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

The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Defend Your Base with Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi — page 9
Zombies I find that people tend to consider themselves either zombie lovers or zombie indifferent Since you’re reading this book there is a good chance you’re a zombie lover like me The appeal of zombies lies both with the zombies themselves and in the postapocalyptic scenario that the survivors face You could likely defeat a single slow zombie quite easily a baseball bat to the head should do the trick nicely But in numbers zombies become a serious threat If you look up Zombie in Wikipedia you’ll find two entries Zombie fictional and rather worryingly just Zombie The nonfictional zombie is according to Haitian folklore a corpse that can be raised by magic to do its master’s bidding These folklore zombies are never going to be present in significant numbers to cause the sort of apocalypse portrayed in popular culture For a situation where most of the human race has died or been turned into a zombie we need some fictional zombies Types of Zombies Fictional zombies have roots in 19th-century fiction with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein but they became prominent in modern times through movies such as Night of the Living Dead Figure 1-1 Figure 1-1 Zombies from Night of the Living Dead The zombies depicted in Night of the Living Dead are classic slow zombies Slow zombies shuffle around as if in a daze searching for human flesh to eat Interestingly the zombies in this movie are able to use tools breaking win dows with rocks and bashing doors with hefty sticks Most zombies lose this skill in later film and TV depictions The portrayal of slow zombies may have reached its cultural zenith with the hit TV show The Walking Dead 6 Chapter 1