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I'm delighted to announce that the Levers eBook is now available on the website. Thank you for all the support and feedback I've had while I've been putting this together, it is really appreciated!
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Completed the art work for the second and third order lever pages today. Looks good though I say so myself!
I've printed out the parts and will be doing the assembly photographs in the morning. I'll then be able to complete the instructions. The final part wil be a couple of pages of extra information about levers and how they work within paper animations. Should be a nice little ebook!
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I've completed the working parts for the second order lever and third order lever pages. I'll be adding colour and facts onto them next. I'm pleased with these, I think they're coming out well!
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One of the delights of my job is the feedback - I love to see how people have taken models and downloads and developed them into their own projects.
I was sent these picture taken by Megan Hitchens and daughter Jessica of the Space Cow they created using one of the starting projects from Cardboard Engineering Source Book. Isn't it fantastic! It comes complete with jet pack, space helmet and even the air hose from the back pack to the helmet.
I love it!
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The Levers ebook that I'm working on is slowly taking shape. There will be some pull-the-tab moving pictures showing the principles of levers as well as information, some models to make and a bit about applying this knowledge to designing your own models.
I've been working on the page for the 1st order lever. That's a lever where the pivot point is in the middle between the force and the load, like a see-saw.
I've had fun making the arrows stay upright as the lever rocks, currently I'm using a slot to run the arrow in but this may change as the model is refined.
Notice the text in the page layout, I've used a temporary place holder, I'll be adding more diagrams and proper explanatory text later on. For the moment I have used the standard place holder text that has been used by printers since the 1500s. When printers and designers want to see how a page will look before they have the finished words they use the Lorem ipsum text. I used lipsum.com to generate a paragraph for me. The idea is that the lengths of the words, the mix of descenders and ascenders and the lengths of paragraphs give a page that looks just like normal text.
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Thanks to everyone who has bought a Cardboard Engineering Source Book, I've been delighted with the amount of interest I've had. Thanks you! I'm planning on doing more eBooks soon. The next one will be a book on levers and linkages with perhaps four or five working models and an explaination on how you can use these mechanisms in your models. I also have vague plans to do another along the lines of the section I did on model development but with a little more detail. Has anyone got anything else they'd like to see?
Don't worry though, dear subscriber, my next project is going to be another exclusive subscriber model.
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“a huge boost to mechanisms work in schools”
Times Educational Supplement.
A 55 page ebook aimed at people who teach and people who want to learn!
The book centres around ten extendable cardboard engineering projects which introduce many mechanisms, from simple cams to crank sliders and swash plate.
Ten Projects
* Single Cam
* Rocking Platform
* Multi Cam
* Crank Slider
* Double Crank Slider
* Single Twister (shown above)
* Double Twister
* Swash Plate
* Snap Up Cube
* Snap Up Octohedron
Each project comprises fully illustrated clear instructions, printable pages of all the parts needed to make a complete animated model and a page of ideas to extend the project. Simply print the pages onto thin card and away you go!
As well as the ten projects the book also includes the following sections
• the mathematics of mechanisms
• tips for construction
• alternative parts to extend the models
• web links
• glossary of terms
• detailed lessons plans
The price of £19.95 includes a licence for the purchaser to make unlimited copies of the model parts for their own use.
Ten projects, endless possibilities!
The printed version of this book is available on sister site flying-pig.co.uk
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