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
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Contents:
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.
Softcover
368 Pages
Copyright 201
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