We've all probably taken notice of the fantastical contraptions common to steampunk design and wondered how somebody could possibly make that sort of thing happen. It often seems fantastical, unobtainable, and otherwise illusory. Here is an example of how these notions can be practically applied to create a real and functional construct.
I-Wei Huang, the creator of Crab Fu is an artist and steam enthusiast who decided to take his fascination with steam engines to a new level and create steam powered remote control vehichles. All of these function completely off of steam power and are generally driven by a small coal engine.
His designs are a good example of how the fantastical can be made into reality. Check out some of his other creations here.
This stuff is so rad... Before reading your blog, I'd always considered steampunk just an odd music fad, but since reading into it a bit more, I'm realizing these people are truly mastering the "long lost" arts that we've given up with newer technology.
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Pretty brutal dude. I've got a lot of friends into steampunk.
ReplyDeleteNice-Thrash some shit!....Love it
ReplyDeleteI want one of these as a pet.
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Wow what a clever contraption lol. his other contraptions are awesome too.
ReplyDeletelooks so delicate!
ReplyDeletewow that is awesome!!!! lol.
ReplyDeleteThat's sweet. My gfs little brother is into this stuff. He's like a boy genius in building little contraptions.
ReplyDeleteI love steampunk, I have a bunch of steampunk necklaces.
ReplyDeleteI've heard o steampunk but never looked into it.
ReplyDeletenice :D
ReplyDeleteis the video in time lapse? it some how looks strange..?
ReplyDeleteWhat has science done?
ReplyDeleteLooks like it came straight out of the wild wild west movie. Too bad there is no sound, would love to hear it.
ReplyDeleteGreat, is this a train ? is this a tank ? or even an insect ? :)
ReplyDeleteI want this steam centipede now.
ReplyDeleteIts so impressive
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ReplyDeleteugh, want!
ReplyDeletethe legs are creepy, cool neverthless
ReplyDeletethats too cool! makes me want to play Bioshock Infinite!
ReplyDeletewow, i want to make one of those too
ReplyDeletecrazy man. i can see this getting really big and trendy
ReplyDeleteDamn! That's way too cool!
ReplyDeleteWow that's amazing! Its getting unreal what people are accomplishing today.
ReplyDeleteOh man this thing would scare the shit out of my cat! Amazing! subscribed!
ReplyDeleteI think I saw this on the science channel. Really interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletewow cool little machine there...
ReplyDeletei love this homemade robots
ReplyDeletepretty cool. i used to be into robotics but its a bit to technical for my taste
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