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Photo How-To: Build Your Own Steampunk Problem Light

By Chuck Cage

The “problem light” joke may sail right by those of you who aren’t Venture Brothers fans, but you could re-purpose this for almost any kind of stylish indicator you require. In fact, we’re thinking about making one as an “on-air” light to keep the riff-raff out while we podcast. Thankfully Patrick Kovacich posted a whole collection of photos on Flickr to show us the way.

Problem Light (Steampunk Edition) [Flickr] [via]

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 at 10:05 am and is filed under How-To, Woodworking, Electrical. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Photo How-To: Build Your Own Steampunk Problem Light”

SuperJdynamite Says:
June 25th, 2007 at 9:55 am
That. Is. Awesome.

Go Team Venture!
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Problem Light Fans, Meet The Steampunk Dell Monitor Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 11:16 am
[…] If you got a kick out of the steampunk-inspired “problem light” we posted a while back, you’ll enjoy this similar monitor mod. After ditching the boring black plastic case, this guy discovered that the whole monitor was encased in stamped sheet steel. A little metallic-gold Rustoleum plus some brown Krylon crystal color — and a lot of scavenged brass components from clocks and other stuff — yield what you see above. […]
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