Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk

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Crabfu Steamworks

Any steam jockey worth his brass goggles knows I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu Steamworks. On a seemingly monthly basis, I-Wei -- a professional 3-D animator by day -- cranks out some new steam-powered robot or vehicle. If he keeps it up, he'll model every possible means of locomotion. So far, he's built steam-powered walkers, rollers, treaded tanks, even centipedes, with dozens of undulating metal legs. Here he shows off his R2S2 (R2 Steam2), which even sports a needle gauge readout on its head showing boiler pressure.

Photo: I-Wei Huang

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