Steampunk Deaf

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It'd be cool if someone could make a fully functional articulating hands and be able to sign with it. Here's a guy who made one articulating hand steampunk style.

Steampunk mechanical hand costume mod - YouTube

Any steampunk fans out there? If you like Wild, Wild West or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen then you'd probably like steampunk.
 
I like steampunk.

I really liked the setting of Arcanum, a Middle Earth-style fantasy world in the middle of its industrial revolution, with electric light, aircraft, railways and guns contrasting with now 'backwards' kingdoms refusing to give up their castles, knights and wizards. Oh, and the various races (orcs, elves, gnomes) in Victorian dress. Pity the game itself was quite dull and the interface terrible.

You might also like Scarlet Traces, a sequel to The War of the Worlds where Victorians harness the technology left by the Martians.

And there's Dishonored.
 
Who exactly are "steampunks"? How are they "different" than say "ordinary punks"?
 
drphil said:
Who exactly are "steampunks"? How are they "different" than say "ordinary punks"?
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Steampunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The basic idea is... what if late 19th century technology continued to advance while retaining its aesthetics, and society likewise remained Victorian in style and culture? Things like airships, steam engines, early harnessed electricity, taken to an extreme. Things like the transistor and vacuum tube are never invented, so supercomputers are largely mechanical.

The term itself is derived from cyberpunk.

(it's also an excuse to wear waistcoats, top hats, cool jewellery and, of course, huge goggles)
 
I don't really get the whole Steampunk fandom. (Furry Fandom I get) but I support it as peoples right to free expression.. Is there a music genre that goes along with it. I don't see how you could have a steam power source for any of the devices I saw via a google image search. you need a water source, heat source, and fuel source. none of which could be made small enough to fit on a person
 
There is apparently music, yes. I'm at work so I can't really look it up.

As for devices, you can make steam engines pretty small... live steam model trains can be very small, but also consider things like e-cigarettes, which have a small power source to heat water. Steampunk isn't just steam, it's also electricity and so batteries are entirely possible.

The real problem I see with a lot of the functional (in terms of the fiction) stuff is that it'd be damned heavy, all that brass and iron. That, and the constant maintenance with that many moving parts.
 
Regressing to extended past time-about 100 years when there wasn't much "electronics". Presumably the Deaf valued their "community".
Steam boats anybody?
No computers either! Better?
 
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