Slides and links for a class I taught at Electric Sky 2025 and Electric SEA 2026.
Resources from near the end of the slides:
- Making Things Move – Great book covering more than just motors
- Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Components videos – Incredible resource for all kinds of artistic machine-making
- FUNdaMENTALs of Design – MIT engineering class. Superb.
- Jeremy Fielding’s videos – More in-depth motor basics
- MotionGen linkage simulator – design linkages
- Adafruit Robotics section – Thoroughly-documented project guides & motor control products for sale
- ServoCity – Expensive but high-quality, high-torque motors & motion components that are all compatible with each other like Legos.
- RoyMech Drive Components – Definitions/descriptions of different parts used in drive mechanisms. Lots of other useful stuff on this site.