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Wind-up steampunk laptop

Our pal Datamancer has finally finished and posted details on his steampunk laptop. And it was worth the wait. Seriously cool. He also has a tutorial on making the brass faceplate he used on the mod and a page showing his gorgeous custom-made steampunk keyboards. I like how he has a customer testimonial on the keyboards from sci-fi/fantasy author William King (who writes game fiction for Games Workshop).

Datamancer's Steampunk Laptop -Link
Custom Keyboards - Link
Brass faceplate mini-tutorial - Link

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Posted by: samurai1200 on November 1, 2007 at 3:22 PM

thats freaking awesome! i especially love the wifi antenna/feather.

Posted by: on December 1, 2007 at 5:29 PM

If you need a new laptop battery, I suggest you could purchase one from http://www.batteryfast.com , which would shipping to you fast and the quality is satisfy satisfied.:)

Posted by: Erin on September 29, 2008 at 8:26 PM

HOW?

How would I be able to possibly, one day, have something like this made for me out of my existing laptop???
How much do you think it would be?

I LOVE the style and everything about it.
But I could never do it myself.

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