This week on Maker Update: kicking whole grain into high gear, 1-D fireworks three different ways, a game with 1000 LEDs, and a one-handed solder solution.

This week on Maker Update we’re at the Game Developers Conference covering the awesomely weird, maker-made games of Alt CTRL.

This week on Maker Update: bikes made weird, the infinite text adventure, a 3d printed router lifter, the Arduino Giga, counting screws, and 3d printers for $34 dollars.

This month on the Adafruit edition of Maker Update: a beacon for lost keys, a peek inside Adabox 15, spooky pianos, gaming with neopixels, more pins per pin, and a single purpose keyboard.

This month on Maker Update, rolling your own slot machine, a robot pal, a mask that doesn’t hide your face, a brake light for your bicycle, and building your first game in circuit python.

Tool:

Makey Makey Kit
https://amzn.to/2JzJ7It

Scratch Games for Makey Makey
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=makey+makey

Google Offline T-Rex Game
https://apps.thecodepost.org/trex/trex.html

Disco is Dead game
https://thirdfloorgames.wixsite.com/discoisdead

MakeyMakey Project Gallery
https://labz.makeymakey.com/remixes

Transcript:

It’s time for another Cool Tool review. This time, I’m going to show you guys the Makey Makey kit. This runs for around $50 on Amazon and it allows you quickly interact with your computer using everyday objects. If you want to pick one up, using the Amazon link in the description helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.

This week on Maker Update, an Arduino snowflake, a hands-free cookie dispenser, building a big telescope, networked nightlights, budget robots, and the gamification of your couch.

This week on Maker Update, a steering wheel for your Xbox controller, a new tax on filament, Adafruit reinvents the MEGA, two new 3D printed r/c boat designs, robot operation, a LEGO battery pack, a project board for Halloween, and drilling at a right-angle.

This week on Maker Update, a soap-vomiting unicorn, two new boards from Arduino, a mini marblevator, a neopixel thumb war, pool noodle box bots, gendered razor holders, Lego pinball, an Android tape deck, a business card stylophone, Hobart’s entry level MIG welder, the Voronator, and the Adafruit Crickit. This week’s Cool Tool is the Hobart Handler 140 MIG Welder.

This week on Maker Update, a MIDI compatible music box, alternative controller indie games at GDC, an Arduino for your knife, controlling your computer with zombie heads, free game developer software, and Hackspace issue 5. This week’s Cool Tool is the Makey Makey Kit.