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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 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 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 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 tell a story

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 a unique conversation starter and an amazing visualization of life itself

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 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 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 of each mammal and show off the series at an art show.

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 microphone and several buttons to create sound

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 at portrait photography.

Samsung The Frame TV art

Feb 2019 brain dump

Laser cut Frabjous

The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System

The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System

The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3

The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2

Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins

VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House

Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012

VHS raven cache

Tender Threads -- Bloodshots Canada 2012

The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth

Geo Caching with Wooden nickles

Simple acrylic pendants

The last batch of GeoCoins

More GeoCoins designs

More GeoCoins tests

First test of making GeoCoins with the laser cuter

Thing tracking system and GeoCaching

Look what I made - Compass table

Look what I made - Acrylic chess set

Making a Gear Heart

Crowdfund the Rygo

Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman

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