Steampunk

[straycat]

I'm in techno-lust.

For those who remember this rather wonderful keyboard project (I think I posted a link to this a while back)



Now the same guy has applied the same process to a flat-panel monitor.

If you can't be bothered to read the full article, do yourself a favour, scroll down to the bottom, and feast your eyes on the pictures of the finished article.

Want One Of Those....

I especially love his reasons for doing it:

The Steampunk Keyboard looked terribly anachronistic sitting in front of my Dell 1907FP flat panel monitor and while I hesitated to tear open a $300 monitor that was still under warantee, art must be served.

[Dreadful Scathe]

oooooooooooooooooooh

[ducasi]

While it looks cool and all, I prefer a more 21st century look to the world around me.

Call me crazy, but I guess I'm just not geek enough to understand the steampunk fetish...

[Stuart M]

In the vague hope that someone, somewhere, has produced a computer based on the design in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, I had a search. Found this bit of steampunk - not as glam as those above, but still fun.

[Stuart M]

Originally Posted by Stuart M

In the vague hope that someone, somewhere, has produced a computer based on the design in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, I had a search.

Ooo! Ooo! Only one Google page later, I found it!

[batnurse]

Never in my life would I have thought I'd be lusting after a computer

[Gadget]

Originally Posted by Stuart M

In the vague hope that someone, somewhere, has produced a computer based on the design in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, I had a search. Found this bit of steampunk - not as glam as those above, but still fun.

you mean this:
The ElectriClerk
(mac)
{Edit - damn - beat me to it }

or this:
Datamancer.net - "Computational Engine" Steampunk Casemod
(PC)

[straycat]

There's a lot more of these on Google than I'd realised, it seems.... this laptop, for example.

Or this rather novel water-cooled PC...

[Gadget]

oooh - try this page

Dark Roasted Blend: Cool Computer Case Mods

[Stuart M]

I had a look around to see if anyone had done a faithful ORAC.

The difficulty in such a search, of course, is the number of people round the world who call their own computer Orac, and the existence of a certain RDBMS software company.

I've seen a couple of PC cases that are sort of Orac-esque, like this one, but no real attempt to seriously emulate the snobby perspex fishtank.

[Beowulf]

I planned initially to have my custom build as a wood/brass steampunk case. but then I realised my woodworking / brass working skills were significantly poorer than my dreams so I instead went mainstream and settled for the usual cut case / window with the internal light doodah.

I'm planning to rebuild my PC at the moment.. but can't see it being anything as fancy as the ones above. After all function > form. (But in an ideal world I'd have both!)