Year of Ideas
103 posts100 ideas project retrospective (2023)
Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.
Read postIdea 100 - Lavender Farm
Plans for a Gulf Islands lavender farm with distillery, beehives, chickens, and a hillside field for retirement.
Read postIdea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Read postIdea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Read postIdea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Read postIdea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Read postIdea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Read postIdea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Read postIdea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Read postIdea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Read postIdea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Read postIdea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Read postIdea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Read postIdea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Read postIdea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Read postIdea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Read postIdea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Read postIdea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Read postIdea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Read postIdea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Read postIdea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Read postIdea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Read postIdea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Read postIdea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Read postIdea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Read postIdea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Read postIdea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Read postIdea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Read postIdea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Read postIdea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Read postIdea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Read postIdea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Read postIdea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Read postIdea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Read postIdea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Read postIdea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Read postIdea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Read postIdea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Read postIdea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Read postIdea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Read postIdea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Read postIdea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Read postIdea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, built and shared on a steady schedule.
Read postIdea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
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
Read postIdea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Read postIdea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tell a story
Read postIdea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Read postIdea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Read postIdea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Read postIdea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Read postIdea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Read postIdea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Read postIdea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Read postIdea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Read postIdea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Read postIdea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Read postIdea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Read postIdea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Read postIdea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Read postIdea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Read postIdea 040 - Growth Commander - Tower defense
Your incharge of mutations and creation of your army You send your army out to collect food and battle enemies Tower defense style game without towers.
Read postIdea 039 - Growth a game
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Read postIdea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Read postIdea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Read postIdea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Read postIdea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Read postIdea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Read postIdea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Read postIdea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Read postIdea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Read postIdea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
A chatbot that gives you writing prompts for daily journaling. Ask follow up questions for clarity. Builds a web of knowledge about you and gives feedback
Read postIdea 029 - SproutSwipe
Use cell phone sensors to create a filtered list of suitable plants for a space then show the plants using Augmented Reality. Dating app for plants
Read postIdea 028 - Finite Future Clock
An A2 LED panel that shows a progress bar of how much of your life has passed and how much time is left.
Read postIdea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Read postIdea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Read postIdea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Read postIdea 024 - Call to Adventure
A mystery letter is delivered filled with puzzles that need to be solved in order to give directions to a meeting place for the start of an adventure.
Read postIdea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Read postIdea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Read postIdea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Read postIdea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Read postIdea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Read postIdea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Read postIdea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Read postIdea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Read postIdea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero's journey, etc, made for kids
Read postIdea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Read postIdea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An ear-shaped electronic badge that records speech to text 24 hours a day using OpenAI Whisper, feeding a personal AI assistant.
Read postIdea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Read postIdea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Read postIdea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Read postIdea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Read postIdea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and family, for them to send onwards
Read postIdea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
A macro pad keyboard with most commonly used Emoji as key caps for quick access when you want to respond to a message with an iconography.
Read postIdea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Read postIdea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions.
Read postIdea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
Read postIdea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.
Read postIdea 002 - Keyboard Flute
An electronic flute PCB the size of a ruler with hot-swappable keyboard switches, a MEMS mic for breath control, and an ESP32.
Read postIdea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better at portrait photography.
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