A Blue Star

Added /now and /uses pages, moved old /about content to a /timeline page, and made /about the new home page.

Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.

A 2024 snapshot of the software, hardware, camera gear, and shop tools I use day to day.

2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews

Plans for a Gulf Islands lavender farm with distillery, beehives, chickens, and a hillside field for retirement.

Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year

GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world

A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods

Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up

A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk

Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building

All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut

Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order

A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms

Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools

Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life

Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs

A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.

A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope

A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted

Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things

Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC

A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower

A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass

A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia

Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score

A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust

Citizen science water quality monitoring device

Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network

Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes

Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city

A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network

An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth

Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs

A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs

Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion

Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time

All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything

Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet

End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death

Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix

A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations

A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound

A generated a social media platform for trees in a city

A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival

Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince

Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland

A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, built and shared on a steady schedule.

A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics