Bob Martin built this
functioning sub out of a
Disney model kit. He added
lighting, working details and
the mechanics necessary to
propel and dive the sub.
Find out more.
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Wired did a piece on Jay Walker, a technology millionaire and his library of awesomeness.
It is a mix of old styled library, historical science museum and a geek-fest. Walker has everything from an actual Sputnik satellite to an Enigma machine and various medical oddities.
There are more images in the Wired article including more views of [...]

I wanted to point out the blog The Steampunk Home. Writer Sara has an extensive chronicle of interesting commercial spaces and both vintage and steampunk styled home design.
The image to the left is the Bradbury building in LA, the building used in Bladerunner. Steampunk Home has more pictures in the post about the Bradbury.
Some other [...]

This amazing looking library is more simple to put together than it looks. The chesterfield sofa and matching chairs are relatively expensive purchased new, but they can frequently be found where old office furniture items are resold. Law offices getting rid of their old furniture can be a real score for items like this. I [...]

Writer Mary Robinette Kowal modded her laptop inspired by old vintage typewriters. A combination of custom laptop stickers and a key mod to make the existing keys look like old typewriter keys created a cool project with minimal invasive work on the laptop itself.
Check out the entire laptop project and how-to’s at Mary’s blog.

Private rail conjures up images from “Wild Wild West” or old movies. It certainly isn’t your typical RV.
A number of people throughout the country have saved and restored old rail cars to use on a little known travel option that still exists today. You can have a private rail car connect to a scheduled Amtrak [...]

This has made the internet rounds and has been featured in Wired and Newsweek so you may have seen this before. The steampunk inspired keyboard. “Jake” Von Slatt at Steampunk Workshop built this out of an old IBM keyboard, old typewriter parts and some rather involved brasswork. Check out more images and how he put [...]

This bit of Victorian mad science is a joint venture between New York and London. Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George dreamed of creating the Telectroscope, a giant tunnel under the Atlantic connecting two giant telescopes.
Now people on the street in London can see people on the street in New York. Well actually it is [...]

Artist Frank Buchwald’s mad scientist machine lights turn an every day object into other worldly art.
Every aspect of each pieces construction including the bulbs is created by Buchwald.
Check out the full gallery of Buchwald’s lights.

What a cool mix of industrial with a bit gothic Victorian and rather steampunk all together. The Edison in downtown LA has put a true twist on using an old industrial space.
Outside of the left over huge iron generators and other parts from when this was a functioning electric power plant, most of the decor [...]