You and 2,000 of your friends buy a 27 Kw reactor, use it to run the steam plant for your retro-anacrhonistic re-enactor village, and sell airship rides to tourists.
Cynthia and I went to the California Steampunk Convention this weekend. Wrist computer (non-functional) from Got Steam? In a recent piece for Fantasy Magazine, Stephen H. Segal wrote on why Steampunk is popular: It’s equal opportunity geekery for women and men. An aesthetic response to the glossy surfaces and clean lines of contemporary SF media [...]
I’ve published some photos from my trip to the 2008 Maker Faire. The set includes a Babbage Engine constructed from a Mechanno Set, my friend Peter’s iPhone controlled watering can, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, a flying model of a Mercury Redstone rocket, and a large, menacing alien tripod.
I found an airship avatar at Grendel’s Children. It’s great for tooling around Steampunk sims like Babbage Square. And as you see in the photo below, it’s small. Great for days you want to be a Steampunk version of a drone from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels. Hey, wait, I was on a GSV with [...]
Maker Faire was grand. I’d love to share pictures, but the compact flash card in my camera has become unreadable. So no photos of Badgerbag’s laser engraved walking stick, the steam powered car, the Neverwas Haul, the full-sized Mousetrap, or the techno-playing mechagiraffe. Thanks to Toxx’s suggestion, I found Data Rescue II, which was able [...]