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- Mod your computer keyboard, steampunk style
- Mild-mannered IT manager by day, mad modding genius by night, Jake von Slatt demonstrates how to build a computer keyboard -- steampunk style. by Cara Reynolds
- Tags: geekend, off topic, keyboard, mods, mod, steampunk, steampunk workshop, jake von slatt
- Image galleries 2008-03-18
- steampunk + Jack O'Lantern = SteamPumpkin
- I recommend SteamboyA Japanese anime story set in late Victorian England.In the same vein "Howl's moving Castle" by Miyazaki.Happy to help.JamesSteamy Pumpkinswe had a haloween party at an electronics company. With a pumpkin contest. Some of the electrical engineers did a pumpkin with a dildo for a tounge...
- Tags: JamesRL
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
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- Pics: steampunk Star Wars action figures
- So long as we're on the subject of steampunk remixes of favorite geek objects, lets cut right to the critical mass of Jules Verne-inspired uber-dorkdom: Steampunk Star Wars action figures. All that's missing is a homebrew playset of this steampunk Death Star. Click the image for...
- Tags: Star Wars, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Old-school craftsmanship meets modern technology in the steampunk Workshop
- IT manager Jake von Slatt has always had a passion for old tech. In an interview with Bostodelphia last month, he explained: "Part of the reason...is its accessibility to the tinkerer. 19th-century tech can be recreated with tools you can own or...
- Tags: Passion, Keyboards, Sales Tools, Web Site Development, Productivity, Semiconductors, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales, Internet, Cara Reynolds
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Video: steampunk + Star Trek = Steam Trek
- Behold, Steam Trek: The Moving Picture, a hilarious send-up of both Star Trek and steampunk tropes rendered as a gleefully tongue-in-cheek silent movie. Complete with a harpsichord rendition of the Trek theme. Enjoy, good sirs and ladies. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Video, Star Trek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Build your own steampunk keyboard
- Found via Gizmodo: Convert a standard IBM keyboard into a marvel of steampunk tech with these simple project instructions. You'll need a pretty serious home workshop setup to farbicate some of the parts, but if you've got the time, materials, and no fear of a plumber's torch, this functional little...
- Tags: Keyboard, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- steampunk + Jack O'Lantern = SteamPumpkin
- For those that don't know it, steampunk is a subgenre of sci-fi/fantasy that deals with impossible Jules Verne-esque mechanisms and wild proto-Tesla technologies. To the left you will see one possible example of a steampunk jack-o-lantern, only without the requisite clattering boiler-powered movements and War of the Worlds-style heat...
- Tags: Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Pics: The ultimate liquid-cooled PCs
- A couple of weeks ago, Wired ran a photo gallery of some impressively modified PCs with some brazenly advanced and artistic liquid cooling systems. I was very impressed, until I saw this water-cooled steampunk standard-bearer, which looks like a desktop PC straight out of a Jules...
- Tags: PC, Photograph, Desktops, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Behold, a steampunk Death Star
- Reason #4,752 why John Denardo's SFSignal is in a Lazarus-versus-Lazarus deathmatch with John Scalzi's Whatever for the title of My Favorite Blog: A Steampunk Death Star! To quote: "This enormous Imperial space station, the size of a small moon or asteroid, is in fact an immense analytic...
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Build your own steampunk keyboard
- PROTOTYPINGYou would need a tool shop for this one.Did you ever try to drill holes in metal?Exact placement is really difficult.Cost?I would say $10,000.
- Tags: BALTHOR, prototyping, off-topic, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Video: steampunk + Star Trek = Steam Trek
- TimelessBoy the original pilot episode just doesn't hold up all that well does it? ;)
- Tags: Mark W. Kaelin, Star Trek, video
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Behold, a steampunk Death Star
- Thanks for the hat-tip!Thanks for the kind words and hat-tip.If we had only one tenth of Whatever's traffic, I'd be a happy man.
- Tags: John D.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- PC Mods: Making a steampunk Mini ITX Laptop
- PC Mods are the stuff of dreams for many computer fanboys. We've seen all types - from characters to spaceships - to fishtanks. But Mr. Torquil Harkness had a trick up his sleeve. Take a PC with a mini ITX board and turn it in to a steam-punk-esque laptop PC....
- Tags: photo galleries, pc mod, case mod, off topic
- Image galleries 2008-04-01
- 25 more words every sci-fi fan should know
- Based on the wildly positive feedback from 75 words every sci-fi fan should know, we bring you an additional 25 more words every sci-fi fan should know. There, now you have your even 100. alternate history (n.) ansible (n.) Big Dumb Object (n.) con...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- The MIT water computer--see ya, electrons!
- For a lab project, this MIT student created a primitive computer that uses the flow of water, rather than electrons, to power its Boolean circuitry. I suddenly have all kinds of ideas for some steampunk science fiction. Granted, the guy had to use a an acrylic laser cutter to get...
- Tags: Electron, Circuit Board, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Laser, Computer, Productivity, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Video: Ultimate hacker pumpkin patch
- You've seen all those nutty holiday videos of computer-coordinated, musically accompanied Christmas lights that draw crowds, amaze YouTube viewers, and earn the murderous ire of whoever lives next to these overzealous illuminational nutjobs? Yeah, well, the fever has spread to Halloween. Check it out--the ultimate hacker pumpkin patch, complete with...
- Tags: Video, Hacker, Corporate Communications, Hacking, Security, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Video: Star Wars vs. ... Gangsta Rap, Samurai, and Charlie Brown
- SFX Magazine's "Top 10 Star Wars Spoofs." from SFSignal Submitted for your enjoyment is #2 from that list: The Star Wars Gangsta Rap...complete with a Flash-animated video which is flat-out hilarious. (OG Yoda is the star of this show, though watching Vader throw out 'Dark Siiide' gang signs is pretty...
- Tags: Star Wars, Video, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
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