retro steampunk electronics & accessories
unique
hand-built
retro steampunk electronics & accessories to enjoy and use every day
Retro Gear Laboratories makes unique hand-built retro steampunk electronics, accessories and home décor, including clocks, lights, chargers, computer monitors and more to enjoy and use every day.
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Currently Sold Out
What Our Customers Are Saying:
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"Beautiful craftsmanship, well made, well packaged"
“Beautiful work, they kept me informed every step of the process. A+++”
“Steam Computometer looks absolutely amazing and the way it works is fun to watch.”
Our Products
Vintage
Industrial
- Natural materials
- Eco-friendly finish
- Low power
- Built in the USA
- US and global parts
- US support
- Cool designs
- Completely unique
- Advanced technology
All Products Feature:
Retro Gear Laboratory products are individually hand built in the United States of America using high quality components with careful attention to detail.
Retro Gear Laboratories conceives, designs and builds all their own unique products. You won't find anything else like them anywhere.
People
Iain Gellatly is an engineer and inventor by training. He also has an eye and passion for the look, robust quality and inventive style of the Victorian era. Iain has built a small team of specialists to help him, but is still responsible for making things perfect for every customer.
Start
Retro Gear Laboratories got started finding new and unique ways to merge the look and feel of old school inventions and steampunk design with new microprocessor, networking and sensor technologies. Make beautiful things to enjoy that also work and perform useful functions.
Experiment
Every product starts with days of intense brain storming and idea sharing, followed by weeks of research, incorporating new technologies, running lots and lots of experiments, making lots of mistakes, reworking designs and more until people say "wow, that's so cool".
Design
Retro Gear Laboratories embraces open source computing and the collaborative, creative spirit of the Maker Movement. Sharing is good. Products are developed using open source hardware, graphic tools and programming environments.
Value
The finish products are totally unique, functional and a pleasure to own and interact with. True conversation pieces. We love the feedback we get, along with all the great ideas for future products.. Keep them coming.
