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Steven Smethurst is a Vancouver based maker, hacker, and installation artist. Some of my most recent writings: Glitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4, Ongoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th, PCB Tips and Tricks, You can find out more about my blog posts here.Projects
(2025) Skypixels
Snapshot of the sky
(2025) Counterproductive
A big button in a park
(2024) PCB Metro Maps
A Metro map made with PCBs
(2023) Skull Game PCB
Skull Card Game designed with PCBs
(2023) 100 ideas
100 project ideas, a new one each day.
(2022) Monthly Habit Tracker
A monthly habit tracker inspired by Simone Giertz “The Every Day Calendar”
(2022) Flocking AI
Generating bird images from Mid Journey
(2021) Lighthouse Liquor Cabinet
Converting a Lighthouse Redemption Machine into a liquor and glassware cabinet
(2021) Vancouver Bird playing Cards
A deck of playing cards featuring photos of birds from around Vancouver
(2020) Vancouver City Parks
Visted every Vancouver city park during COVID-19 for a selfie
(2020) Tender Threads 2
Short movie about the feelings of a puppet
(2019) Illuminated Stained Glass Tetragonal Trapezohedron
Illuminated Stained Glass Tetragonal Trapezohedron sculpture
(2019) Illuminated Stained Glass Sixteen Segment Display
Illuminated Stained Glass Sixteen Segment Display
(2018) Stained Glass Windows
A series of hexagon stainglass
(2017) Thunderstorm Cloud
A interactive lamp that mimics thunderstorm cloud.
(2017) LED Pillar
A game using a single strip of LEDs as a display. Made for Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2017
(2017) Laser Kaleidoscope
Moving lasers which generate twisting fractal shapes
(2017) Fairmont Pacific Rim Bike Carousel
A custom electric bike carousel installed at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel downtown Vancouver.
(2017) Asics Color Changing Cloud Project.
A series of color changing clouds for Asics New York popup shop.
(2016) Map of Intersting Places
A constantly updated map of interesting places from around the world
(2016) Heart of Mount Pleasant
Origami style hearts hanging from a tree in the Heart of Mount Pleasant.
(2016) Branchy Light Box
Laser cut silhouette of branches in a tree, illuminated with color changing LEDs
(2016) Blinky the Fox Head Mask
A low polygon fox head mask with an array of LEDS create patterns on the faces.
(2016) Ball of Life.
A Wooden icosahedron with LEDs used for festivals as a marker
(2016) CNC Zen Garden
A Zen garden controlled by a CNC XY platform.
(2015) Pocket Universe
Mirroed dome
(2015) The 100 Day Project
A series of single day projects.
(2014) Thread Map of Vancouver
Laser cut map of vancouver with GPS heat map of a years worth of travel.
(2014) The Giant Claw Game!
A large claw game made for Vancouver Maker Faire 2014