Typewriter Buttons and how to make your own! OK as requested. there actually easier than they look to make, i did do a nice pamphlet on Photoshop buts its about 22 meg and wont resize.anyway Ladies and gentlemen,I proudly present the formal constructional information you require Caution! Parts list Fimo or for our Colonial colleges Sculpty, either black or ivory Brass rings (16mm or 5/8") as many as required A copper pipe olive 15mm our tube with a id of 15mm MDF block with a 16mm hole in (5/8") Small rolling pin or similar device wooden dowel or similar slightly smaller than the OD of the ring a baking tray a cooker preheated to 110c or 230f 1. roll out Fimo or Sculpty to about 4mm thick 5/32", then using the pipe olive cutout your fimo disc's 2. drop the fimo disk into the mdf hole and place the ring on top 3. press the ring with the stick into the fimo (gently) 4. lift the fromer and push the button through. 5.thats basically it, now place on a baking tray and cook them for 30 minutes
A Visit to a Steampunked Home If you dropped by my house you'd probably be disappointed. Because (with the exception of my office, which is more post-apocalytic than anything else) it's simply not very steampunk. I do have plans, but none have come to fruition. Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum started ModVic (Modern Victorian) Home Restoration in June 2007 and have now moved onto steampunk Home Design. Bruce's home is a Craftsman style Victorian built in 1901. We'll start the tour in Bruce's kitchen with a lovely Victorian heater restored by David Erickson, a local craftsman and restorer of antique stoves who's workshop is just down the street from my own. Bruce designed and built the fire-back and hearth to compliment the stove and installed the back-lit stained glass windows to brighten the entire kitchen. The hearth is cultured stone done by Brendan Mostecki of Cultured Masonry. The center of the kitchen is dominated by an antique printer's bench topped with engineered quartz stone.
Victorian Organ Command Desk & Steampunk Home Tour You'll recall I recently visited the Steampunk home of Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum. During that visit Bruce showed me a partially finished project that I decided really needed a story of it's own when it was completed This is the "Victorian Organ Command Desk" that Bruce commissioned. All of the major components are in fact authentic Victorian antiques, period reproductions, or salvaged items. It took 6 months to build using four different crafts persons to design the desk, restore and modify the antiques, and install the computer systems. The gorgeous clock face on the 'dashboard' is flanked by 6 LCD digital picture frame displays that featured rotating images of Bruce's friends and family. The desktop included an iPhone doc and a document scanner hidden under a leather lined panel beneath the keyboard. USB and card media readers are available on the right side of the burl walnut dashboard. The webcam is located above and center in this modified film camera.
Unklian Steampunk Mouse After Finding a Steampunk Motorcycle I was intrigued.A Google search of "Steampunk" Found a world of Victorian styled modern technology.Inspired by a Steampunk mouse, I decided to build my own. Not a copy but a completely new design.I bought a very cheap optical mouse and set about *carefully dismantling* destroying it. After chopping round the circuit board mounting pegs, I marked round it to slot it into some 1/4" mahogany sheet. The button microswitches were removed to be used in a more suitable place and also the blue L.E.D. This will be replaced with an orange one. A housing was made for the scroll wheel and the circuit board.The scroll wheel looked very plasticy. A front deck was made from mahogany and the sides were lowered to make the scroll wheel more usable. After literally hours (OK, a long time) measuring, A location was found for the microswitches. The rear of the mouse will be home to a more "Steampunk" kind of innards. These were left a little long to be trimmed later.
How Steampunk Works" Flickering gas lamps puncture a thick London fog. A metallic, rhythmic noise begins to drown out the normal sounds of the evening. An army of copper clockwork automatons comes marching out of the darkness. The term "steampunk" originally referred to speculative fiction -- science fiction, fantasy and fictional historical tales -- set in an alternate Earth's 19th century. Today, people use the term "steampunk" beyond its literary meaning to refer to a style of art and design. What sort of people create steampunk gadgets and what tools and materials do they use? Telegraph Clacks out RSS Feeds When I was a boy my father brought home from work a telegraph sounder replica kit. He was the director of the library for a local college and the sounder kit was one of several museum quality reproductions of 19th Century technology the library had acquired. The lovely brass sounder must have made a large impression, because I have wanted one for my own ever since. Well, here at the The Workshop if you want something, you make it. I started my quest by cruising Google image search for pictures and diagrams of telegraph sounders that matched my recollections of the one my Dad brought home. As it turns out all telegraph sounders are pretty much the same so it was an easy task to collect a bunch of photos and drawing from which I could extract design details and dimensions. I then set out to create a scale drawing I could use to cut my materials. When I had my dimensions, I headed off to Metal Source to buy some brass. A belt sander was also very helpful in smoothing the large flat areas.
Download morse2led 1.0 for Linux - morse2led translates text to morse code displayed on keyboard leds morse2led project consists of two programs, blinker and text2morse. Coordinated use of the programs can translate text into morse code displayed on your keyboard's leds, as described in Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_. The blinker program is a very flexible tool that interprets a token stream as signals to control the leds, allowing one to do cool things like make Knight-Rider patterns or send subtle visual alerts. The text2morse program translates text into user defineable morse code text symbols. Building: # gzip -dc morse2led-1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -# cd morse2led-1.0# . What's New in This Release: · Bug Fixed: text2morse: Incorrect morse for "e/E"· Bug Fixed: text2morse: Buffering stdin working incorrectly, producing huge volumes of output· Feature added: text2morse: command line settable DOT, DASH, code char delimiter, word delimiter · Option changed: -s is - for setting stdin input· Help files corrected and improved· Added morse code READMEs, produced by these apps
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