A self balancing, human powered, steampunk styled, Segway. All you need is a brave self balancing human. This is the ultimate green vehicle for all you eco conscious steampunkers. Is that an oxymoron? I made this out of mostly found materials. This was my first steampunk styled build.
Want to learn how to draw steampunk machines? Crabfu has a incredibly awesome tutorial to help you do just that!
To better clarify: This article doesn’t teach you how to draw, but helps established artists learn the finer nuances of drawing realistic steampunk machinery.
The focus is to add enough elements to your drawings, to make your steampunk machines more believable.
I feel that too often, steampunk designs are too fancy. They go too cool and end up loosing the all important look & feel of old tech steampunk. I think that it is important to state that I make real working steampunk machines / robots for a hobby. Through experience and trial and error, I’ve learned not only to make something look like it would work, but actually does work.
Very helpful and informative! Head on over to Crabfu to view this magnificent tutorial in its entirety.
Last September, I blogged about the steampunk haunted house in Pittsburgh, PA.
Here’s a look at another steampunk haunted house in New York City. Put together by the Third Rail Projects, this haunted house has gathered a lot of media attention and publicity because it’s so incredibly awesome.
MSN has nice photo essay entitled, How to Build a Steampunk Haunted House, and they offer great DIY ideas as well as a nice look into the haunted house by Third Rail Projects.
This would be so fun to go to! If you happen to live in the New York City area, you can purchase tickets online at www.thirdrailprojects.com.
Here’s a great way to add steampunky goodness to your Halloween party. Make a steampunk Jack O’Lantern!
Instructables has a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through the process. There’s a lot more to it than simply stretching a pair of goggles onto the pumpkin.
It’s complete with a fog machine controlled by the ioBridge IO-204 and lit by BlinkM RGB LEDs. The fog shoots out of its ears when motion is detected by a Passive Infrared sensor.
Seriously? Fog shoots out the ears when someone walks by? That is so very, very cool. Great job!
What a cool steampunk mononcle! Instructables.com has a detailed 13-step tutorial on how to make one yourself.
Like with any other project, we need to start somewhere. Usually I start sketching my ideas, to have some kind of blueprint to follow. This time I decide to do everything following only my creative talent (if we can call it a talent).
Materials needed:
- a 1.5 liter plastic bottle, the harder the better;
- an old leather purse (true or fake, no matter), ready to be dismantled;
- all-purpose glue, like mastic;
- an old pocket watch, not precious, not working and not reparable (maybe also not yours…);
- a piece of cardboard;
- a sheet of transparent plastic;
- elastic;
- 2 small metal hangers;
- gold, copper or bronze permanent marker;
- some uninsulated copper wire, medium thickness.
Instead of a purse and a watch you can use any kind of leather object big enough to provide the required amount of material, and any other mechanical device that can be reduced to a lot of cogs.
The copper wire should be uninsulated for showing the color. If you have a wire with transparent insulation, it will preserve the natural color of copper, otherwise it can develop an ugly oxide patina.
Optional materials:
- acrylic paint, any color you like;
- fixative or transparent varnish.
The paint is needed only if the leather’s color is wrong for your intentions. For a steampunkish style, you can use black, dark brown, dark bordeaux, anthracite or wet sand color paint. It’s up only to you.
The steampunk gurus over at Outland Armor showed up at Dragon*Con in full force, with amazing steampunk Star Wars costumes!
According to official Star Wars blog, the team dressed as Queen Amidala, Padme Amidala,
Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade, Princess Leia Organa, Slave Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and Aurra Sing.
I just found one of the coolest steampunk blogs ever. This guy is building an amazing steampunk moped, and documenting the creation process every step of the way.
First, he went and bought a moped, then began giving it a steampunk makeover. He’s still working on it, but he’s made a lot of progress. I can’t wait to see it when it’s finished!
