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33 postsPCB Tips and Tricks
A few tools I keep coming back to when making PCBs: EasyEDA2Kicad, Gingerbread, and KiKit.
Read postTetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Read postPCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Read postDodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Read postDodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
Read post100 ideas project retrospective (2023)
Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.
Read postIdea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Read postIdea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Read postIdea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Read postIdea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Read postIdea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Read postIdea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, built and shared on a steady schedule.
Read postIdea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Read postIdea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Read postIdea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Read postIdea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Read postIdea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Read postIdea 028 - Finite Future Clock
An A2 LED panel that shows a progress bar of how much of your life has passed and how much time is left.
Read postIdea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Read postIdea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Read postIdea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Read postIdea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An ear-shaped electronic badge that records speech to text 24 hours a day using OpenAI Whisper, feeding a personal AI assistant.
Read postIdea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Read postIdea 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.
Read postIdea 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
Read postIdea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.
Read postIdea 002 - Keyboard Flute
An electronic flute PCB the size of a ruler with hot-swappable keyboard switches, a MEMS mic for breath control, and an ESP32.
Read postYear in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
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