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ROMFA and Kinetic Art Resource Guide
(update in progress July 2007)
This is a list of resources compiled to help the kinetic/electronic artist do their thing. It is by no means complete, but it is pretty extensive, and new things are added when we find them. Ask us about any particular one, or ask where you might find something you need that isn't listed here…chances are we'll have a resource.
BOOKS
(generally in the order in which they were entered on the page)
| TITLE |
AUTHOR |
ISBN |
|
PUBLISHER |
|
The Inventor's Handbook
|
Belinda Recio
|
1561384593
|
1994
|
Boston Museum of Science
|
BUY
|
507 mechanical Movements
|
Henry T. Brown
|
0917914252
|
1984
|
Lindsay Publications
|
BUY
|
Cabaret Mechanical Movement
|
Onn and Alexander
|
0952872900
|
1998
|
Cabaret Mechanical Theater
|
BUY
|
Electric Motors and Mechanical Devices for Hobbyists and Engineers
|
Bill Davies
|
0968183018
|
1997
|
WERD Technology, Inc.
|
BUY
|
The How and Why of Mechanical Movements
|
Harry Walton
|
|
1968
|
Popular Science Publishing Company, Inc.
|
BUY
|
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
|
Nicholas P Chironis and Neil Sclater
|
0070113564
|
1996
|
McGraw Hill
|
BUY
|
Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components
|
Robert O Parmley
|
0070486174
|
2000
|
McGraw Hill
|
BUY
|
Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors - Four volumes
|
Franklin D. Jones, et al.
|
0831110-295,309,317,325
|
1930
|
Industrial Press, Inc
|
BUY
|
How Things Work, 4 volumes (Volume 3 especially)
|
Roger Jean Ségalat
|
|
|
Bibliographisches Institut and Simon & Schuster, Inc.
|
BUY
|
|
Amamzing Machines
|
Keith Good
|
0237519860
|
1999
|
Evans Brohters Limited
|
BUY
|
|
Practical Electronics For Inventors (NOTE - there is a new edition of this book as of 2006 - the copies marked 2000 are the first edition)
|
Paul Scherz
|
0070580782
|
2000
|
McGraw Hill
|
BUY
|
|
Kinematics And Linkage Design
|
Allen S. Hall Jr.
|
|
1966
|
Balt Publishers
|
BUY
|
|
Tools And Their Uses
|
U.S. Navy
|
0486220222
|
1973
|
Dover
|
BUY
|
|
Basic Machines And How They Work
|
U.S. Navy
|
0486217094
|
1994
|
Dover
|
BUY
|
|
Machines
|
Janice VanCleave
|
0471571083
|
1993
|
Wiley
|
BUY
|
|
How Things Work - The Physics Of Everyday Life
|
Louis A. Bloomfield
|
0471594733
|
1997
|
Wiley
|
BUY
|
|
Inventing Stuff
|
Ed Sobey
|
0866519378
|
1996
|
Dale Seymour Publications
|
BUY
|
|
Basic Electronics
|
U.S. Navy
|
0486210766
|
1980
|
Dover
|
BUY
|
|
Basic Electricity
|
U.S. Navy
|
0486209733
|
1970
|
Dover
|
BUY
|
|
How It Works Illustrated
|
Rudolf Graf and George Whalen
|
0060115890
|
1974
|
Popular Science
|
BUY
|
|
Robots, Androids, and Animatrons
|
John Iovine
|
0070328048
|
1998
|
McGraw-Hill
|
BUY
|
|
Gizmos and Gadgets
|
Jill Frankel Hauser
|
1885593260
|
1999
|
Williamson Publishing Company
|
BUY
|
| A Manual of Mechanical Movements |
W. M. Clark |
|
1943 |
Garden City Publishing |
BUY |
| The Engineer's Sketchbook |
Thomas Walter Barber |
|
1940 |
Chemical Publishing Company |
BUY |
| 970 Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction |
Gardner D. Hiscox |
1894572378 |
2001 |
Algrove Publishing |
BUY |
| Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices |
Gardner D. Hiscox |
|
1927 |
Norman W. Henley Publishing |
BUY |
While some of these books are out of print, They are usually available for purchase, used, online.
A very good source for finding any used and/or out of print book is Bookfinder.com.
Where possible, the "BUY" link above will take you to a bookfinder.com search.
Another great source for books on electronics and mechanics is RobotBooks.com.
| Catalogs, Parts Sources |
|
| McMaster-Carr - The grand-daddy of supply houses. There isn't much made that they don't carry. You can often beat their price, but rarely their selection. |
McMaster-Carr |
| Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instruments - excellent supplier for gears, chains, sprockets, couplings, and such. Their set of catalogs is free, and is a wonderful set of resource books. Their prices are pretty good for a lot of their stock, especially as far as new stuff goes. |
SDP/SI |
| SECS - Another supplier like SDP/SI. I have never ordered from them so I don't know about their prices. |
SECS |
| Thomas Register - Power Transmission Couplings - a list of companies who sell power transmission products. |
Couplings-EZ |
| Grainger - a national supplier of electrical, electromechanical, and industrial parts. |
Grainger |
| Reid Tool - Handles, knobs, levers, feet, clamps, fittings, fasteners |
Reid Tool |
|
Jameco - Fantastic supplier of electronic and electromechanical supplies.
|
Jameco |
| All Electronics - Another fantastic supplier. More of a surplus house, although a good many of their products are always available. |
All Electronics |
| Metal Spermarkets - Supplier of metals in small quantities. Very artist friendly. |
Metal Supermarkets |
| Herbach & Rademan - I can hardly describe this place...just go to the site...but set a hard spending limit before clicking the link because you'll want to buy two of everything. I'm not kidding. |
Herbach and Rademan |
| Parallax, Inc - the folks who brought us the Basic Stamp series of microcontrollers. They carry a lot of other great stuff as well. |
Parallax |
| Weird Stuff - Surplus house in Sunnyvale, California. Well worth a visit when in the area. |
Weirdstuff |
| Halted Specialties - Another great supplier in the South Bay. More geared towards electronic components than Weird Stuff. |
HSC - Halted Specialties/ |
| Mondotronics Robot Store - Great resourcee for robotic books, kits, parts, supplies, art, etc. And we all know robot parts can be put to great use in kinetic art! |
Mondotronics Robot Store |
| Michael's Arts & Crafts - All over the place |
Michael's Arts & Crafts |
| Mike Quinn Electronics-401 McCormick St, San Leandro, CA - Chaos reigns at Quinn's, but we wouldn't have it any other way! |
510-569-1539 |
| ALCO - San Leandro, New and used metals of all types, shapes, and sizes |
510-562-1107 |
| OSH -Orchard Supply Hardware - All over California - well stocked chain of hardware stores |
OSH |
| Home Depot - All over everywhere |
Home Depot |
| Kelvin - They only sell to teachers and schools, but if you are (or know) one of those, this is an awesome catalog. |
Kelvin |
| Outwater Plastics - A new supplier for the KW resource list, and another fantastic catalog. Hard to find plastic parts, fittings, lighting supplies, architectural plastics, moldings, etc. |
Outwater Plastics |
RANDOM WEBSITES...and what not...
Good site on simple machines with very short blurb on levers...worth looking at for its quiz
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/machines/sciber/intro.htm
http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/dm-delightful-machines.html
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rapidproto/mechanisms/tablecontents.html
A site by NASA which has a lot of experiments you can do to learn about levers
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Summer_Training/KaeAvenueES/lever.html
Good basic info on levers, and the three classes of levers
http://www.atlans.org/elements/machine/pg02.html
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