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2026-March Brain Dump

Bookmarks from March 2026

Glitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4

CounterProductive downtime between June 28-July 4

Ongoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th

A status update of the Counter productive, Sky Pixles projects

Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector

Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building

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 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

Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster

Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs

Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism

Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time

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 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 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture

Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive

Idea 025 - Skull card game

Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game

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 personalized AI virtual assistant on your own data

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 family, for them to send onwards

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.

Samsung The Frame TV art

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The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth

Simple acrylic pendants

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