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Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by unwind »

piotrrojek wrote: post #2

Am I missing something? It doesn't seem like this book is available online to read, just TOS and link to Amazon to buy paperback version.

Also it seems to be from 2015, which makes it almost more strange to post (especially without tagging the year).

Perhaps it is just being ackowledged as a time-less epic classic, I don't know.

Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by pca006132 »

unwind wrote: post #3
piotrrojek wrote: post #2

Am I missing something? It doesn't seem like this book is available online to read, just TOS and link to Amazon to buy paperback version.

Also it seems to be from 2015, which makes it almost more strange to post (especially without tagging the year). Perhaps it is just being ackowledged as a time-less epic classic, I don't know.

Doesn't seem so, classics will probably not have dedicated chapters for showing how to control motors with Arduino and such. I think it is nice to know the differences between different motors, but I would rather read an article about this instead of buying a book.

Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by pitched »

The second Google result for this book is a chapter preview from the publisher: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780134032832/samplep...

The first result is entire PDF though. I remember back in the old days being a poor student trying to save money spending hours trying to find scans of texts (or making scans in the library). Now it’s the first result in Google! Here’s hoping none of us need to make money through writing…

Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by qwertox »

piotrrojek wrote: post #2

Am I missing something? It doesn't seem like this book is available online to read, just TOS and link to Amazon to buy paperback version.

Felt like an ad, even though I could imagine that someone would want to post this out of normal interest.

Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by boredemployee »

pitched wrote: post #5

The second Google result for this book is a chapter preview from the publisher: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780134032832/samplep... The first result is entire PDF though. I remember back in the old days being a poor student trying to save money spending hours trying to find scans of texts (or making scans in the library). Now it’s the first result in Google! Here’s hoping none of us need to make money thr…

man back in my college days (2006-2012), it was a pain in the ass to have books (materials science) and find stuff online. anyway, i was known as "the king of pdfs". because i always knew how to search things. but now the game is in a whole another level and my fame would fall into oblivion!

Re: Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (2015)

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Post by mbustamanter »

boredemployee wrote: post #8
pitched wrote: post #5

The second Google result for this book is a chapter preview from the publisher: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780134032832/samplep... The first result is entire PDF though. I remember back in the old days being a poor student trying to save money spending hours trying to find scans of texts (or making scans in the library). Now it’s the first result in Google! Here’s hoping none of us need to make money thr…

man back in my college days (2006-2012), it was a pain in the ass to have books (materials science) and find stuff online. anyway, i was known as "the king of pdfs". because i always knew how to search things. but now the game is in a whole another level and my fame would fall into oblivion!

My trick was searching +"index of" on Google or something like that, I could find all sorts of books that way. What were your tricks?
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