Steampunk.com - Online Home For The Steampunk Movement. Steampunk Central - The Home of Western Steampunk. Do you love Science Fiction but get bored with everything being set centuries in the future, universes full of technobabble and strange alien cultures who are well, alien?
Do you wonder what our world would have been like if technology had leapt forward not ten years but a hundred years ago? If so, then the world of Steampunk is for you! Discover the fun of starships, time machines and space travel all based upon steam and hydraulics ? Taking the best parts of Science Fiction and combining them with imaginative retro twists that can take you to the Wild West, Victorian England or even the world of Renaissance Europe and the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci. See how the world might have been, and how history could be re-written in strange and fun ways! There is excellent coverage of both Steampunk Fiction and RPG? DIY Steampunk Flashdrive (Quick Build)
"Steam" Powered USB Drive. Steampunk Lamp #6. This is the first in a series of airship lamps, made from whatever could be scrounged from the sands of post-apocalyptia. #6 is the Captain’s cabin lamp.
It features a touch dimmer and runs on standard airship current. This lamp will be on display in a local gallery. This entry was posted in Steampunk and tagged handmade, lamp, light, project, Steampunk. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. Brotron - The Art Of Greg Brotherton. Donovan Design: Steampunk/Deco Lamp. Crab Walker. Ant. Fairy. Copper Plating & Etching Altoids Tins. UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces.
Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid. Magazine pages for toner transfer: While looking for information on transferring toner using a fuser assembly from an old laser printer I ran across several websites where people suggested using glossy magazine pages for transferring printed circuit board images to a copper substrate. Preparing the Altoids tins turned out to be harder then I predicted. Next we: Copper Plating Altoids Tins: From the picture below, this appears to work. Foom! Free Metal Etching Tutorial. Remember I said there would be a catch when it came to this freebie tutorial?
Here it is – If you are not already a subscriber of my blog, now’s the time to take the plunge! I ask that you subscribe yourself and share this blog with as many friends as you think appropriate. That may be just one person, it may be a group of people such as in one of your favorite frequented jewelry forums. Share it on facebook, or twitter, or myspace. Share it with as many people as you like! *************************************************************** After all the great feedback on my etched metal projects and many exclamations of ‘I want to do that too!’ For this project you will need: 22 ga or 24 gauge copper sheet metal Sharpie markers (I use a fine point and a fat point) Rubber Gloves for protection Safety goggles Clear packing tape A glass or Tupperware container large enough to fit your project in (NO METAL BOWLS!)
Pour approximately ¼ to a ½ inch of etchant into your bath container. Dirigible Days: 998: The Comic Book (Steampunk) "We had a wonderful experience filming the Dirigible Days web series.
However, it was a huge undertaking, requiring almost five months of weekend shoots (due to our day jobs) and hours upon hours of editing and effects work. Life, much like adventure, is inescapable. But the adventure continues, and we still have more story to tell. So, we're bringing the next chapter to life in the form of a comic book! Victoriana Magazine Online. A Steampunk Cookbook (PDF Download)
Corsets.