Please, if you value your speaking parts, do not try to read the title of this post out loud three times fast.  I’ll not be responsible for suffocating fits caused by tied tongues!  But enough of that – Weta are at it again and this time they’ve not only revealed a new raygun*, but they [...]

That Mr Babbage was a remarkable man, and while the Difference Engine was not completed in his lifetime, he (and his creations) still inspire the most cutting edge of technology today.  The BBC has an article on how a team lead by Professor Blick, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, propose to use diamond or piezoelectric [...]

Mr Mordasky, inspired by Mr Von Slatt, decided that his Apple Pismo laptop could do with a little bit of aesthetic modification, and created a lovely, more subtle effect of layered cogs and brass scales in the Clockwork Pismo.  There’s a walk through of the process, from how to get the watch gears to sit [...]

What a marvellous contraption!  Mr Jonathan Nightingale Lait on the Steampunk forum was kind enough to show us some very well taken photographs of his latest creation – a monoggle that allows seeing into either the future or the past.  As one might imagine, this is very handy in the workshop when wondering where you [...]

There is a group of people who like Zeppelins, and a group of people that like hardcore business simulation games for their computers, and in the small but terribly interesting area where those two groups of people overlap, there is the game Zeppelin – Giants of the Sky on DOS and Amiga.
A curious but somehow [...]

Ms Kaoru asked if I’d seen some lovely lamps and clocks by the artist Benjamin Jones.  I hadn’t, but I find them to be quite lovely – my favourite easily being the above spider lamp of brass and polished wood.  The dragonfly is also charming – hovering as it does above a brass riveted lily [...]

The Boston Globe did a video interview with the two gentlemen behind the Personal Blimp project (which recently got the approval nod from the FAA to be allowed to carry passengers in their not-quite-an-airship-not-quite-a-balloon vessel).
It’s lovely to see it in action, and I wish them all the very best in the future for making the [...]

A while ago I posted about the wonderful, lovely arithmometers – the calculating machines of the 1820’s.  Move forward a little to the 1870s and we have the introduction of the no less handsome pinwheel calculating engines.  Above is one of the oldest, the Baldwin Calculating Engine of 1874, able to add, subtract, multiply and [...]

In a secret location in the Ætherport of El Pueblo de Los Angeles, there will be an event, nay – and extravaganza of Steampunk, Neo-Victorian and Fantasy themed music and revelry this coming Saturday (the 21st of July).  It’s seldom that a ball comes with a tale of Steampunk adventure, but this one does:

“The Dauntless [...]

Over at Instructables, Mr Nemo Gould has posted how he made the beautiful moving Giant Squid mechanical creature that we posted about some time ago. It is so easy to forget just how big this wonderful contraption-like piece of art is, but when you think that the head of the giant squid was formed [...]