IEEE Spectrum has a piece on steampunk, featuring our pals Jake von Slatt, Datamancer, and I-Wei Huang. Pictured to the left of Jake above is a project he’s doing for MAKE Volume 17. Can you guess what it is?
The desire to make things is an integral part of the steampunk movement. Drawing inspiration from fantastical works like Jules Verne’s Les Voyages Extraordinaires and H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, steampunk adherents embrace the do-it-yourself ethic, and they prize unique, intricate designs over disposable, bland creations.
“It’s part art and part just tinkering with stuff, trying to create something that no one has really tried to do before,” says I-Wei Huang, known as Crab Fu, an artist and animator based in Dixon, Calif., who has built a collection of steam-powered mechanical critters.
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That’s the prototype and it’s really a weakling compared to the final article!
If it’s the picture to left, that’d be a Wimshurst machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine
I can hardly wait to see what kind of style you crafted into the leyden jars!
>If it’s the picture to left, that’d be a Wimshurst machine.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine
You are correct, sir.
And I’ve seen the finished project and it is beyond beautiful. Herr von Slatt has outdone himself, as per usual.
The picture on the right is a telegraph clicker. Could be used to morse out RSS feeds.