title: Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
author:  Dustyn Roberts 
description: <b>Dustyn Roberts</b> is a traditionally trained engineer with non-traditional ideas about how engineering can be taught. <span></span>She started her career at Honeybee Robotics as an engineer on the Sample Manipulation System project for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled for launch in 2011.<span> </span>In 2006 she founded Dustyn Robots after consulting for two artists during their residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in NYC.<span> </span>She continued consulting projects for students and artists while working full time at Honeybee, and eventually moved to consulting full time on projects ranging from gait analysis to designing guided parachute systems.<span> </span>In 2007, she developed a course for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program called <i>Mechanisms and Things That Move</i> that led to the book you see here.<span> </span>She also participated in the pilot of Battle of the Geeks where her team designed and launched a rocket across a canyon in Africa, and has attracted media attention by Time Out New York, IEEE Spectrum, and local organizations. <span> </span><span></span><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Dustyn holds a BS in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Robotics and Business, an MS in Biomechanics &amp; Movement Science from the University of Delaware, and is currently working on a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.<span> </span><span></span>She currently lives in New York City with her partner, Lorena, and cat, Simba.</span>
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  # **Making Things Move**
  
  
  **DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists**
  
  
  **Dustyn Roberts**
  
  
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  ISBN: 978-0-07-174168-2  
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