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Hi my name is Destin Roberts and I just wrote this book called, "Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists".

It grew out of the class I teach at NYU within the interactive telecommunications program called "Mechanisms in Things That Move".

It's a class that basically teaches engineering mechanics to artists since they don't have any technical background; most of them have never taken physics or calculus or all the engineering type classes and they learn how to make things move whether it's a rotating sculpture or a robotic plant; that's up to them and up to you as well.

So, we start off going through basic concepts and then get into things like what motors are and how to work with them, where to order them and there's hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations throughout the book to keep it friendly and understandable...and we go through everything from how things work to how to wire them up, where to buy the parts, and detailed step-by-step instructions for every project.

For example, this is a project towards the end of the book uhh... brings together a lot of components from different chapters called the "Wind Lateran". When the wind spins by catching the blades here, it turns a motor that's back here that creates electricity that lights up these LEDs.

All of these parts you can either buy off the shelf or online or get a laser cut for you from online services so you don't need to have a shop or a garage with a bunch of tools to get things done and uhh... photographs, color photographs and also videos are online on the website for the book "makingthingsmove.com"