By Scott Bedford Amaze your kids by transforming two old toilet rolls and a few other recycled bits and bobs into a cool steampunk-inspired robot. Amaze them even further by balancing your robot on the edge of a ruler, table, shelf, or even your finger. And then triple amaze them by rotating the arms and […]
MAKE pal Aaron Ristau makes and sells these lovely wireless mice given the deluxe retro-robo-junk-art treatment. At $180 apiece, they’re a bit rich for my blood, but have inspired me to maybe try reskinning a peripheral or two of my own.
Creating faux glass eyeballs (that seem to follow you as you move) is very simple using actual eye images and glass bubble gems. These eyes can then be incorporated into a fabulous steampunk pendant that you… er… can’t look away from.
Instructables member saritamarianyc took a Mr. Potato Head, and with the aid of some Sculpey Premo, household junk, a hot glue gun, and some paints, completely steampunk-ified it. That monocle makes me giggle with glee every time I look at it. Want to see how she did it?
For eight days, David Malki’s Wondermark webcomic was turned into the Tinker’s Handbook, a loving send-up of MAKE and maker culture. He ended the “handbook” with this wonderful Maker’s Bill of Rights-like “codified set of the builder’s, crafter’s, maker’s rules. [via Boing Boing, by way of MAKE’s Laura Cochrane] Wondermark’s Nominally-Essential Tinker’s Handbook: The magazine […]
Hellenistic technology has always fascinated me, especially the work attributed to mathematician, engineer, and inventor Hero (or “Heron”) of Alexandria, one of the world’s first steampunks. Much of the documentation of his work (and likely those of many others of his time) come to us by way of The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (or […]
Chris Schaie just e-mailed me this picture of a recent commission. It’s a custom Nautilus-style submarine door that incorporates Chris’s familiar irising peephole as well as a new multiple bolt mechanism that locks and unlocks by turning the handwheel. Beautiful work, Chris!
