{"id":1646,"date":"2008-11-11T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:32:10","slug":"neat-steampunk-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Neat Steampunk Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/timemachine-136x150.jpg\" alt=\"Time Machine\" title=\"Time Machine\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/donpezzano\/sets\/72157602996209350\/\">donpezzano<\/a> makes neat steampunky &#8220;time machines&#8221; and toys out of clock faces, sewing machine parts, and other castoff bits.  He doesn&#8217;t give a lot of information about parts used or construction techniques, but you could certainly use them for inspiration.  (A few of this user&#8217;s other photosets are NSFW, so practice safe surfing.)  <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/\">Dark Roasted Blend<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>Instructables offers a couple of tutorials for making hand-held &#8220;time machines&#8221; as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Build-a-Time-Machine-Vortex-Distortion-Spa\/\">Vortex Distortion Space and Time Dilating Device<\/a> (this user says, quote, &#8220;i personally find alot of steam punk to be a bit over comic like, and a bit to fantastical.&#8221;  Dude.  That&#8217;s its <em>point<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/SteamCyberpunk_Time_Device_On_The_Cheap\/\">Steampunk \/ Cyberpunk Time Device<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If, like me, you tend to squirrel away any interesting bits of broken things, you&#8217;ve probably got some gears and whatnot lying around already.  If you&#8217;re not quite as <del datetime=\"2008-10-30T14:23:34+00:00\">loony<\/del> thrifty, simply dig around in junk shops for broken clocks and other mechanisms that you can dissect.<\/p>\n<p>One of these would be a fun addition to a Victorian costume (you could even attach a functional watch to it somewhere and use it as a pocket watch).  I&#8217;ve always quite liked the idea of a Gentleman Time Traveler, calmly observing other time periods.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also want to carry one if you plan to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/2007\/12\/pretend-to-be-a.html\">Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day<\/a>.  (If they don&#8217;t hold the event again this year, you can always participate in last year&#8217;s festivities.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr user donpezzano makes neat steampunky &#8220;time machines&#8221; and toys out of clock faces, sewing machine parts, and other castoff bits. He doesn&#8217;t give a lot of information about parts used or construction techniques, but you could certainly use them for inspiration. (A few of this user&#8217;s other photosets are NSFW, so practice safe surfing.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}