Honest Hardware in Pine and Iron Pipe
Pine boards and black iron pipe, and I'd still call it the most honest PC I've seen this year. Dante Mutti spent two years on Hydropower, and three decisions earn…
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Nuvistor 555 Timer
Glorious, and absurd... I'm saying that as a compliment. Eric Schlaepfer, who posts as TubeTimeUS, built a 555 timer out of eight tetrode nuvistors, and Hackaday covered it this month…
The Computer That Fits In A Mint Tin
Salim Benbouziyane crammed a working computer into an Altoids tin, keyboard included. Comfortable? He says no, the keys barely travel. I'll take a cramped keyboard I can carry in a…
Key City Steampunk: Worlds of Tomorrow
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Home of one of the bloodiest battles in American history, a hotel restaurant literally called the 1863, and, apparently, the East Coast's best excuse to put on goggles…
Employee Handbook: Portsmouth Aeroshipbuilding Co.
Someone applied the Formulae to a WWII shipyard employee manual, and the result is exactly as beautiful and deranged as that sounds. South Carolina artist Tony Snipes is Kickstarting Employee…
The 10th Annual Obtainium Cup Contraptor’s Rally
Hand-built sculptural vehicles versus flying monkeys, killer robots, and zombies. On a closed course. Judged by how well the contraption handles the chaos. This is the Obtainium Cup Contraptor's Rally…
San Francisco Historium Spotlight
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair spent two months building 46 period structures in a pair of Cow Palace warehouses, loaded the whole town onto eight semi-trucks, drove…
Castle in the Stars: The Universe in 1875
Napoleon III's aetherships dueling the British Empire over Venus. Germans colonizing Mars. The moons of Jupiter, unclaimed and up for grabs. That's not a geopolitical fever dream — that's the…
Steel Seas & Sky Machines: The Dieselpunk Art of Tony Snipes
Somewhere in an alternate 1940s, Abraham Lincoln survives, the Reconstruction goes differently, and battleships take to the skies on the back of bold leaps in electricity, magnetism, and gravity. That…
Addams Family Thing
Doktor A built his Thing for an Addams Family-themed exhibition at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro North Carolina. Personally, I'd like to see the whole house done this way. Can…