retroremakes
March 7th, 2010, 19:50
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_4388650889_8f7ff0514f_b.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/4388650889_8f7ff0514f_b.jpg)This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that's necessary for something to be called a Steampunk Professor X chair. Vodka cranberry dispenser? Yes. Booming Arduino/Adafruit sound effects? Sure! Working smokestack? Why, yes!
Better still, there's video of the creator tooling around a model railroad museum, confusing and fascinating bystanders with his booze-dealing contraption of wonder. And yes, builder Daniel Valdez looks like Professor X:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/340x_wrt8yruyahe.jpg
Says Valdez on some of the specifics:
What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300 Power wheelchair and a few trips to an antique store. Toss in screaming digital amped sound system, an event triggered sound processor, oh and a portable smoke machine!
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_4389419582_12c5171789.jpgIndeed. As for my thoughts on the chair, I'm just half-glad something called "steampunk" actually does...something, for once. [Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smeeon/sets/72157623016778829/) via Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/07/steampunk-professor-xavier-wheelchair-project-powered-with-an-adafruit-waveshield/) - Thanks, Philip]
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Better still, there's video of the creator tooling around a model railroad museum, confusing and fascinating bystanders with his booze-dealing contraption of wonder. And yes, builder Daniel Valdez looks like Professor X:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/340x_wrt8yruyahe.jpg
Says Valdez on some of the specifics:
What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300 Power wheelchair and a few trips to an antique store. Toss in screaming digital amped sound system, an event triggered sound processor, oh and a portable smoke machine!
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_4389419582_12c5171789.jpgIndeed. As for my thoughts on the chair, I'm just half-glad something called "steampunk" actually does...something, for once. [Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smeeon/sets/72157623016778829/) via Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/03/07/steampunk-professor-xavier-wheelchair-project-powered-with-an-adafruit-waveshield/) - Thanks, Philip]
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