Backyard Ballistics  |  Whoosh Boom Splat  |  Building Bots
The Art of the Catapult  |  Adventures from the Technology Underground  |  Absinthe and Flamethrowers

Bill's books and experience cover some of the most extreme and interesting technology on earth, but it's technology of a personal, individual sort. From gigantic wood hewn catapults to vegetable firing air cannons; from insanely powerful warrior robots to stratosphere seeking high flying amateur rockets; from ultra high voltage backyard experimentation to just about anything you can imagine, Bill's books and experience take you there.

Backyard Ballistics
This step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials.

Whoosh Boom Splat
In a return to the hands-on, you-can-do-it-too practicality of Backyard Ballistics, William Gurstelle puts the technophile spotlight on the homemade machines that garage warriors dream of quitting their jobs to build. Must reading for tinkerers (and would-be tinkerers) everywhere.

Building Bots
This is the definitive guide to designing and building warrior robots like those seen on BattleBots, Robotica, and Robot Wars.

The Art of the Catapult
Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey-ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults.

Adventures from the Technology Underground Slide Show

Adventures from the Technology Underground
From the Burning Man festival in Nevada's high desert to the latest gathering of Large Dangerous Rocket Ship builders to Delaware's annual Punkin Chunkin competition (a celebration of "science, radical self-expression, and beer"), you'll meet the inspired, government-unregulated, and corporately unfettered men and women who operate at the furthest fringes of science, engineering, and wild-eyed arc welding, building the catapults, ultra-high-voltage electrical devices, incendiary artworks, fighting robots, and other machines that demonstrate what's possible when physics meets human ingenuity.

Absinthe and Flamethrowers
This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects shows you how to add excitement to your life. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and details "the art of living dangerously".

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