Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
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Projects
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 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
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 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
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 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
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 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
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 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 tel...
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 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.
Idea 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
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Idea 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?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 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
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 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
Idea 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
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 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.
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 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
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 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
Idea 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
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 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
Idea 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 fam...
Idea 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
Idea 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.
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Idea 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
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
Electronic Flute PCB - A product for music lovers and DIY enthusiasts alike. This PCB is designed to be a customizable electronic flute that uses a tiny mems...
Idea 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 a...
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Samsung The Frame TV art
I created a Gallery of AI/ML generated artwork for the The Samsung ‘The Frame’ TV. All the artwork in this gallery was generated by me using Mid Journey and ...
Feb 2019 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. Previous: Nov 2018, (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a know...
Laser cut Frabjous
I laser cut this object sesigned by George W. Hart as a gift for my mother for xmas this year.I got the original design from Thingiverse, made for 4mm ply wo...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
Only two weeks left to get the Claw up and running ready for Breaker Faire the Maker Faire fund raiser party. I am starting to get worried that I might not g...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
This is the second prototype of the claw. I really liked the claw design by Marc Cryan that I found on Instructables.com but I wanted it to have three prongs...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
I have been accepted in to “the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action” art show in Vancouver. The show will be at Hot Art Wet City Pop Up Gallery (752 E Broadway) o...
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
I recently went on a trip to New York for the World Maker Faire. My plan was to make a bunch of wooden nickles that resembled Geo Coins and put them in sever...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Look what I made - Compass table
This year for the Vancouver Maker Faire I build a Compass table that I found on instructables.com. I found a cheap price on 1000x compasses from alibaba.com ...
Crowdfund the Rygo
Help us create the biggest 3D print in North America, designed by Bathsheba Grossman, printed by the DShape and installed at Gropp’s Gallery of Vancouver
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
Where does this IP Address come from
A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Addre...
Ideas
Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 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
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 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
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 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
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 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
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 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 tel...
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 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.
Idea 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
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Idea 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?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 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
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 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
Idea 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
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 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.
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 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
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 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
Idea 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
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 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
Idea 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 fam...
Idea 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
Idea 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.
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Idea 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
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
Electronic Flute PCB - A product for music lovers and DIY enthusiasts alike. This PCB is designed to be a customizable electronic flute that uses a tiny mems...
Idea 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 a...
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Idea 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
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 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
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth