@Skytee made this gorgeous, Arduino-powered steampunk bandwidth gauge based on a
similar project by Tom Igoe from
Make Magazine: "I needed a linear scale from 0 through 100, saying Mbps, thus making it a TorrentMeter. I chose the logo of Dingfabrik as manufacturer logo, since that is where @PylonC and I disassembled the voltmeter when it arrived in the mail. And I needed it to look as old as the original, so I stained it. To do so, I just took a clean baking tray, filled it with black tea and slowly shoved in a sheet of paper sideways. That's rather important to avoid having bubbles under the sheet, thus creating an even stain."
TorrentMeter - A steampunk bandwidth meter
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But but but but DIN Condensed was designed in the mid 90s!
I so see this over a friend’s desk while he’s uploading his latest podcast…
Love it !
Steampunk = new mercy hump
Oh. Mygod. Mere words fail. Want with the intensity of a thousand white hot suns.
100 Mbps? I guess he’s not from the USA.
Very cool, although I might term the measurements as browses per minutes (bpm) or metric w00ts.
It’s quite beautiful, but I don’t really understand what constitutes steampunk anymore. Is it steampunk just because it applies a Victorian aesthetic to modern technology, even though all they did was apply a fairly standard-looking old gauge design to a different measurement? Add some superfluous cogs and a non-functioning piston and it’s steampunk. This is just Victorian. Or am I completely off-base?
It would be cool if it went to 11. Or 110.
Totally agree. “Brass internet speed gauge” would have totally sold me. But Nooooooooooo it’s gotta be STEAMPUNK gauge.