Relatively new reader Sengkelat wrote to tell me of a tradition that s/he and a group of friends participate every Easter – they build something around a theme that involves marshmallow bunnies – and then burn it all!  This year, the theme was robots.  Sengkelat was struck by the Steampunk bug and created the above, magnificient, cardboard crab vehicle!  Piloted by marshmallow bunnies (as well as grasping one in its claw), it’s an amazing piece of Steampunk creation – especially since it was always destined to burn.

More impressively, Sengkelat thoroughly documented construction, resulting form and the eventual burning on Flickr.  While the construction set is not quite tutorial in detail – it’s very close to one, detailing each step even down to what boxes gave their life so that the crab robot may live.  It is really rather an impressive piece of cardboard engineering (with small wooden axles, occasionally).  Very well done indeed, Sengkelat!