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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Steampunk computing
The designer of this hand-built steampunk PC explains his motives: "Due to both the lack of creativity in most of the technically inclined and refinements in plastic forming and mass production, the home computer was denied what I feel to be the proudest time in the life of any technological device. It was robbed of the fleeting, wonderful period right after invention, where it is celebrated and honored by the finest craftsman and creative minds, and given a structure befitting its potential and greatness. It was essentially denied a 'novelty period'."
That's quite a maker manifesto -- and besides the PC, the same person made a h4wt flatbed scanner a la steampunk, that he plans to offer as a commercial product. Link (Thanks, Alexander!)
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