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Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
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Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Dustyn Roberts

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In "Making Things Move," readers will learn how to build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from art installations to toys to labor-saving devices.

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Get Your Move On!

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

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TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.

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  • Title Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
  • Author Dustyn Roberts
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McGraw Hill Tab
  • Publication date 2010-12-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780071741675 / 0071741674
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 7.41 x 0.77 in (22.99 x 18.82 x 1.96 cm)
  • Category Computers - General Information
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010043141
  • Dewey Decimal Code 621.8

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2011, Page 388

About the author

Dustyn Roberts is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Delaware, where she helps build engineers. 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 and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2003), an MS in Biomechanics & Movement Science (2004) from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2014) from New York University.

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