Justin and Michael come from vinyl listening parents. At some point in the last decade or so, they were pressed into dragging their folks’ record collection into the digital age. Between them, they have translated hundreds of records into computer friendly formats. Here are their tips on converting music. Justin is a great guitar player, […]
Silly, but nonetheless cool, steampunk telephone. The coolest thing is the punch cards you use to call a number. Okay, that’s also the silliest thing about it. As Apartment Therapy says, it would give new meaning to the term “calling card.” I hope one of those dials displays signal strength. Steampunk Cell Phone Takes Tech […]
Pixel-based typography from 1567 – On the death and 441-year life of the pixel via DF. The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by […]
How to make it & Science and Invention covers… absolutely stunning. But wait, there’s more! Electric Experimenter. Practical Electronics!
The ultimate gadget of 1930s – Jaeger LeCoultre Compass via NOTCOT. Is this real?
Beautifully designed prop documents in convenient .pdf form. Just download, customize the text, and print your own 1920s-style telegrams, ID cards, and more. These were created for live-action H.P. Lovecraft gamers, but anyone can enjoy them. Admittedly, this would have been nice to know about before Halloween, but I’ll bookmark it for next year. These […]
Meredith from the Steampunk Workshop hipped us to this strange objet d’art from a deviantArtist named Astalo, a Finnish blacksmith and jeweler. Of his piece, Astalo writes (translated from the Manglish): Weird steampunk-themed “hand mechanism” that I made from brass, silver, steel, leather and some parts of one old alarm clock. (like gears and spring, […]
