Isn’t he delightful! Kropserkel have been at it again, not content to just make marvelously ornate metal ‘lightsword’ handles as if owned by Nemo himself, or satisfied by making some of the most Steampunk rayguns I have ever laid eyes on – they have created two of the most characterful stop motion Steampunk robots that I imagine could ever be made! Created from mostly found parts, and articulate down to the finest joints, they were made by Mr Nelson Costa, and should all go well, they’ll be used at some point to make a stop motion animation by the generous gentleman who informed me of them, Mr S Wickett.

Oh, how I’d love to see the results! What mischief could the 150 year old artificial human, and his companion, Henry Ford’s first robot, get up to I wonder?
Look out too for the ‘working sprung clock‘ that looks like it’s broken, but isn’t, and the ‘Steampunk Star Doll‘ that lacks limbs but makes up for it in cuteness. Thank you so much, Mr Wickett – I hope you get to animate these sooner rather than later, and please convey my admiration to your friend!

I love science kits, I really do – I can’t help it.  It saddens me a little when the cog kits I get are in dayglo orange, however and emblazoned with assurances that it’s not suitable for under 6 months.  However, there seems to be a range of science kits in Japan that suit me right down to the ground – Gakken Adult Science Kits and magazine feature the above Edison style phonograph kit, a Stirling engine kit and a steam car kit.  All three I approve of highly in principle.  The phonograph uses cheap plastic cups as your recording cylinder, ready for playback with a little weight modification.  As you can imagine, I doubt that the sound will be up to Dolby 5.1, but I adore it for the Steampunk hands-on nature of it.  It seems you can buy these things in the US from Very Cool Things, but I’m unsure if other places do them cheaper (there was one ebay auction I saw, but I doubt it’ll last).

And lastly – it greatly appeals to me to be hosting a party, complete with cheap plastic cups, only to tell my guests later that their cups actually contain recorded messages!  Silly, I realise, but fun.  *chuckles*  Oh, if anyone can read Japanese, and finds out anything more about this item, then I’d love to know – it seems to be a film projector kit?

Some of you may be aware of the scourge of the skies – the deadly Air-Kraken.  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of them (The Horror of the Heights), and the whole ecology supporting these sky based terrors, they seem to have been mostly forgotten about.  Well, with March being the height of their mating season, it’s as good a day as any to look warily to the skies and remember the mighty Air-Kraken.

It is of course, St. Patrick’s Day also, so perhaps you’ll take a glass or two of whatever tickles your fancy, and look to the skies to see if you might by chance spot an Air-Kraken flitting between the clouds – it’s probably the very best time to do so.  Current theories believe them to be either semi-transparent and made from mostly aerogels, or alternately colour-changing like water-based squid and supported aloft by sacs of hydrogen.
Thank you both Mr Rowland and Mr Kiskolou of the Steampunk Forum for educating me in the ways of Air-Kraken.

Oh Professor Fzz – I do like this.  This is the copper-tube constructed light with squirrel cage bulbs created by the good Professor Fzz – and posted recently in the Tactile section of the forum.  Not only was the Professor good enough to post a link to several very high quality images (the bulbs were dimmed for photographing purposes) but then posted a link to a page on how it was constructed!  Absolutely wonderful!

I was pleased to see that the good Professor took care to make sure the copper frame did not become live – as that would be somewhat uncomfortable for all concerned.  Excellent use of old shoelaces too (whoever the credit goes to for the idea)!

Mr Sudlow pointed out the amazingly intricate, and imagination-inflating image above (horribly destroyed by my shrinking it) entitled “Our First Travels” over at the CGSociety forums.  Created by the user Lemog for a competition (themed on Space Opera) it shows what Victorian engineering – still fresh from creating the Crystal Palace etc – could have imagined their first trip into space might be like.  Glass and steel wings, with ornate walkways and ballast bags, with gentlepeople taking the ‘air’ and enjoying the spectacle.  Quite beautiful.
Appropriately though (and equally impressive) the artist created a followup image, imagining the trip home to Paris.  Entitled “The Last Travel” it gives a better view of the spacevessel (and there’s not much to it) and a better sense of scale – landing, with people grabbing the ropes to steady it, it descends into a beautiful courtyard, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.  Very lovely indeed.

A while ago we looked at a rather impressive Instructable on how to make a mad scientist light – and it looked very fetching indeed! But I where to get appropriate bulbs – a few people made suggestions after that post and I looked into it myself, so we’ve got a couple of places that might take your fancy:

Tube Depot has some rather impressive, but also distressingly pricey antique style bulbs at about $18 a pop.

Signals has a smaller selection that I’ve seen, but the prices range more too – $16 to $28!

And Lightbulbs Direct in the UK will sell a squirrel cage style bulb for approx £11 each.

[Edit – Oops!  Missed one from Mr Adams – Walgreens does some too, though not as pretty, much cheaper at $7]

Thanks to both Mr Bowden and Mr Hildebrandt for finding some of these – if anyone knows other places to find these rather handsome lightgivers, a note in the comments would be most helpful!

Maintenance over and done with.  Apologies to anyone who had to suffer the white page of doom while the transfer occurred.  You may notice that we’re now using the address “www.brassgoggles.co.uk” for both the forum and for here at the Brass Goggles blog.  All your old links should still work, however.

Many thanks!

Tinkergirl.

Good evening,

Just to let everyone know that I should be transferring over both the Brass Goggles blog, and The Steampunk Forum, to a new (and far sturdier) server some time in the next twenty-four hours (hopefully at one of the quieter times of the day).

Do not adjust your wireless – if you should find that you catch us, mid move, there’s no cause for alarm. If all goes well, you should notice no change at all at your end.

Many thanks,

Tinkergirl.

I’m back from my brief away, and much refreshed. While I was up in Scotland, I visited New Lanark, a restored Victorian era cotton mill village which was fun and had some lovely brass and cold steel machinery – I’d recommend it for a short visit, though it’s heavier on the human element, than the mechanical one. chuckles (The image above is not New Lanark, it’s the Black Country Museum – far closer and thus my ‘home’ image.) I’d like to thank Mr Hildebrandt (or Jake of all Trades) for taking such good care of Brass Goggles in my absence – she can be a feisty beastie with a heart of gold, and you did very well indeed. Mr Hildebrandt will be returning to his own blog, and to some very exciting Steampunk projects of his own, but he may return to do a guest post now and then if he feels particularly inspired.

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I will be away up to Scotland to visit my mother for a few days – from Sunday to Thursday (17th to the 22nd) – and while I’m away, Mr Hildebrandt has kindly offered to keep the boiler stoked here at Brass Goggles.  Please make him feel welcome in my absence.
And because I really cannot bear to post something so content bereft, I’ll add in this little nugget of Steampunk info – (and thank you to Mr Iversen for being my ear to the ground on this one) apparently New Line Cinema are intending to do a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!  It’s too early to tell anything much about it – a 2009 release estimate – but it’s interesting to know.  Surely, with a film such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there cannot help but be a whole new generation of Steampunk fans!

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Once apon a time, in a faraway land, lived a Steampunk Princess, and this adorned her hand.

The above is a ring made by ~gandolfi over at DeviantArt, and Mr Hildebrandt thought it quite impressive indeed – quite appropriate for a Steampunk princess, should he find one.  *chuckles*

Designed in digital form, then 3d printed, it was finally made in silver.  Quite impressive – and especially so now I know the process.  I particularly like the little rivet details, though I worry that the bolt sides would chafe most uncomfortably.  But goodness – as if I’d ever get the chance to complain!  *smiles*