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

Dustyn Roberts

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DIY Guide to Mechanisms for Inventors & Artists.

"Making Things Move" is a perfect fit for anyone looking to learn about the mechanics of movement. The book explains non-technical concepts on how to create moving mechanisms, with simple to complex projects. It offers a comprehensive guide for selecting materials, designing and fabricating spur gears, bearings, couplers, screws, and springs. Projects, such as, designing a mousetrap car, creating customized gears or building an interactive rotating platform will help readers to hone their skills and understand the mechanics of movement better.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780071741675
Author: Dustyn Roberts
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Date of Publication: 2010-11-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Science
Related Topics: Crafts, Design, Engineering, Physics, Engineering, DIY, Robotics
Goodreads rating: 4.08
(rated by 258 readers)

Description

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 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 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 :Hands-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
 

DIY Guide to Mechanisms for Inventors & Artists.

"Making Things Move" is a perfect fit for anyone looking to learn about the mechanics of movement. The book explains non-technical concepts on how to create moving mechanisms, with simple to complex projects. It offers a comprehensive guide for selecting materials, designing and fabricating spur gears, bearings, couplers, screws, and springs. Projects, such as, designing a mousetrap car, creating customized gears or building an interactive rotating platform will help readers to hone their skills and understand the mechanics of movement better.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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