Free Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists

Author: Dustyn Roberts
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0071741674
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
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Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists

A unique guide to practical mechanical design principles and their applications
In 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. Search and download computer ebooks Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists for free.
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.. Download Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists computer ebooks
The projects include a drawing machine, a mini wind turbine, a mousetrap powered car, 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, and screenshots of the components and systems involved. Emphasis is placed on using off-the-shelf

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

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

author dustyn roberts format paperback language english publication year 01 11 2000 subject leisure lifestyle subject 2 hobbies pastimes indoor games themonsterbookshop co uk in titles description add my store to your favorites and receive my email newsletters about new items and special promotions general interest making things move diy mechanisms for inventors hobbyists and artists item details title making things move diy mechanisms for inventors hobbyists and artists author s dustyn roberts

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.

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

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Emphasis is placed on using off-the-shelf