I'm continuing to make slow progress, focusing... mostly... on my own rendition of a Steampunk Keyboard for the console's computer. Hopefully this process will be accelerated by my impending purchase of a new bench grinder ( ...let's see... cheap on-sale 6-inch department-store grinder, or an 8-inch "Jet"!... cheap on-sale grinder... or a "Baldor"!... $$$!! Ack!!! ). With the next greatest problem being: How to make the best possible use of this wonderful collection of gears I've amassed ( this, given my recent acquisition of some vintage Gibert-Erector, Meccano, and other gearage, now represents about half of my collection ):
In the case of the keyboard, I at least intend to have certain keys ( like shift, tab, Ctrl, etc. ) trigger various mechanical reactions ( with the "Enter" giving a nice typewriter carriage-return type "zzzzztt! Ding!!" ). As for the rest... I've found a free online reference that might help:
http://www.includipedia.com/wiki/507_Me
... along with Tim Robinson's Meccano Computing Machinery web site ( http://www.meccano.us/ ), of course.
Speaking of which, I've recently found the following... thoroughly wonderful!... online comic:
http://2dgoggles.com/
An alternate-reality Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace!... as a dynamic duo ( always loved "The Avengers" ) using their inventiveness, math skills, and their gargantuan Difference Engine, in the fight against Crime, Corruption, Chaos, Monsters, Poetry, and Aliens! As I said, thoroughly wonderful!!! Please give the artist all your support as I, for one, would like to see more. I think I will definitely buy one of her coffee mugs!
Anyway, maybe some more details on the keyboard later. For now, I've just updated the February 8th, 2009 entry to include more photos and details in the construction of the panel-lamps... which shall, henceforth, be known as "PPBL's" ( ping-pong ball lights ) in recognition of darthdalek1138's rendering of them.
In the case of the keyboard, I at least intend to have certain keys ( like shift, tab, Ctrl, etc. ) trigger various mechanical reactions ( with the "Enter" giving a nice typewriter carriage-return type "zzzzztt! Ding!!" ). As for the rest... I've found a free online reference that might help:
http://www.includipedia.com/wiki/507_Me
... along with Tim Robinson's Meccano Computing Machinery web site ( http://www.meccano.us/ ), of course.
Speaking of which, I've recently found the following... thoroughly wonderful!... online comic:
http://2dgoggles.com/
An alternate-reality Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace!... as a dynamic duo ( always loved "The Avengers" ) using their inventiveness, math skills, and their gargantuan Difference Engine, in the fight against Crime, Corruption, Chaos, Monsters, Poetry, and Aliens! As I said, thoroughly wonderful!!! Please give the artist all your support as I, for one, would like to see more. I think I will definitely buy one of her coffee mugs!
Anyway, maybe some more details on the keyboard later. For now, I've just updated the February 8th, 2009 entry to include more photos and details in the construction of the panel-lamps... which shall, henceforth, be known as "PPBL's" ( ping-pong ball lights ) in recognition of darthdalek1138's rendering of them.
- Did I wake up today in that "Fringe" parallel Universe?
- uhoh... the tinnitus is back...
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TARDIS Console
just WOW...
You should be a prop and set builder. That steampunk tardis console looks fit to be in the show! yesterday AND todays.
If I were you, I'd send the production office pictures of it and offer it up for their use... I'll bet they'll find something to use it for.
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awesome
You should come on over to www.tardisbuilders.com and show it off ;)
Re: awesome
I assure you that this is still a Work-In-Progress. Though, I don't yet think I'm really at a stage where a summarization of what's been done, so far, would adequately serve to illustrate the point of what it's all about.
When that stage does arrive ( and... it had better! ), I will certainly drop by tardisbuilders and try to provide a concise presentation on the "hows", the "wheres", and most importantly ( hopefully )... the "why".
Until then, I will try... once again... continue to try... to provide a few details here, bit-by-bit.