Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists Author: Dustyn Roberts | Language: English | ISBN:
B004E9SYHY | Format: EPUB
Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists Description
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.
- File Size: 5011 KB
- Print Length: 369 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (November 17, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004E9SYHY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,103 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Civil > Construction > Carpentry - #16
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Toymaking - #27
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Science > Experiments, Instruments & Measurement > Experiments & Projects
This book is a very fun and approachable book to getting started and excited about building/making things. I find this book is great for building the vocabulary needed to understand and build things. It's an easy read and is very digestible.
My biggest complaint is the disappointing electrical sections. The author spends effort trying to build intuition on mechanical devices; however this treatment stops when it comes to electrical design. The primary effort to give the reader intuition on circuits has a grotesque error (pg 102 fig 504) in the circuit diagram where the capacitor is misconnected (should be in parallel, not series!)
The author presents some basic equations such as ohms law, but does not provide examples on how it's used. A missed opportunity is when she explains diodes; instead she simply states a 220k resistor with 5V supply should be fine with most LEDs. The reader is lost what to do in any other situation.
While she provides detailed information on how to read mechanical data sheets for browsing McMaster; on the circuit side, all of this is missing on basic devices such as resistors, leds, transistors or capacitors. The reader will be completely lost attempting to browse the dizzying array of parts at digikey or mouser. The reader is pointed to canned solutions provided in the text with little intuition to expand or modify.
The author advocates the importance of sketching out mechanical diagrams, yet does not mention or even show any circuit schematics. Without understand how to read a schematic, it is difficult, if not impossible to communicate design and debug broken ones. Instead she attempts to communicate circuit diagrams with black and white pictures of bread boards...
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