This is pretty Neat.(Steampunk LCD)

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2007-07-24 03:57pm

http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml

I want one.

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-07-24 04:06pm

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

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-07-24 04:08pm

That is fucking awesome. I want one.

Scottish Ninja · Post by **Scottish Ninja** » 2007-07-24 05:57pm

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...

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2007-07-24 08:05pm

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

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-07-25 05:25am

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

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2007-07-25 06:39am

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.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-07-26 01:12am

Nuclear Airships?! When did this get approved?

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-07-26 03:38am

I want.

Screw that. I need.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-26 03:43am

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.

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2007-07-26 03:07pm

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!

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-26 05:52pm

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.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-26 06:38pm

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.

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-07-26 06:41pm

Awsome.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-07-26 07:32pm

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.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-26 07:42pm

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.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-07-26 08:09pm

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.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-26 09:58pm

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.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-26 10:05pm

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

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-07-26 10:12pm

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).

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-26 10:15pm

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.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-07-26 11:28pm

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

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2007-07-27 12:59am

*ahem*

Oh, and we can't forget the mouse:

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2007-07-27 02:44am

Geeze, you could kill someone with that mouse!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-07-27 02:48am

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

That is precisely why it is awesome.