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 Making Things Move - DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
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Making Things Move
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Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists

by Dustyn Roberts

Learn to build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects

In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices.

Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project.

This unique resource emphasizes using off-the-shelf components, readily available materials, and accessible fabrication techniques.

Simple projects give you hands-on practice applying the skills covered in each chapter, and more complex projects at the end of the book incorporate topics from multiple chapters.

Turn your imaginative ideas into reality with help from this practical, inventive guide.
 

Discover how to:
  • Find and select materials
  • Fasten and join parts
  • Measure force, friction, and torque
  • Understand mechanical and electrical power, work, and energy
  • Create and control motion
  • Work with bearings, couplers, gears, screws, and springs
  • Combine simple machines for work and fun

Projects include:

  • Rube Goldberg breakfast machine
  • Mousetrap powered car
  • DIY motor with magnet wire
  • Motor direction and speed control
  • Designing and fabricating spur gears
  • Animated creations in paper
  • An interactive rotating platform
  • Small vertical axis wind turbine
  • SADbot: the seasonally affected drawing robot


C
ontents:

Introduction to Mechanisms and Machines

Materials: How to Choose and Where to Find Them

Screw It or Glue It: Fastening and Joining Parts

Forces, Friction and Torque (Oh My)

Mechanical and Electrical Power, Work, and Energy

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Motor: Options for Creating and Controlling Motion

The Guts: Bearings, Couplers, Gears, Screws, and Springs

Combining Simple Machines for Work and Fun

Making Things and Getting Things Made

10 Projects

Appendix: BreadBoard Power and Arduino Primer

Index

About the Author:

Dustyn Roberts is a mechanical engineer, teacher, author, and perpetual student. She founded a consultancy, Dustyn Robots (www.dustynrobots.com), and developed a course for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) called Mechanisms and Things That Move.

Dustyn holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Biomechanics from the University of Delaware, and is working on a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at NYU-Poly.

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