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.