This is pretty Neat.(Steampunk LCD)

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2007-07-27 03:06am

This is a bit OT, but your sig is incorrect, chitoryu. The most aerodynamic thing you can throw into a recycling bin is, in fact, a paper airplane.

We now return to your regularly scheduled steampunk-y goodness:

Okay, so it's not really steampunk, but it does look Victorian-era, at least. Stained glass FTW!.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2007-07-27 03:55am

Found a front view of the Telecalculograph (the first PC mod I posted), as well as a flatbed scanner mod dubbed "The Opti-Transcripticon":

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2007-07-27 03:57am

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2007-07-27 09:25am

Executor32 wrote:Opti-Transcripticon

That beats 'flatbed scanner' every day of the week.

I also love the steampunk stratocaster from the OP's linky.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-07-27 01:20pm

Can we get this moved to the Arts forum? I'd hate to see this locked at post 50

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-27 05:55pm

Now, what is it that makes these "steampunk"? I see no steam, and I see no punk....

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-07-27 05:58pm

"Steampunk" is a rather silly term appropriated from "cyberpunk" (which itself is often frequently misapplied) used to describe fictional technology evocative of the 19th Century that is very Jules Vernian and fantastic Victorian.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-27 08:02pm

Is Jules Verne steampunk?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-27 08:08pm

Feil wrote:Is Jules Verne steampunk?

If you ask steampunk idiots, yes. As Spanky says it's a largely useless term that includes pretty much anything that 'looks old' and 'is advanced'. Everything from mechanical computers to coal-fired spaceships.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-07-27 08:41pm

How does steampunk differ from "retro-futuristic"? Is it as meaningful as the difference between brutal death metal and blackened death metal and black metal?

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-27 08:56pm

Stark wrote:coal-fired spaceships.

Flying mechanical sharkfucking undead bunny rabbit Jesus from Hell, people actually use this concept?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-07-27 09:01pm

Feil wrote:
Stark wrote:coal-fired spaceships.
Flying mechanical sharkfucking undead bunny rabbit Jesus from Hell, people actually use this concept?

Google "Spelljammer".

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-07-27 09:06pm

Ignore the rust.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-07-27 09:16pm

I was actually thinking of making a steampunk metal band when I saw this thread. I was thinking of braiding my hair and putting loads of copper tubing on the braids, guitars like that jackson, nice copper looking drumkit with pipes attached to a smoke machine, similar keyboard, one of those boxy 50s microphones with a copper paintjob. Get one of those morse code things to trigger samples, it'd rule!

I think fishnets and industrial goggles and stuff would work fairly well here, maybe mixed up with some victorian-looking gothy lacy clothes. Hmmm, I might try and draw this at some point.

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-07-27 10:40pm

General Zod wrote:
Feil wrote:
Stark wrote:coal-fired spaceships.
Flying mechanical sharkfucking undead bunny rabbit Jesus from Hell, people actually use this concept?
Google "Spelljammer".

Only the Gnome ships in Spelljammer are steampunk, and they're only there for comic relief. The only other ships that burn coal are the dwarven ones, and that's to power magical forges that translate the psychic energy of working dwarves into motion somehow. The setting just barely has cannons and flintlock pistols (which are horribly primitive and unreliable), it is more 'renaissance era' than steampunk.

'Steampunk' is a useful descriptive term. However 'clockpunk' is not (and yes I have seen that in the wild to describe renaissance-ish more-technology-than-they-historically-had fiction).

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-07-27 11:03pm

By virtue of me being a huge fan of the style commonly called 'Steampunk', this thread is promoted to Arts. Why? Because that's art.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-07-28 12:27am

I made a bookmark. A steampunk bookmark. If I ever needed to fight my way through a thousand guards armed to the teeth, I could put an edge on it by scraping it on the cement floor of my cell and shank people with it, that's how steampunk it is. It also has the Inquisitorial I on it, because the toner transfer of a complicated design like the aquila was not of the easy.

Abe for scale.

Need to work out how to eliminate the pitting. Hope it's because I had excess salt in my saturated salt solution, since that's the first thing I'm going to try changing tomorrow.

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-07-28 02:19am

Stark wrote:
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? :lol: The keyboard is much more impressive technically: the most impressive parts of the monitor piece are the frame and button-levers.

That's what I was referring to. I want the entire setup. And with a mock computer consisting of flywheels, tiny meshed gears and vacuum tubes.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-07-28 03:00am

My brother and I are big steampunk fans, in fact last Christmas I commissioned for him a Steampunk Lightsaber which was so cool it went around the internet twice.

My brother has been collecting ideas for a masterful steampunk computer, with everything from a water-cooled tower to a spinning governor to a projection-screen monitor on canvas. When we start working on it, I'll bring pictures here.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-07-28 04:36am

weemadando wrote:That's what I was referring to. I want the entire setup. And with a mock computer consisting of flywheels, tiny meshed gears and vacuum tubes.

Remember the old software/games that sent output to a printer? Having a 60s-era computer, but based on impact printing and gears, is feasible. THAT would be impressive, that's be awesome... not 'I put my scanner in a wooden box'.

Difference Engine is what steampunk would be if it wasn't taken WAAAAY too far by idiots and turned into shit. Mechanical computer + Victorian era = scientific discoveries that require serious computation occur earlier. Not 'magically steam allows battleships to fly' and crap like that.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2007-07-28 08:22am

The term "gas lamp" instead of "steam punk" is growing on me, but probably most of that is because I like Girl Genius.

Not that liking Girl Genius is in anyway a bad thing.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2007-07-28 04:59pm

Imperial Overlord wrote:The term "gas lamp" instead of "steam punk" is growing on me, but probably most of that is because I like Girl Genius.

Not that liking Girl Genius is in anyway a bad thing.

That stained-glass computer would fit right into GirlGenius, wouldn't it. Wonder if Mr. Foglio's seen these.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2007-07-28 06:01pm

Not classic, or truly "steampunk" at all, but there's always The ElectriClerk for those into this sort of thing.

It's fan-tastic.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-07-28 07:08pm

Yeah Frank, Brazil's design ethic is more properly based around "doing things the hard way."

Post by **Beowulf** » 2007-07-28 07:29pm

Zuul wrote:How does steampunk differ from "retro-futuristic"? Is it as meaningful as the difference between brutal death metal and blackened death metal and black metal?

Retro-futuristic implies that it's what people from the past would imagine the future would be like. Steampunk is what we would imagine people in the past(Victorian era usually) would make stuff high tech look like.