{"id":144405,"date":"2022-08-19T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-2"},"modified":"2022-08-19T03:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:23:39","slug":"retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-2","title":{"rendered":"Retro-Futuristic-Steampunk Technologies (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eejournal.com\/article\/retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a> of this who-knows-how-many-parts-there-will-be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eejournal.com\/article\/retro-futuristic-steampunk-technologies-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" Technologies<\/i><\/a> mini-series, we focused on one of my favorite display technologies in the form of Nixie tubes. We also featured a photograph showing the main control room of an abandoned power plant in Hungary that\u2014much like your humble narrator\u2014was simply oozing with style.<\/p>\n<p>In that photograph, you may have spotted another of my favorite display technologies\u2014vintage analog meters\u2014which I typically acquire at Hamfests and electronic flea markets. I really like the look and feel of these little beauties so long as they are of a certain age, thereby bestowing an air of gravitas upon the occasion of their use.<\/p>\n<p>One of my ongoing hobby projects is what I call my Vetinari Clock, which is named after one of the characters from Terry Pratchett\u2019s Discworld series. Lord Havelock Vetinari, who is the Lord Patrician in charge of the city-state of Ankh-Morpork, has a strange clock in his waiting-room. While it does keep completely accurate time overall, it sometimes ticks and tocks out of sync (for example, \u201ctick, tock \u2026 ticktocktick, tock \u2026\u201d) and it occasionally misses a \u2018tick\u2019 or a \u2018tock\u2019 altogether. As a result, by the time Lord Vetinari\u2019s visitors are finally granted an audience, their nerves are already frayed and frazzled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 1 of this who-knows-how-many-parts-there-will-be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}