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A distinguishable 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. The projects include a drawing machine, a mini wind turbine, a mousetrap powered car, and more, but the apps of the examples are fixed only by your imagination. A breadth of topics is covered ranging from how to attach couplers and shafts to a motor, to converting amongst rotary and linear motion.
Each chapter features photographs, drawings, and screenshots of the elements and schemes involved. Emphasis is placed on using off-the-shelf elements whenever possible, and most projects likewise use readily available metals, plastics, wood, and cardboard, as well as accessible fabrication proficiencies 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 comprise material from various chapters.
Making Things Move:
- Focuses on practical apps and results, not abstract engineering science theories
- Contains more than a dozen topic-focused projects and three large-scale projects incorporating lessons from the whole book
- Features buying goods lists and guides to off-the-shelf parts for the projects
- Incorporates discussions of new fabrication proficiencies such as laser cutting and 3D printing, and how you may gain access
- Includes online element for continuing education with the book’s associate website and blog (makingthingsmove.com)
Hands-on coverage of moving mechanisms
Introduction 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
About the AuthorDustyn Roberts is a traditionally trained engineer with non-traditional ideas regarding how engineering science may be taught. She started her career at Honeybee Robotics as an engineer on the Sample Manipulation System project for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled for launch in 2011. In 2006 she founded Dustyn Robots after consulting for two artists for the duration of their residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in NYC. She continued consulting projects for students and artists while working full time at Honeybee, and finally moved to consulting full time on projects ranging from gait analysis to designing guided parachute systems. In 2007, she invented a course for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program called Mechanisms and Things That Move that led to the book you see here. She also participated in the pilot of Battle of the Geeks where her team designed and launched a rocket all over a canyon in Africa, and has attracted media attention by Time Out New York, IEEE Spectrum, and local organizations. Dustyn holds a BS in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Robotics and Business, an MS in Biomechanics & Movement Science from the University of Delaware, and is presently working on a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. She presently lives in New York City with her partner, Lorena, and cat, Simba.
Most helpful customer reviews
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
 Great book!
By M. Petit
As a paper engineer and artist with some electronic experience, I have found that learning about gears, pulleys, motors, and the actual mechanics of getting things to move somewhat daunting. There are basic books geared towards beginners as well as books filled with inspiring complex examples that are impossible to navigate unless you already have a high level of expertise. This book is the book I’ve been looking for. It is really useful and very comprehensive in its approach and scope. It starts with the basics, but, takes you through a wide array of materials, techniques, and examples. Its section on motors (and arduino control) is great. I think its a fantastic book for students and individuals with varying skills, experience, and interests. Highly recommend it.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic Presentation
By John M
I’m sure the way you respond to this book will depend heavily on your experience level as a mechanical and electronics tinkerer. I happen to be right in the bullseye of the author’s target audience: this book is perfect for where I am in my informal education in those areas. My favorite part is that Ms. Roberts makes specific recommendations for tools and for parts and materials sources. The information is presented in a very logical order. It is intentionally not too deep – just the bare essentials to get you started experimenting. But with plenty of information about how to go further. If you want to learn how to build machines that move, this is a great place to start.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
perfect book for student designers
By moreecstatic
I have been waiting for this book! I teach product design at a local university, and my students often have questions that I can’t answer about topics discussed in Making Things Move. The language here is perfectly suited for this purpose, the information is very clear and the example projects are nicely explained and documented. The hand sketches are great, because they capture the excitement of making things, and put one in the mood to start sketching and inventing! Thanks to this author for producing a needed book that will help many non-professional people as they try their hand at mechanical design and robotics.
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