
If you loved The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, Life Hacks: The King of Random’s Tips and Tricks, or Handy Household Hints from Heloise, you’ll love Sneaky Uses.
Sneaky Uses offers easy-to-do demonstrations for science teachers, elementary teachers, and homeschooling parents. Amaze your students with practical uses of everyday items!
Do you love science kits? Sneaky Uses is an amazing and magical science kit in book form. Ordinary household objects provide the tools for this portable science kit.
Publishers Weekly: Adventurous, inquisitive teens may delight in a book that shows them how to use ordinary objects as sneaky weapons.
Thinking creatively is not only possible. It can produce amazing results! If you love to hack, you’ll love this book.
“Use a magnet to detect a counterfeit bill? Build a battery out of basically anything? My health insurer sent me home with the instructions included here to make a frozen gel pack for a sprain. These are interesting and low-cost ideas for STEM projects with no upper age limit.” — Diane H.
“In closing, let's measure something. Check out this Pi Detector by the ingenious Cy Tymony, creator of the popular Sneaky Science and Math discovery series. Why does Cy do what he does? I asked, and he responded with the following.
“I love science and technology and the wonderful things you can do with a little sneaky information using discarded items and without special tools.
“For instance, virtually anyone can: Make an AM radio with a penny, create fire with water, turn a screw in an AM/FM radio and listen to aircraft broadcasts, turn on devices with your ring, convert a pencil into a microphone, convert a calculator into a metal detector, make a James Bond spy jacket and more.
“Wait. Music from a penny? It's true. Check it out here—from Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things. Pretty amazing. (Thank you, Andrews McMeel Publishing.)” — Gary Antonik, New York Times
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things, Revised Edition: Turn a penny into a radio, change milk into plastic, make a dozen STEM projects with everyday things, and other amazing feats
Cy Tymony, author
192 pages, softcover, 4.8 x 7.0 inches
ISBN: 9781524853303
Retail Price: $12.99 paperback
Publication date: March 2020
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Book website: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/sneaky-uses-for-everyday-things-revised-edition
Author website: http://www.sneakyuses.com/thebooks.html
Author email: cy.tymony@yahoo.com
Cy Tymony has been creating homemade inventions since childhood. He has appeared on CNN Headline News, ABC's Chicago Morning Show, and NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow, and he has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and Future Life magazine. A technical writer and computer specialist, Cy lives in Los Angeles, California.
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