Simple Machines Made Simple (pre-order)

This is a pre-order for the book which is currently expected to ship in February 2026.

If you find yourself saying, "Okay, I understand OR, XOR, and Multiplexing. But what does that have to do with me, a common pulley operator?"

Then this is the book for you.

Simple Machines Made Simple is a board book starring the six simple machines in demo form. 

• Wheel
• Lever
• Pulley
• Inclined plane
• Wedge
• Screw

And like previous books, you can fight with your kids over who gets to go first.

Who is this for?

I'm embarrassed to admit that my kids, despite half of them having completed second grade, cannot recite any of Newton's laws or calculate a simple spring constant (I promise, I'm a decent parent in other ways). And this book won't help teach any of that either. But it will give your little ones a bit of intuition for mechanical advantage, and eventually when they get their first job working at NVIDIA, they'll come home and screw their first paycheck to the refrigerator. 

This is for kids (and adults) who like to play, build, disassemble, launch crab apples, or just learn how things work.

But this isn't computer engineering...

I hear you saying, "We don't typically fraternize with non-ECEn folk." But hear me out. It's 2025. Our kids are going to hear about this stuff from their friends, or they can hear it from us. They're going to have a much more grounded sense of reality if we introduce the subject of mechanics in a safe environment, than if we just let them stumble upon this stuff out on their own.