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Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts [Paperback]

Author: Thomas Willeford | Language: English | ISBN: 0071762361 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Unleash Your Inner Mechanical Mastermind

Welcome to the wondrous world of Thomas Willeford, aka Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, in which he shares his closely guarded secrets of Steampunkery. Filled with do-it-yourself projects, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts shows you how to build exquisite, ingenious contraptions on a budget.

Learn from Lord Featherstone as he distills his wealth of hard-learned skills, describes how to use the readily available tools of the modern mad scientist, and expounds on the art and philosophy of scavenging unique components and raw materials. The perfect companion for the hobbyist and advanced machinist alike, this inventive volume will guide you through the creation of your very own infernal devices.

Get steamed with these provocative projects:

• Aetheric ray deflector solid brass goggles
• Calibrated indicator gauges
• Ferromagnetic self-scribing automated encyclopedia (or, the Steampunk book drive)
• High voltage electro-static cannon (or, the lamp gun)
• Tesla-pod chrono-static insulating field generator (or, the mobile device enclosure)
• Altitude mask with integrated respiratory augmentation
• Armoured pith helmet
• Mark I superior replacement arm with integrated Gatling gun attachment

Visit the companion website, www.mhprofessional.com/steampunk, for videos, images, and more bonus content!

Make Great Stuff!
TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.

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• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (October 4, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071762361
• ISBN-13: 978-0071762366
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Steampunk is a unique place where love of gadgets, art, and the nostalgia for the Victorian-era antiques meet. In recent years it has grown in popularity and today there are dedicated websites, publications and book that deal with Steampunk. Yet most lovers of Steampunk are still just the observers, not really creating any of these artifacts themselves. You might be one of those people, and if you have always thought that creating Steampunk would require talent and technical skills well outside of your comfort zone, then you should check out "Steampunk - Gears, Gadgets and Gizmos". It is an informative and instructional how-to book that will teach you how to create some relatively simple yet cool gadgets.

There are no formal technical requirements before you can start working on the projects in this book, but some familiarity with workshops and tools is highly recommended. A few projects are simple enough that you don't need the skills much above the ones you needed for your elementary school projects.

This book contains a total of eight different projects, and they vary in the level of difficulty. The instructions for each one of the projects are extremely detailed and clear. The instructions are accompanied with numerous photographs and illustrations, which help you with your workflow and elucidate some of the trickier points. You will still have to tinker and figure many details on your own, but

There are numerous tips and hints throughout the book, which range from the completely general ("metal is always preferable to plastic") to very specific ("Bending the wire slightly shorter than the height of the bezel will help tighten and secure the entire apparatus.").

Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos ; A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts by Thomas Willeford has a stated intention of teaching you to make you own retro futuristic accessories.

This is the book you're looking for if you're ready to take that next step into steampunk. If jewelry collage assemblages made with watch parts and sewing miniature top hats isn't doing it for you and you want to go bigger.

The author starts by explaining a bit about steampunk, it's origins and what it is stylistically speaking, and also what it is not.

He explains the tools and skills you'll need and how to find some of the tools less expensively . He tells you what tools will be necessary and which tools are wonderful to have if you can find room and afford them.

Then he goes into wonderful amounts of detail about how to find the pieces you need for your projects through thrift stores and other second hand dealers and what you can buy new. How to look in hardware stores for inspiration and using things in new unexpected ways. To me, this isn't just about steampunk, but it's the heart of crafting and the D.I.Y. ethic, to see creatively how things can be re-purposed and recycled.

A very practical chapter on taking apart an old clock for parts comes next.

The projects! Starting with the one thing everyone needs, goggles and ending with a cyber arm that looks like it might have come off a cylon if the cylon was built in Victoria's England. They have imagination inspiring names like "Aetheric Ray Deflector Solid Brass Goggles" which can be just a little scary. Don't worry. While this book has "only" 8 projects, those projects are explained and photographed in exhausting detail. This is a primer to various methods of making things and using things.

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