This week on Maker Update: adding a haptic kick to virtual reality, Arduino 2.0, a rotary cell phone to call your own, hardscrabble keyboards, rolling the dice, and better toast from machine learning.

This week on a special SiliCon edition of Maker Update a face-detecting shoulder robot friend, Victorian dress, a noisy cricket, R2 junior, wearable Gundam, walking with Wall-E, and a glove from 3D printed fabric.

This Bernz-O-Matic Micro Flame Torch kit sells for $30 (here it is on Amazon), which isn’t cheap for a butane torch, but let me show you why this one is special.

This week on Maker Update, lights that synchronize with your heartbeat, a $30 synthesizer kit, cardboard pinball, modified NERF guns, heat shrink, Pi shims, and a good, fast wood finish.

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