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    Steampunk

    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.

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    Re: Steampunk

    oooooooooooooooooooh

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    Re: Steampunk

    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...
    Last edited by ducasi; 29th-November-2007 at 06:22 PM. Reason: typo!
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    Re: Steampunk

    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.

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    Re: Steampunk

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    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!

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    Re: Steampunk

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

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    Re: Steampunk

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    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)


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    Re: Steampunk

    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...
    Last edited by straycat; 29th-November-2007 at 04:52 PM.

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    Re: Steampunk

    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.

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    Re: Steampunk

    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!)

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