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Slideshow: Steampunk Sensation
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
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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