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Steven Smethurst is a Vancouver based maker, hacker, and installation artist. Some of my most recent writings: Ongoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th, PCB Tips and Tricks, 2024 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews, 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