Steven Smethurst

Elements by Gunilla Klingberg (2024) 📍 Gilmore Place, Burnaby, BC

Elements by Gunilla Klingberg (2024) 📍 Gilmore Place, Burnaby, BC

Elements by Gunilla Klingberg (2024) 📍 Gilmore Place, Burnaby, BC

Elements by Gunilla Klingberg (2024) 📍 Gilmore Place, Burnaby, BC

A rotating pattern of elemental symbols that changes with your perspective, blending architecture, environment, and movement into one experience.

#art #PublicArt #BurnabyArt #contemporaryart

Crossroads by Julian Yi-Zhong Hou (2021) 📍 Burnaby, Canada

A stained glass triptych inspired by 1990s youth culture. The panels move from meditation to dance to collectivity, with crows symbolizing transformation and shared consciousness.

#art #PublicArt #BurnabyArt #stainedglass

Another mega presser event
The top three mega presser sessions 567 + 190 + 701 = 1458 of a total of 4675 button. In other words the top three times accounts for 31% of all button presses
Full stats blog.abluestar.com/other/counte... of the CounterProductive project blog.abluestar.com/projects/202...

(2025) The Medallion Hunt Hunt and seek game for Burnaby BC

A project that I did this summer. I hid medallions all over the city. When people found and scanned the medallions they unlocked a 50 chapter short story about a world where people could talk to mammals

Project notes
blog.abluestar.com/projects/202...

#art #artprojects #interactiveArt

I got my SAO boards in for #SuperCon. I didn't leave enough time for revisions, so bodge wire is required. I'm just relieved it's fixable. Since SuperCon starts on Halloween this year, the "SAOuija" is nicely thematic. Still working on code to make messages settable through I2C or push buttons.

Where would you hang a TV in that layout? in the dinning "room"?

at://2048 2048 on the AT Protocol. Your games, your data, your AT Protocol.

I just scored 6,208 on a game of at://2048 with a starting seed of 4144613765. Think you can do better with this exact same seed? Try it out here 2048.blue/seed/4144613... @2048.blue

Build a Piranha Plant themed camera using a Raspberry Pi 5 learn.adafruit.com/piranha-pi-cam #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/WBJ08su91dg

I have added a nifty live stats page to this project so that people can see the current status.
blog.abluestar.com/other/counte...

I am guessing that the strata will ask me to take it down, or it will get stolen in the night.

I am worried that the exposed wires will make people think its a bomb. I changed the button from red (Danger) to green (Alive) to help reduce that chance.

So far its lasted 3 days and 190 button presses

Poll: What will be the ultimate demise of this project?

-😒 Strata will take it down
-👮 Police will think its a bomb 💣
-💸 Thief will take it
-⛓️‍💥 Smashed/Damaged by someone
-⌛Countdown will end because no one pushes the button
-🤖 Other technical reason

How long do you think it will last?

#art #poll

This was inspired by Reddit's 2015 April Fools project "The Button".

An online meta-game and social experiment that featured an online button and 60-second countdown timer that would reset each time the button was pressed.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_But...
#reddit #projects #Art

Counterproductive - Is an art project and a social experiment.

- Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer
- If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and will be removed
- To keep this project alive—Press the button

blog.abluestar.com/projects/202...

#art #projects #button

Pogo Pins on a rotating surface
www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCir...

I have always wanted to make a PCB version of the WW2 Enigma Machine, with rotating replicable disks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_...

I wonder if you could do it with these Pogo Pins?

#pcb #eletronics #cipher #projects

Ross Chastain floored it against the wall to advance to the title race 😱 (via NASCAR/NBC Sports) YouTube video by ESPN

Reminds me of this race
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQ1...

Hmm. the positions.csv generated by the Fabrication Toolkit plugin looks to be correct. 0.0 Rotation.

So is there a problem with #JLCPCB import?

GitHub - funvill/London-Underground-PCB: London-Underground-PCB map for metro London-Underground-PCB map for metro. Contribute to funvill/London-Underground-PCB development by creating an account on GitHub.

The KiCad Project files
github.com/funvill/Lond...

I used the Fabrication Toolkit plugin to generate the export for JLCPCB. Mostly for rotation and positioning

There is a bug with KiCad9
github.com/bennymeg/Fab...

My fault for not checking the Fabrication Toolkit plugin after upgrading to KiCad9

The image on the left is the DFM Analysis from JLCPCB The image on the right is KiCad files submitted to JLCPCB The image on the bottom is the actual boards, matches the DFM from JLCPCB.

London Metro PCB maps

The London Metro #PCB maps arrived.
They look so pretty, but they do not work

After some debugging with @tomkeddie.bsky.social it looks like there is an issue with exporting the CAD files from #KiCad 9.0 to #JLCPCB components got rotated in the export but are fine in KiCad

$300 Pretty paperweight

Solid on the right

As a backup, when the RP2040 is connected via USB to a PC, it enumerates as a serial terminal (115200 Baud 8-N-1). A user then could send encoded or decoded messages directly to the serial terminal instead of entering them using the rotary encoder one letter at a time.

Cipher Decoder Ring PCB Front

Cipher Decoder Ring PCB Back

New project: Cipher Decoder Ring #PCB
A modern 'decoder ring' using advanced stream #ciphers (ChaCha) github.com/funvill/ciph...

A #3DPrinted "safe" style dial will be added to the front. Stateless - The secret pass phrase and message is entered using the rotary dial. Lots of #LEDs, #RP2040 #PCBArt

Here is one from a few months ago bsky.app/profile/ablu...

Just got the PCBs for the next one.

Beautiful, I love the internal reflection

The Murderbot Diaries - Wikipedia

You might like murderbot diaries
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mur...

Or
Dennis Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

I really enjoyed "Project Hail Mary". After reading that I went and read all the rest of the stuff that he's done.

Flip-disc display - Wikipedia

Something like a flip disk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-di... it keeps its state after power is removed. A single pixel but its mechanical

Your Christmas lights are POE(power over ethernet)?

(2016) Blinky the Fox Head Mask A low polygon fox head mask with an array of LEDS create patterns on the faces.

Reminds me of a Halloween costume I made in 2016 blog.abluestar.com/projects/201...

New PCB Day. Fresh from JLCPCB.

Capacitive touch, synth, using a seeed studios Xiao board.

I have never panalized boards before. Good first impression. Considerably cheaper. 30x boards for $8 shipped.

#pcb #pcbart #projects #synth #electronics #silkscreen #jlcpcb #art