Have a look at this video of a gorgeous Jacob's ladder!  I love the sound that it makes, I must have one now!

Be sure to click through to see the build and while you're there do not miss the other projects that include:

• Steampunk multi-tool holster
• Nautical thumb drive
• PC Casemod with working magic eye tube!
• USB Switcher with NIXIE indicator!
• Laser printer motor gyroscope (brassy!)
• Tesla coil

And more!

I fear that I am going to have to seriously up my game if I'm to compete with the likes of this fellow!

My profile is finally up at Makezine.tv! I had a wonderful (though slightly grueling) time taping this segment with Emily Goldberg and her crew back in August. We were extremely lucky that a whole bunch of things all seemed to happen at once and we were able to pack a huge amount into the segment! I particularly want to thank the Steampunks from The Mass_Steam LJ Community who drove out to the Groton Public Library to see my talk there and to do interviews with Make:TV - you guys totally make the piece!  I also want to thank two of the most awesome people I have ever met, Holly and Matt of H U M A N W I N E  who you see perform at the end of the segment. Now watch!

Here's another Steampunk keyboard, and one of the closest copies of the original I've seen to date!  I was alerted to it by the creator of this wonderful example - Peter Sztojanov jr. from the beautiful city of Budapest - who commented on my MySpace page.

There are quite a few more shots in his Flickrstream here!

Since the caption on the leading photo reads "Steampunk Alchemy's 1st keyboard"  I am wondering if my good friend Rich Nagy a.k.a. Datamancer hasn't got some new competition from his ancestral homeland!

We have a new puppy in the house, and while this is a wonderful thing in general, it means I sometimes have to get up in the middle of the night to let him out. The problem is I don't have a bedside lamp so I end up stumbling across the bedroom to turn on the overhead lamp so I can find the leash as well as my robe and shoes. Needless to say this does not please The Lady. So, my next project had to be a new bedside lamp.

Like most of my lamp projects this one started with a visit to the junk bins.  At right you see part of an antique student lamp I rescued from the metal recycling bin before the ban on picking at our local dump went into effect.  It's quite nicely made, but this is all I was able to retrieve.  The other parts are from various more mundane fixtures and the bulb at left is a reproduction Aerolux glow lamp. 

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Cliff writes:

Here's a nice little keyboard and monitor set from Daniel Pon.  I particularly like the small form factor, I have a Happy Hacker KB kicking around the shop that I might do something like thing too.

I love to see people's workspaces, probably because my workshop is just about my favorite place in the world to spend time. 

My workshop is in my garage, which is a common situation in the States. However, in the U.K. it's the garden shed that often houses the secret laboratories of British Steampunks. This is doubly exciting to me because I love tiny buildings nearly as much as I love workshops!

Clearly many people in the U.K. share my affliction for there is a website solely dedicated to documenting these architectural gems and today they are featuring the shed of one Outa Spaceman, who many will recognize from the Brass Goggles Forums.

What a lovely little place to spend the day constructing infernal machines!

The title says it all - these are just brilliant! (via - Steampunkpics )

I have legions of minions (both cybernetic and meatiform) so if you say 'steampunk' anywhere on the interwebs I'm liable to pop up in UR LJ or UR Flickr within hours.  Such was the case this morning when I discovered this marvellous machine built by banjo player Will Segerman for a musical group aptly named The Clockwork Quartet.

Will's Flickr stream is here (be sure to check out the Blunderbuss and Transparent Armour!) and if I were you I would sign up to the Clockwork Quartet's Facebook page. If these folks musicianship match Will's craftsmanship - they are going to be awesome indeed!

More pics after the cut!