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Animatronics: Guide to Holiday Displays
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Author: Edwin Wise
- Publisher: Prompt (DPI - 8/01)
- Release Date: August 2000
- ISBN-10: 0790612194
- ISBN-13: 9780790612195
- List Price: $62.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAuthor Edwin Wise takes the reader inside his world of robotics in an innovative guide to designing, developing, and building animated displays centered around the holidays of Halloween and Christmas. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Overpriced
Rating:
At $39.32, which I paid for this book, it cost more than twice as much as it is worth. This is part of the Amazon effect, if I would have been able to pickup this book and inspect it in person I wouldn't have bought it even at $20.00.
Way advanced!
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I'm still reading this one because some of the concepts are a little advanced for me. Lots of info and great ideas. I would not recomend this one for beginners. Try some stuff with radio controlled cars first before attempting some of these projects.
Must have book for mechanical prop makers!
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First of all, if you are looking for specific plans (ie. diagrams, blueprints, supply list, detailed photos of finished prop) then you might be disappointed with this book.
The purpose of this book is to give you the basic knowledge (some math required) to create any mechanical prop that YOU envision. The author tells you how to make things move their arms, or jump up, or spin around, etc. Then, you decide what that thing should be made of (wood, metal or PVC), how big the thing should be, what the thing should do and what the thing should look like. The author also deals with both electric and pnuematic motors and types of sensors so you don't have to hide in the bushes and trigger your props.
My only complaint is that the author doesn't give you any hints on how to cover your mechanical skeleton. The author leaves the creative part totally up to you but a few basic pointers would have been helpful.
Decent but not a practical guide.
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The author gives you lots of information but mostly from a mathematical perspective. He clearly enjoys the math - I do not.
He focuses a lot on electrical motors and I was more interested in pneumatic controls. I was looking for some real world prop designs that I could implement. Instead what I got was a LOT of mathematical equations - most of which the average prop designer is never going to use.
The handbooks from [...] are much more useful in my opinion.
Animatronics: Guide to Holiday displays
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This book is very informative. Anyone not familiar with the mechanics of animatronics, can learn a lot from the information compiled inside. This was well worth the investment.
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