#Birds
18 postsGame Idea 28 - Bird Hunt (Theme: Lens or eye piece or sight)
A Duck Hunt style browser game about the frustration of photographing small songbirds through a telephoto lens.
Read postIdea 099 - Stevens projects club
A Patreon subscription where members receive one of Steven's small hardware projects twice a year.
Read postIdea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Where's Waldo style search book for each region where a wren in a striped bobble hat hides among local birds.
Read postIdea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A festival mesh network of birdhouses that pass messages to each other with ultrasonic bird chirps.
Read postIdea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
A Furby-style robotic toy that uses ChatGPT and text to speech to tell interactive stories that children steer with three buttons.
Read postIdea 066 - Tilt Pacman
A one-pixel Pac-Man on an RGB LED matrix, steered by tilting an accelerometer.
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, made and shared on a steady schedule.
Read postIdea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Idea: birdhouses that double as cryptographic puzzles for humans to solve.
Read postIdea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
Idea: a series of postcards mailed in packs to friends and family, who send them onward to reconnect people.
Read postIdea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
Idea: a free portrait photo booth in a park during cherry blossom season, as practice for portrait photography with consenting strangers.
Read postYear in review 2022
Year in review 2022: Lori moving in, painting the townhouse, cherry blossoms, a CBC interview about the bird cards, travel, and fostering a puppy.
Read postFlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Post mortem from showing the Flocking AI bird gallery at Maker Labs during Eastside Culture Crawl 2022: the wall layout, what people said, and what to fix.
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Year in review 2021
Year in review 2021: 31,893 bird photos, 363 species, moving from Vancouver to Burnaby, and a year of working from home stats.
Read postBirding in Vancouver
Beginner birding resources for Vancouver: intro videos, local birding sites, and notes from making the Birds of Play card deck.
Read postCurrent tools and equipment (2021)
The software, gadgets and gear Steven uses day to day in 2021, and what changed since 2018 after the move to working from home.
Read postFebruary 2021 brain dump
February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.
Read postVHS raven cache
A first geocache, a magnetic waterproof box hidden in a crow-mural alley near the Vancouver Hackspace.
Read post5 Favorite Childhood Cartoons
My five favourite childhood cartoons: Tom & Jerry, Tiny Toon Adventures, DuckTales, Pinky and the Brain, Darkwing Duck.
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