StarDestroyer.Net BBS

http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml





I want one.

These guys have a bright future in prop design. That's amazing.

That is fucking awesome. I want one.

There's something always unnaturally awesome about steampunk accessories like this.

Too bad the guy doesn't do commissions. I want an entire steampunk computer and steampunk accessories...

Way cool. The link is disabled as I am at work. How much did those cost to build?

I want one badly.. I'd also love to see what they could do to a computer chell.

The same guy also did a steampunk mod for an IBM Model M keyboard and built a USB brass telegraph sounder that clacks out RSS feeds in morse code. They are possibly the coolest things ever and make me wish I had a workshop of some sort.





Full how-to guides on making them here.

Nuclear Airships?! When did this get approved?

I want.

Screw that. I need.

I don't get it. It's a wooden and brass enclosure for an LCD panel. So what? haven't you guys ever taken an LCD apart? Get out a router and make your own! Nice accessories, though.

Stark wrote:I don't get it. It's a wooden and brass enclosure for an LCD panel. So what? haven't you guys ever taken an LCD apart? Get out a router and make your own! Nice accessories, though.

SILENCE! YOU DO NOT MOCK THE SKILL OF........THIS GUY!

He's Stark. If he isn't vitriolic and derisive about everything, his fingers will atrophy.

That said, I hadn't connected "you can react dissolve metals in an electrolyte solution" to "you can etch metals without acid or industrial lasers". I'm going to go buy myself some copper plate tomorrow (after testing the process on a copper penny first) and see what I can accomplish.

Feil wrote:He's Stark. If he isn't vitriolic and derisive about everything, his fingers will atrophy.

Amusingly, that post was based on the images. Having looked at the website, he even grabbed the frame off a picture frame so you don't even need a router. Aside from making the metal insets and borrowing the wicked frame adjustment system, it's something absolutely anyone could do.

Unless 'remove plastic, spray metal' is beyond anyone? The keyboard is much more impressive technically: the most impressive parts of the monitor piece are the frame and button-levers.

Awsome.

I'm finding the guy's metal etching work to be way more interesting than his steampunk computer stuff (and of those the best is the RSS feed telegraph sounder, with the keyboard in second and the monitor in third place) to be honest.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I'm finding the guy's metal etching work to be way more interesting than his steampunk computer stuff (and of those the best is the RSS feed telegraph sounder, with the keyboard in second and the monitor in third place) to be honest.

The Morse RSS feed is *fucking awesome*. That's not just 'neat' and interesting, it's an application of technology that works. Not just reboxing an LCD panel, which is trivial by comparison.

Of course, you all diss metal until you notice how cool it is, hypocrites! That RSS feed morse-thing is fantastic, it'd be cool to attach one of those to those ancient stock market printer things.

The RSS feed would be more awesome if I didn't think it would be fucking annoying to hear it chattering all the time. I, too, am quite taken by his metal etching stuff. The computer remodeling is pretty, but it's no more impressive than any other custom keyboard, which people make all the time. The metal etching had me creating two-tone images in GIMP and experimenting with toner transfer methods before work this morning, and I'm going to run off and buy some copper sheet and copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate tomorrow.

Are you some kind of poser? You're gaga over 'steampunk lol', but you don't like the reality that impact printing=noise?

Rye wrote:Of course, you all diss metal until you notice how cool it is, hypocrites! That RSS feed morse-thing is fantastic, it'd be cool to attach one of those to those ancient stock market printer things.

Stock tickers, they're called.

And surprisingly, they're still made by some specialty outlets retailing to collectors, and I think there are some models that are built to be actually used to monitor the stock market (EDIT: Although they cost something like $30,000).

That *is* a stock ticker, basically. If you pointed it at a stockmarket RSS feed it'd be just like 1888. Hopelessly inefficient, but it beats putting a guy on a horse to go find out.

I want a full-fledged steampunk computer. I want gears turning in the side panel, dials on the outside, etc...

*ahem*

Oh, and we can't forget the mouse:

Geeze, you could kill someone with that mouse!

chitoryu12 wrote:Geeze, you could kill someone with that mouse!

That is precisely why it is awesome.