Slideshow: Steampunk Sensation
First Published October 2008
Do-it-yourself enthusiasts are drawing on the elaborate aesthetics and romantic worldview of the Victorian era to create steam-powered machines, brass-adorned computers, and other fantastical contraptions. All hail the steampunk subculture
Photo: Jonathan Sprague/Redux
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STEAMY STEPS: California artist and animator I-Wei Huang,
known as Crab
Fu, has built a legion of
remote-controlled steaming creatures out of
scale-model tanks and boats, electronics kits,
and “a bunch of junk parts I’ve collected.” The
Steam Walker, one of his favorite creations,
uses a Wilesco D14 miniature steam engine and a
system of sprockets and chains to move its feet.
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For more on Steampunk
see The
Steampunk Contraptors