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