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[challenge entry] Mngggg

PLEASE someone helpfully inform me that this has nothing to do with the challenge.

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(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:03, archived)
# THIS HSA NOTTING TO DO WITH THE CLUNGE
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:04, archived)
# FASCITS
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:05, archived)
# FAST TITS
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:39, archived)
# THahs Hot Nottingham Dodo Wiper Expunge
And
Steampunk

what the fuck is this bullshit?
I can understand the steam part of steampunk, old things running off steam? punk though… whats punk about it? certainly not dressing up in old Victorian clothes, or attaching non functional brass/leather/gears/pipes/dials on everything

I almost understood this stuff back in the deeps of time when I read Sterling/Gibson's The Difference Engine. I mean, it was never that cool, putting pipes and gears into my sleek chromed technology, but Gibson at least made it seem semi-interesting. But this shit just goes way too far now. Yo dawg, we herd you like steampunk in your steampunk. Steampunk watches? Steampunk steam engines? Just stupid shit.

haha

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(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:11, archived)
# As far as I can tell it's like glitter in kids school crafts.
Glue a few gears on your pencil case and grin madly while you soil knickers.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:29, archived)
# glitter in kids?
Wouldn't be the first time.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:31, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/9662622
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:32, archived)
# I just googled for steampunk is shit
:D

actually if someone makes a real steam powered thing I'll be fucking impressed

where's my steampowered airship, you cads!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:31, archived)
# I, and a friend, had a strange idea to make a victorian era synthesizer/electronic organ one evening.
Take a treadle sowing machine and connect permanent magnets discs that spin
inside lowered coils of wire connected to paper horns. One for each key/note.
Sort of like a glass harmonium, but using the electro generative effect.

We figured it would sound stupid and horrid enough to fit the steampunk ethos.
No reason you couldn't use a small steam engine to power it instead of foot power.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:40, archived)
# Whoooooooshing good idea !
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:54, archived)
# how about
a steam driven shaft

with cogs on it that have magnets at what effectively becomes harmonic intervals

you'd have some sort of arrangement of keys that would either enable the magnetic pulses to be output to a speaker

thus, an steam powered electric musical instrument would be created

edit: infact, have both, for that full on Dr Phibes experience :D

(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:57, archived)
# Hook the steam up to the blower on this thing . . . maybe even put some bubble solution in it !
pipedreams.publicradio.org/articles/how_a_pipe_organ_works/images/how_a_pipe_organ_works.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:03, archived)
# but we want electro mechanical though
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:05, archived)
# Back to the drawing board . . . YO TESLA !
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:12, archived)
# That's the idea, yeah.
I thought about it later and realized that the magnets could be in fixed discs and
the key, when pressed, brings a second interrupting disc between that makes
the connection to the drive shaft. Magnets could be set in the disc at right angle
to the spindle axle and the coils would be fixed around the axle beside the
magnet disc. Reduces the actuated parts to little tandem wheels in the key
end. Big O drive shaft, little o upper magnet disc, and the keyed disc.

 oO
  o___v
       ^
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:12, archived)
# I'm not a mechanical person (you might have guessed)
but it could be a funny instrument to make

and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:15, archived)
# It had also occurred to me that you could make a modern powered version.
Small beads of steel in plastic discs, same actuating method, but use
standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.

edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:28, archived)
# fuck duh...
guitar

OF COURSE!

this simply didn't occur to me

oh..

multiple guitar/violin type instruments

ahhh yeah
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 3:32, archived)
# how will stop the visions!
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:30, archived)
# well..
All right, a truck driver walks into a bar.

A hooker cozies up to the truck driver and stands up and says "For a quarter I'll do anything you want, as many times as you want." The truck driver says "Where's the bathroom?" The bartender says "We don't see many truck drivers in here."

The truck driver shouts "What? They sold me a chihuahua?"
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:32, archived)
# needs more steampunnk
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:32, archived)
# My coal powered watch was a great idea
until I realised I could get more power from the radiation emitting from it.

Imagine the consternation when peoples arms exploded in a nuclear fireball!

AH-HA HA!!! Back to the drawing board!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:34, archived)
# pffft!
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:37, archived)
# Have another bar joke!
So this string walks into a bar. The bartender says "We don't see many strings in here." The string says "I'll bet anyone a hundred bucks I can grant three wishes to the next person who walks through that door!" The bartender stands up and says "See that hooker over there? If you recite the Carmina Burana from memory that hooker will take you home and make love to you all night."

The string tosses back a gin and tonic and says "Moo."
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:38, archived)
#
You're really quite odd, aren't you?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:55, archived)
# You can't beat a good bar joke
Okay, so a blonde walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey. Why don't you get up on the bar and do the Hokey-Pokey?" The blonde says "I'd love to do anything you want, as many times as you want." A monkey pounds on the bar and yells "I'm gonna do the mattress Macarena with you all night long!"

The blonde holds the monkey over her tequila shot and yells "Spit it out you bastard!"
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:59, archived)
# This is enjoyable
And I appreciate that your ending sentence is exactly the same width as your picture.
(I helped save b3ta! zeltergiset, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:04, archived)
# IT'S TIME FOR A PURGE
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:06, archived)
# THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENIGMA
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:07, archived)
# Won't be me.
I often point out to them that the Victorians invented
steampunkery, so revisiting it is redundant as fuck.

Actually, the ancient Greeks did. But if you tell them
that they cry and start cutting themselves like emos.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:06, archived)
# Those crazy steam filled ancient geek hero dudes!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:14, archived)
# DID YOU EVEN BOTHER TO READ THE CHALLENGE!?!!?!?!
(I helped save b3ta! JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:07, archived)
# That's the spirit.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:08, archived)
#


(I helped save b3ta! NeeNoo, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:09, archived)
# Haha bloody hell
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:10, archived)
# Hahahahaha
that's fantastic :)
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:12, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:35, archived)
# I HATE YOU
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:09, archived)
# It's only fair.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:12, archived)
# Something about mongs
That's a bloody luvvly thing you've created there mister, hats off to you.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:10, archived)
[challenge entry] Old ones
(nraphael, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:34, archived)
# HAHA!
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:36, archived)