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

"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"--
An instructor from New York University explains mechanical design principles and applications to non-engineers through 16 do-it-yourself projects, from art installations to labor-saving devices, and features shopping lists and guides to the components for each project. Original.
An instructor from New York University explains mechanical design principles and applications to non-engineers through sixteen do-it-yourself projects, from art installations to labor-saving devices, and features shopping lists and guides to the components for each project.
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A unique guide to practical mechanical design principles and their applicationsIn Making Things Move, you’ll 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. The projects include a drawing machine, a mini wind turbine, a mobile robot, and more, but the applications of the examples are limited only by your imagination. A breadth of topics is covered ranging from how to attach couplers and shafts to a motor, to converting between rotary and linear motion. Each chapter features photographs, drawings, cross sections, and 3D models of the components and systems involved. Emphasis is placed on using off-the-shelf components whenever possible, and most projects also use readily available metals, plastics, wood, and cardboard, as well as accessible fabrication techniques such as laser cutting. Small projects in each chapter are designed to engage you in applying the material in the chapter at hand. Later in the book, more involved projects incorporate material from several chapters. Making Things Move:Focuses on practical applications and results, not abstract engineering theoriesContains more than a dozen topic-focused projects and four large-scale projects incorporating lessons from the whole bookFeatures shopping lists and guides to off-the-shelf components for the projectsIncorporates discussions of new fabrication techniques such as laser cutting and 3D printing, and how you can gain access Includes online component for continuing education with author’s websiteHands-on coverage of moving mechanismsIntroduction to Mechanisms and Machines; Materials and Where to Find Them; Screwed or Glued? On Fastening and Joining Parts; Forces, Friction and Torque (Oh My); Mechanical and Electrical Power, Work, and Energy; Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Motor? - Creating and Controlling Motion; The Guts: Bearings, Bushings. Couplers, and Gears; Rotary vs. Linear Motion; Automatons and Mechanical Toys; Making Things and Getting Them Made; Projects