Junkyard Jam Band includes complete instructions for building 14 awesome musical projects on the cheap-using everything from cigar boxes and guitar strings to plastic cups, headphone jacks, and Altoids tins. With a handy soldering and electronics primer at the end of the book, no previous experience is required! The projects include audio effect generators, a sequencer, an electric ukelele, a PVC slide-whistle, and even an acoustic-electric thumb piano. Each project includes step-bystep, illustrated instructions and a collection of tips and mods that show ways to take each project in a different direction. The book also includes information on the best ways to play or use the various projects, and touches on topics like circuits, soldering, and audio-related physics that apply to the instruments. From the author of the popular Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred.

David Erik Nelson is an essayist, freelance writer, and award-winning science fiction author whose stories have appeared in Asimov's and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others. He is the author of Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred (No Starch Press).