Dear all,

With recent outages of Brass Goggles and the Steampunk Forum (for which I am sincerely sorry for) and my lack of regular posts in the last few months, I finally admit that while I struggle alone – I could really do with some help.

So I thought I better ask here first – because I know that there are phenomenally talented people both here and on the forum, and no-one knows Steampunk and Brass Goggles better than the readers.

I’ve got two ‘roles’ to fill, you see:

1. Co-Writer for Brass Goggles.
2. Technical Aetherweb Assistance.

The co-writer would help me keep the post regularity up here on Brass Goggles – I have no shortage of things to post about, I merely lack real world time to turn them into posts written with care.  If there were someone enthusiastic about Steampunk who could in their own well written style contribute 2-4 posts a week, remembering to stay on the lighter side of Steampunk, I’d very much like to hear from them.  If I get more than one volunteer (as I have one volunteer already – a very kind offer indeed) then I’ll have to make some tough choices, but anyone who offers to help already has my heartfelt thanks.

The technical request is due to my lack of cunning with the more technical side of running this site.  As you may know, Brass Goggles is run on WordPress (a rather out of date version) and the forum runs on Simple Machines (again, somewhat out of date).  I’m with Fasthosts, mostly due to the fact that I have unlimited bandwidth.  I’m really seeking some occasional assistance to get things up to date, stop the hacking that has been sneaking in (my apologies to anyone who saw the contents of that RSS feed), and generally get this house in order once again.  An occasional hand, really. The Brass Goggles site is something I run because I love Steampunk (and the people involved in it) and I do not make money from it – that said, I pay for the hosting out of my own pocket and always consider the donations I occasionally get to be ‘extra thanks’ so while I could not pay a co-writer over any length of time, nor could I ‘employ’ an aetherweb advisor, I’d like to give out occasional gifts of thanks from the ‘kitty’ as and when appropriate if I could.

Thank you for your time, and consideration, if you think you could be of assistance, please either comment below with a link to an example of your writing (preferrably to do with Steampunk) if you are interested in co-writing, or with some indication that you have aetherweb muscles AND brains to technically assist.

Someone asked if I could do a tutorial on embroidering cogs (I embroidered some cogs quite a while ago and posted it here) so there’s a new How-To page in the side bar.

Lovely little things, ::cogs.:: chuckles

Those with falconine vision may have already noticed that I’ve added a new page to the Resources section (link bar on the right) to a Brass Goggles Map page. I’m hoping in future that expanded functionality (which I’ve asked for, but have no definite word either way) will allow me and hopefully readers such as yourself to be able to add location markers for places, as well as people. Shops, museums, galleries, particularly fetching parks or really eyecatching architecture – all of these I hope to one day add. In the meantime, should you wish to find other Brass Goggles readers in your local city’s locale please feel free to add your flag.

Bear in mind, there are other Steampunk maps with several lovely members, but I create this one in the hope for it to become a place directory as well as a gentleperson one, not to supplant the one already in existence.

There have been a few Steampunk PC conversions now, and I’m sure several of us have been tempted to do one for ourselves. One of the most attractive features is often a typewriter conversion as the keyboard – and Mr B Zaslow found a page where Mr E Fitzpatrick very painstakingly detailed how he converted a typewriter for his very fortunate (but RSI suffering) wife.

There’s a lot of pictures, lots of detail, and were you so technologically inclined I’m sure it would serve as an excellent tutorial on typewriter conversions. I, however, have probably been a little put off – all those wires and minute soldering put a little fear in me, as lacking in spirit as that seems. I’ll have to go back to admiring such skilled conversions from others.

Oh and it was a mighty battle – trying to get my new tutorial up in a WordPress page. Such fighting with bolds and paragraphs! But despite that, my new tutorial for hastily making a pair of costume goggles from traditionally “Blue Peter”-like materials (toilet rolls etc) is now up. You can see it in the pages now listed under Steampunk Resources.

I apologise for the formatting of it, it really was being quite unreasonable.

Mr Darryl Boyd has written up plans on how to make your own Stirling hot air engine, and if you read the additional notes, you don’t even need to have a lathe to do it! Mr Boyd has posted the plans up for free on his website, in the interest of sharing information about the Stirling engine – which I think is very noble of him. If you scroll down on the front page, you’ll find the gallery of engines from some of the people who have made the engine (including the one by Mr Gordon Harris, who’s forgiveness I beg for posting his image above). If I can somehow get my nontechnical mind around those plans, I may have a go at making one myself – but of course, in a Steampunk style. If you do the same, let me know.

Just a couple of new wallpapers tonight – trophies from my recent trip to the Jewellery Quarter Museum in Birmingham. It’s a perfectly preserved jewellery workshop/factory that was opened in the 1800’s and changed very little until it’s sudden abandonment in the early 1980’s. Re-opened as a museum, the workshop is practically Victorian with only occasional modern nicities like electric lights intruding on the traditional methods. Deeply Victorian.

Just a couple of new wallpapers – maybe one of them will take your fancy.

You will find them on the Wallpaper page on the right.

To go along with the Steampunk Name Generator page, I’ve now added a Steampunk Wallpaper page – where I will hopefully be adding more wallpapers as time goes on. At the moment, there are two wallpapers up in three different sizes:

Comments are welcomed, and suggestions for future images sought.

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You may notice in the side bar at the top that a new page has arrived – a Steampunk name generator! Now, for when you need a nom de plume, an alias or just something to throw the evil geniuses off your real identity, you can have a Steampunk name of your own. Many adventures were had with HTML getting it to work, and I’d like to thank my gentleman friend (who’s Steampunk name would be “Proffesor Patrick Canning”) for doing the code side of it. My gratitude is yours, sir!

Do feel free to post your Steampunk name, if it pleases you – not even I know all the delightful combinations that it may create. It is case sensitive, but you will always get the same name from an identical entry. I would be – “Squad Leader Rebecca Pocket”, which is not a bad Steampunk name.