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Steampunk R&D

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Sep 11, 2012

A man named Tom Hardwidge has taken it upon himself to create an army of steampunk insects from a bunch of different found materials, including bullets and pocket watches. He's made a ton of them—and ...

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Sep 11, 2012

You may or may not have heard of alt-rock band Panic! at the Disco, but a year and a half ago they released a single called "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", which had an accompanying music video that was St ...

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Sep 11, 2012

Threadless is a great site for anyone who wants to buy some steampunk t-shirts. For example, this bizarre shirt:Or maybe this one is more your speed:You can browse their site and come across all kinds ...

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Sep 9, 2012

Last year, Instructables user Horatius.Steam created Dr. Brain, a small computer connected to a model brain that can tell stories and have Skype conversations. But one thing it couldn't do was print, ...

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Sep 9, 2012

Every year in Ontario they have a festival to showcase and appreciative steam-based vehicles, called Steam-Era. Not a very original name but at least it's descriptive.It just ended a few days ago, but ...

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Sep 9, 2012

Thomas Willeford runs Brute Force Leather and is responsible for a lot of really cool steampunk things, like the mechanical arm that Nathan Fillion wore in the TV show Castle.He got together with the ...

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Sep 8, 2012

Say whatever you want, but Steampunk is primarily a maker culture. Consider that Steampunk has existed since the 1960s and yet more or less languished in obscurity until approximately 2005, which is w ...

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Sep 8, 2012

You know that steampunk is mainstream when they even talk about it in comic strips. At least they got the punk in steampunk right.I don't know why anyone would be mad if their child was a steampunk. A ...

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Sep 7, 2012

So, you want to throw a steampunk party and you have almost everything in place—your steampunk persona and iPhone are ready to go, and you've even got your own steampunk straight razor. What's missing ...

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Sep 7, 2012

I came across this article on Cracked, and everything used to look so much better than it does now. They used to know how to make people look good no matter what they were doing.Look at some of these ...