{"id":305,"date":"2006-08-18T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2007-02-07T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T10:02:40","slug":"steampunk-robots-i-wei-huang-and-hi-tech-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk robots &#8211; I-Wei Huang and hi tech steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever imagined an alternative future in which steam powered remote controlled centipedes walked the streets, or a steam-powered six-wheel-drive mars rover? Well Japanese artist I-Wei Huang has not just imagined &#8211; he has built them!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image303\" alt=\"steam centipede\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/steam_centipede_icon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From a radio controlled walking robot to a trilobite steam tank to a truly amazing steam centipede, there seem to be no limits to I-Wei&#8217;s imagination &#8211; and ingenuity. His site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabfu.com\/\"><font color=\"red\">crabfu.com<\/font><\/a> is filled with his award-winning creations. Watch the videos &#8211; I love the one where his six-wheel-drive rover tows him on a skateboard \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone from a distant planet sending this to Earth!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image304\" alt=\"steam rover\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/rover_icon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A kind of Jules Verne meets Bruce Sterling &#8211; check out his site &#8211; and check out <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"I-Wei Huang's steambots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/06\/make_podcast_iwei_huangs_steam.html\">Makezine<\/a> for more of this guy&#8217;s amazing work<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever imagined an alternative future in which steam powered remote controlled centipedes walked the streets, or a steam-powered six-wheel-drive mars rover? Well Japanese artist I-Wei Huang has not just imagined &#8211; he has built them! From a radio controlled walking robot to a trilobite steam tank to a truly amazing steam centipede, there seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}