A real Myst Book
(aka realMyst: The Book!)
by RIUM+ (Mike Ando)
Old books on a bookshelf, including the Myst book
Mysterium 2012, 4 August 2012
Who am I?
Just a crazy guy from Brisbane, Australia
(shout out to The Edge, you guys rock)

Mike Ando aka riumplus aka RIUM+ standing beside his DeLorean Mike Ando aka riumplus aka RIUM+ holding a blue laser-based lightsaber
Other Myst Projects
A mechanical D'ni clock The homepage of the Riven Journals
A Riven dagger crystal keyring

Why build a Myst book?

* No one's done it properly
* I like a challenge
* It'd be AWESOME

Finding parts was HARD

The book's identity...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Volume 54, Issue 312
December 1876 to May 1877
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 54, Issue 312, December 1876 to May 1877

Multiple Harper's Myst books

Restoring the book

Shout out to Ian Bates of Sage Old Books
A book with the middle hollowed out

The Myst font isn't consistent
Varying examples of the Myst font
My final version
The final stamping die versions I used on the book

One more thing...

Bring me the pages
A white page, blue page, and red interior cover of the book

Turning it on...

Shrinking a whole computer
Shrinking computer parts - a tiny miniaturised power supply, cutting a USB cable's head down to have more room, a tiny audio cable, and a back-to-back VGA adaptor
The motherboard

Tiny motherboard front tiny motherboard rear
Displaying everything
The replica real Myst book open to the front page, showing the linking panel open to Myst Island's dock
Powering the book
A hand-sized lithium battery
Heat


Thermal cemera view of the back of the motherboard thermal camera view of the front of the motherboard
The speakers


Speakers inside the Myst book Speaker grill visible in the front of the book
Assembling it all
Myst book interior without the motherboard in place Myst book interior with the motherboard in place
So that's it!
Myst book front cover, closed

Any questions?

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