Steampunk / Cyberpunk Time Device On The Cheap

The reasons for building a time device (an all-in-one phase generator, time and space warp device, teleport, compass, etc...) are many. Perhaps you plan to party in 1929, or you need a great accessory for your Time Agent outfit. Or maybe you gotta get back to your real time in the future. Anyways, here's how to make a rather decent looking hand held device made almost entirely out of recycled junk.

Step 1 Materials

There's a number of items you'll need, I've split the list into must haves, and optional. All of this stuff I either _{^{purloined from the trash}} recycled, or had lying around.

Must Haves:

~A powder compact, this is the mainframe of the device. Sizes vary, build up a collection and choose the best (biggest, coolest) one. Clear, domed springy covers are preferable, thankfully they are the majority. _{^{If such an item doesn't turn up regularly in your garbage either a. court a female (recommended), or b. ask a friend, be sure to explain why you need her old makeup container}}

~Aluminum foil

~Floral foam, or Styrofoam, floral best (can be bought really cheap if unattainable)

~White glue and Krazy glue (gel is best, doesn't run)

~cardstock

Recommended junk (stuff you will decorate the device with):

~scrap wire

~gears (from a broken clock)

~flat marble

~odd bits of electronic junk, LED's

~an assortment of lenses pinched from a disposable camera

Tools:

~Xacto knife

~pencil/pen

~wire cutters/needle-nose pliers

Comments

[springlauncher]

somebody....anybody.........kan I get an answer?

[KentsOkay]

Hell yeah bro this idea works with just about anything.

[springlauncher]

can you use anything besides the compact?

[janmare]

This one look like that
http://mykola-kasian.com.ua/

[janmare]

here you find some steampunk cellphone
http://mykola-kasian.com.ua/

[blackchrisboy]

lol yes ima glue racist XD

[Jabbathecat]

A great look, quite adorable, however, I think we have a RAC (randomly Applied Cogs) theme here, which I would try to avoid. Great machine, though.

[KentsOkay]

Thanks!

[dscarna]

Good job! this would be a cool idea for time machine camp ;) ps. i like your wit :D

[Junkyard Dawg]

I really like this thing. If I can find them small enough, I'll take a working clock, and make the face/hand assembly into a "seprate screen", connected to the inner workings by some sort of belt/pully system. I really like this time traveler, since this instructable is just a general guideline, with details up to you. I have got to build one!

[Seleziona]

Looks awesome, maybe when i get some of the parts i'll make it! 5*

[Articas]

it's a bit more steampunk than cyberpunk and would be good if it lights up but it's still cool besides if it was steampunk i to would more likely a time bender like a thing to induce bulletime

[Foaly7]

If your a big enough nerd to figure out how to do so, you could make 2 different-colored LEDs in different parts of the device that pulse the hours & minutes of what time it is.

[KentsOkay]

For sure, I know there's a binary watch ible someplace. I just didnt feel like doing all the fiddly stuff...

[mg0930mg]

Wow! LOOK BELOW! haha. I love instructables people, a big bunch of nerds. Hehe. Anyway, Great instructable.

[gmjhowe]

i prefer the term 'geeks', no behave before we go back and take out your entire ancestry.

[GnomeMaster]

geek in the dictonary actully means circus freak (sorry for being late)

[mg0930mg]

eep....

[KentsOkay]

You prefer geek? I've always like nerd, seems to be a cut above geek...

[jillg]

i would much rather call myself a geeg than be called a nerd. and i am a geek!

[gmjhowe]

cut above? have you even read the dictionary definitions?

• nerd |nYÐd|

noun informal
a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious : one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance.
• an intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession : he single-handedly changed the Zero image of the computer nerd into one of savvy Hero.

• geek |giÐk|

noun informal
1 an unfashionable or socially inept person.
• [with adj.] a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest : a computer geek.
2 a carnival performer who does wild or disgusting acts.

[AnarchistAsian]

i do hope you aren't "a carnival performer who does wild or disgusting acts." lol

[killerjackalope]

Awww, and I've been trying to stop people call me a geek

[AnarchistAsian]

oh, you are a man of many things, killerjack...

^{ps, i've been meaning to ask you... can i just call you jack?}

[killerjackalope]

Well my name's Adam if you want to call me a name... My brother's is jack so that'd be confusing...

[AnarchistAsian]

ha ha, ok, ^{woah, ZOMG, i never knew that...}

[KentsOkay]

_{^{heck I know is last name too...}}

[AnarchistAsian]

_{^{no fair, i don't know it!}}

[killerjackalope]

What I'm Adam and he's jack

[KentsOkay]

Hah! He's my age...

[killerjackalope]

He just turned 17 methinks... but not sure...

[AnarchistAsian]

your brother has a wierd pic, lol

[killerjackalope]

In life he looks like frank Gallagher, from the show shameless...

[AnarchistAsian]

^{american iz confuzed}
and what's uhh... that stuff on his face?

[killerjackalope]

Pen, it was his last day in school... So people draw on each other...

[AnarchistAsian]

oh, and about that show??

[killerjackalope]

Which one?

[AnarchistAsian]

shameless?? frank gallgher??

[AnarchistAsian]

oooohhh!!!

[killerjackalope]

He's not on much... However it's amusing to see him on 'ibles, unfortunately he's not much of a DIY'er