#steampunk I guess

[wire-smith-crafts]

IT SPINS! Handmade electric motor! Entirely out of wire! They said it couldn't be done, but I have proven -- it merely shouldn't be done!

Photos don't really capture how ridiculously complicated this thing was to build, so I managed to film myself assembling the components too! Very proud of that.

In total, I've been working on this project on and off for roughly two years. This motor is my third version, though I went through something like seven designs of the commutator section (not counting how many failures it took to build a working example of a given design). I'm very proud of getting this to work at all.

Some close-up photos of all the components:

Six-way commutator. As the motor spins, this delivers electricity to only the correct pair of magnets at a time, leaving the other four off.

Magnet coils. I wound these by hand from very thin insulated wire. The center is a spiral of thicker insulated wire (darker orange) that protects the thin stands from the steel core and then wraps around the outside to hold everything in place.

Spring-loaded arms. These deliver electricity from the stationary frame into the rotating axle. They also have to hinge up out of the way or else there's no room to fit the rotor in place during assembly.

All the components laid out together before assembly.

And the full motor in all its glory!

[hypno-gears]

Greetings. I'm hypno-gears

-This is my hypnok1nk blog :)

-cis fem

-I post dumb hypno shit idk lol it's hot🤭

-I'm - somewhat - on the asexual spectrum, though, so nothing too graphic.

-Domme, but sorry, I don't offer one-on-one hypnosis sessions anymore. Too awkward. I don't mind making hypno posts for everyone to enjoy, though.

-Pocketwatch/pendulum hypno is best hypno❤️❤️❤️❤️

-I am cringe, but I am free

[discombobulatedrebel]

On Watches

I love watches. Wristwatches, pocket watches, clocks. You name it.

The way they tick, the way they measure something as elusive as time itself – it's like holding a piece of the universe on your wrist or in your pocket or on your wall.

Of course, there's always the overwhelming urge to crack them open, to break every single one apart and peer inside. To see the intricate gears, springs, and cogs.

You can't look at a watch and not immediately think about what's inside.

Right?

But yeah. Watches. Splendid shit.

[wire-smith]

METAL WIRE GO SPINNY!

I got this one much more precise than my previous attempts, so it not only spins, it spins nearly silently. Plus I managed to build in some (experimental) attachment points, so hopefully the rest of the armguard will just slot onto it. (Once I build the rest, anyway.) This piece will go in the middle of my forearm so my wrists can freely rotate palm up/down.

[endlesslytired]

Penacony.

more from the post looooop:

[hsslilly-blog]

brigette's fashion show: the girls through the decades!!!!!!! indirectly inspired by @hssprimefan's "brigette's happy ending".

i’ve been meaning to do something like this since 2022 but i never got around to it. but here we are: 20s katherine, 30s mac (@ih8harley’s mc), 40s sakura, 50s kallie, 60s blair, 70s mia, 80s koh, 90s autumn and 00s payton!! i tried sticking to their colour palettes because i thought it’d be fun.

[phoenixyfriend]

I got a fashion sketchbook (affiliate link), which is basically a sketchbook that has very, very pale lines in the shape of an exaggerated human figure that a person can then draw clothes onto without worrying about having to draw a person first.

I do wish there was some more body diversity in this, but it's got so many pages that I'looking forward to messing around with designs anyway, even if I have no idea what I'm doing and am only sort of decent at it.

Obvious first sketch was. uh. Steampunky.

(You can see those faint figural lines in a few places, most notably the bikini area.)

[steampunk-phighting]

2 pipe bombs. 1 bracelet

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

[thattheater-kid]

I feel like Nimona and Jim Hawkins would be friends.

[wire-smith]

Today's wire work: a modular wrist strap. My hope is that one day this will be a mounting point for connecting a future Cool Wire Armguard to my arm. It comes apart so that if one part breaks or doesn't fit my future design, I don't have to rebuild the entire thing. (Yes I am slowly reinventing interchangeable parts, in wire. What of it.)

[avephelis]

machine beast. hashtag girl.

[zarvasace]

Ok Random question but if The Colors lived in a time when Hyrule had trains i.e. the Spirit Tracks era, what do you think each Link's relationship with the trains would be. Like would they all end up engineers, maybe Shadow gets spooked by the trains since nothing like that existed in the dark world. I dunno this is just a random thought that has gotten itself lodged in my brain

Okay, so Tumblr didn't show me this came in until now. XD sorry!

I don't know much about Spirit Tracks but I can imagine an early industrial revolution AU with some magic just fine!! :) let's come up with a train-centric steampunky AU:

Kingdom of Hyrule, less of a political kingdom these days, specializing in innovation. They've expanded their rail lines within their borders and have been making deals with other countries to build outward. There is one main rail line sponsored by the government, and universities and a few smaller ones trying to break into the growing industry.

Green, Red, Blue, and Vio are all new graduates of the kingdom's university, each specializing in something different. They're all in minor competition for The Title of Royal Engineer, but otherwise good friends with each other and the dean's daughter Zelda.

Using a steampunky mad science/occult ritual, the most relevant bad guy summons Shadow and, I assume, kicks off the plot.

Green would be kind of an officer—I don't know how train hierarchy works but I can pretend it's something like a ship. He's advancing through the ranks toward captain conductor and took officer classes at school. He's considerate but a little snobbish, coming from a rich family and knowing he's on track to be in charge someday.

Blue clashes the most with him, though Blue doesn't have any intention of being conductor (anymore.) He's well-acquainted with heavy machinery, the real greasy bolts and wheels of it all, and not just for trains. His standards of cleanliness and organization are legendary, and Green consults with him about the condition of the train as a whole.

Red is concerned, of course, with the whole steam-power part of it all. He's intimately familiar with several methods of propulsion, and enjoys trying to come up with more and more efficient engines. He knows exactly how much fuel they need and how to portion it out. He got into some trouble in school for several explosions and usually has soot on his clothes. Where Blue is concerned with every wheel and cog, Red knows the locomotive and tender car like the back of his hand. Better, probably, since his hands are usually blackened or gloved.

Vio's more about the logistics, the theoretical, the communication. He keeps the timetables, the financial records, and telegrams. He's a chronic overworker, and it isn't uncommon to find him napping in his tiny little office chair, several drained cups of coffee rattling on the desk. He's often first off the train at a stop, though he prefers to get back to the office as fast as he can.

Shadow is the ghost in the train. He's the silhouette against the oil lamps, the rippling reflection in the windows, the thing out the corner of your eye. He's the false telegram message, the broken face of the temperature gauge, the bell ringing in an empty compartment.

Okay well that was fun XD got a little more Aesthetic than Conceptual there at the end but hey fun times!

[docholligay]

Trying not to murder my darling sister who, I remind myself, I love very much, as I attempt to help her plan a trip to the UK.

[cero-sleep]

@kabra-malvada them✨

[erisacolyte]

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