Author: shanmoon

Star Wars Steam

Star Wars Steam
Star Wars Steam

I’ve got some new toys for my desktop… steampunk Star Wars action figures! Droids rock, and they rock more when they are steamed!

The imperial figures are pretty nifty too, but nothing beats R2-D2, the coolest ‘bot of all time.

The Whirlygig Emoto

Steambike
This lovely Steam Electric Hybrid Motorcycle was featured at the 1st annual Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, Ca. as part of the Ratchet and Rumble Crew.The Whirlygig also traveled to San Mateo, California for the Bay Area Maker’s Faire and recieved a Make Magazine Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbon!

The story of the making of this masterpiece can be found at the owner’s website.

Ride
I’d love to ride off with this bike! I wonder what the top end is? I need to plan my get away with this beauty.

Steampunk Laptop

Datamancer
Datamancer
This is the finest bit of Steampunk engineering that Steampunk Girl has seen to date. It may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

Look here for the details on the making of this steampunk masterpiece

Ivy League Robot Wars

What happens when a Harvard tech head is stuck in a waiting room with her killer laptop? Robots Wars, steampunk style! Harvard vs. Yale! Alas, the first few seconds of audio are clipped, just know it starts with “Yale is awesome!” (Cough, cough, I know….)

Website Change

I have swapped hosting companies. I am going to be converting the website from the old nuke based content management system to a new content management system. It’s going to take me quite a while to convert my nuke site template to a wordpress template (especially since I don’t have a lot of spare time). Until this is done, I probably won’t be making a lot of updates to the website. I’ve got a preview of the work-in-progress at shan2.moonbase.net. It is pretty rough so far… the layout is far from finalized and the css definitely needs tweaked.

Another semester

Harvard EXT Shield
Another semester over…another A… and of course it has all started over again for another 3 months of academic fun. Only 6 more semesters to go before mastery. Sometimes I wonder why I keep doing this? And shouldn’t a part-time course load be at least a LITTLE less stressful? Oh well.