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Steam-powered steampunk Land Rover (project).
Frank had a dream after reading steampunk classics like The Court of the Air – to build the world’s first fully functional steampunk…
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Steampunk brings steam-age machinery, speculative technology and historical or alternate settings together. Its imaginative world extends from fiction to art, costume and design.
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February 2020
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Robot-pulled steampunk carriage (builder project).
Adam’s first project with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built steampunk carriage with a passenger! Watch Spot…
January 2020
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Can you run a steampunk motorcycle on hot air … or cold? (a kit piece).
Peter Forsberg is a steampunk designer who has produced a steampunk motorcycle that runs from an external compressed air tank which the rider…
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Steampunk assault trombone (a kit piece).
Do you need a steampunk assault trombone? Heck, who doesn’t need a steampunk assault trombone? Here’s one we made earlier … well, the…
September 2019
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Steampunk hot rod: burns all competition!
Steampunk car customiser-king Paul Bacon has completed his most steaming project yet – a steampunk hot rod built from scratch. The Automatron is…
June 2019
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Steampunk laptop, home-brewed to the extreme (maker projects).
Once upon a time there was a maker called Starhawk. Starhawk was bored. What can I create, he pondered? Then, inspiration struck. “I…
March 2019
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Steampunk music synthesizer (SynTesla: rock me sideways).
Fans of Stephen Hunt‘s fun little sub-genre will be pleased to listen in to the SynTesla – a fabulous-looking steampunk music synthesizer built…
March 2018
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Homemade steampunk plasma gun melts our hearts.
Youtuber Robert Johnson has been busy making a homemade steampunk plasma gun. Well, when the tripod war machines from Mars do finally get…
December 2015
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Lego’s Analytical Engine (with added Raspberry Pi).
Lego have their own version of Kickstarter to help bring new kits to life – and one new suggestion is for a steampunkish…