Retro

Steampunk machine for fishing the aethers

Steampunk machine for fishing the aethers

Here’s another amazing steampunk creation, currently up for auction on eBay, by UK “assemblage artist” Alex cf. He calls this device a “Necropathic spectregraph,” design for “experiments in the fifth realm” and for the containment of non-corporeal entities, which is a fancy way of saying it’s a beautiful prop designed to look devilishly cool and […]

1,700 arcade manuals

Jason Scott posted a collection of 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format, he writes – If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format?”, your prayers were just answered. This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by […]

Amazing monocycle replica

Amazing monocycle replica

You may have seen images of this gorgeously crafted “monocycle/monowheel” replica (of an 1873 French design) making its way through the series of tubes. It was for sale, briefly, on eBay (with starting bid at US$13,000). 1873 Monocycle/Monowheel Replica – Link 1873 Monocycle Replica Is a Mechanical and Engineering Marvel – Link

Kitchen tabletop letterpress

Kitchen tabletop letterpress

This Instructable shows how to use a small tabletop letterpress. The press is built with little more than plywood, long threaded rods, and a woodworker’s veneer press screw. Unfortunately, the maker didn’t actually take pics of the construction process (the Instructable shows the letter-pressing, not the building of the press itself), but things seem reasonably […]