Roman Multitool from 3rd Century CE
I see a knife, a fork, and a spoon. Plus some other implements about which I don’t really care to speculate. No flash drive, though. More deets over at The Fitzwilliam Museum. [via Neatorama]
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Chumbophone – antiqued Chumby Guts
Etsy member AbrahamBook has been bitten by the Chumby Guts bug. He’s converted several ancient objects into modern wifi-enabled chumtainment devices. I asked him about what he was aiming for in this latest piece:
My Chumby creation started with an original Chumby although I have produced three similar devices from the Chumby Guts kit. I much prefer producing my devices with the Chumby Guts kit as it is always a messier build when having to undo a stock Chumby configuration. On the occasion that I set out to create the “Chumbaphone” I had used all of my “Guts” kits and Maker Shed had since run dry
Handmade Vintage Dress Form
Handmade clothes are one thing. A handmade dress reminds us that DIY hasn’t always been a lifestyle, it used to be just life! I found this treasure at my local junk store. This vintage piece is almost more art than function at this point. I love all the worn details: the bent and rusted metal […]
Brand new antique humanoids
According to a piece on BotJunkie (translating a piece on Japan’s Robot Watch), a small army of vacuum tube robots from the 50s and 60s, built by Aizawa Zirou, have been unearthed in a warehouse, many of them apparently brand new. I love the Google translation: “Were sleeping in a warehouse until it’s released by […]
Difference Engine maintenance manual
[Image: Creative Commons Attribution photo from Adactio’s Flickr stream] Do you have a Babbage Difference Engine in dire need of servicing? Fret no more! Reg Crick of the London Science Museum has put together this handy “INSTRUCTION MANUAL to Operate and Maintain Charles Babbage’s 2nd Difference Engine,” written in 1991 to help keep the Engine […]
Let General Secretary Stalin’s glowing head light your home
This is some lost technology we can keep there — Soviet light bulbs from 1935 with Joseph Stalin’s silhouette as the glower. Too bad it didn’t cast a Great and Powerful Oz-like ominous head on the walls. First Soviet Bulb
Uniselector clock of unknown origins
Mike is looking for info regarding an unusual timekeeping device he came across – At present I have no documentation for this clock, and it has no markings other than the labels for the controls and external connections, such as “LPS OFF”, meaning lamps off, “RESET”, meaning set the time, etc. Internally it is evidently […]
