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#1 chickadee

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 12:53 AM

Steampunk Wheelchair

I know a Steampunk Wheelchair is not something 'for real' to purchase, but should anyone want to make me a steampunk manual chair, I'd be their muse.

Observe:


Found here:
http://www.adafruit....uit-waveshield/
Steampunk Wheelchair Video


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#2 dancin' johnny

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 02:20 PM

Ha Ha, Jesus!

Just add flashing wheels and you'd receive all the attention you'd ever need!

Beat that ADP.
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 02:47 PM

Priceless! :)

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Steampunk Wheelchair

A Steampunk Wheelchair is quite unique on its own, but what a creation Professor Xavia's Steampunk wheelchair has turned out to be!

Professor Xavia's initial wheelchair really didn't do very much when it was first dreamed up, but following a crazy development process, became a hovering, futuristic device. Daniel Valdez imagined what a Steampunk Wheelchair would look like in a Steampunk universe, and turned his ideas into a reality.

Valdez used a late 19th century reupholstered wooden rocking chair, and mounted it on a power wheelchair base. The whole framework was then modified and decorated with objects such as pistons from a 1930s ironworks. A custom built audio system was put into the wheelchair that includes speakers and a subwoofer, which emit different sounds depending on whether the chair is idle, turning, breaking, and so forth. I also love the multi-colored battery indicator, and while watching the video my reaction literally was "Holy sh*t, it smokes," as smoke came out of a pipe in the back.

The best part of the set-up, however, is the vodka-cranberry mix encased in the bubbling tubes attached to the back of the wheelchair that can be dispensed through the front. It even has an ice tank to keep it cold. This concoction would apparently be distributed to the steampunk X-Men when not on an important mission. I knew Professor X liked to be the life of the party, but I didn't know he liked to get his drink on so much that he had to affix a bar to his wheelchair.

The drink dispensary sort of takes the project away from the "realism" of what it should be in my mind, but I suppose there must be a dimension where Professor X can't go a minute without a vodka-cran. Perhaps Tony Stark and Professor X are two peas in a pod in the land of steampunk.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 05:55 PM

Brilliant.

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