num_pages: 368
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
language: English
title: Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
publisher: McGraw Hill TAB