Steven Smethurst
Artist · Maker · Hacker · Vancouver, BC

About Steven Smethurst

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Steven Smethurst, and I live two lives. By day I'm a CTO at Chipkin Automation Systems, teaching stubborn machines to talk to each other. By night I'm a Artist, Maker, Hacker, and all-around tinkerer who can't leave a good idea alone.

When I'm not beep-booping at the day job, you might find me 🌳 visiting every park in Vancouver, making a deck of cards with birds photos, PCB design, papercraft, Stained Glass, Maps, Board Games,Segment Displays, Lasers and kaleidoscopes, and basically anything that glows. See what I'm currently working on.

 

I've been keeping a blog since 2001, and I post works-in-progress over on Instagram. Come say hi!

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Events and Art in Vancouver

Where to find art and events in Vancouver, last updated September 2026

#Art#Vancouver#Journal#Maps
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Vancouver SkyTrain PCB v3 - generated from real geography

The third redesign of the Vancouver SkyTrain PCB, built from real map data instead of hand-drawn artwork

#PCB#KiCad#JLCPCB#WS2812#Code#Maps
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Mixxtape - a cassette you can actually record on

A cassette-shaped PCB, sized to fit a real Norelco case, that actually records

#PCB#ESP32#KiCad#JLCPCB#WS2812#Bluetooth
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