This week on Maker Update: bringing your own baby Wall-E to life, Hackaday’s Op Amp challenge, a new twist on the video synthesizer, and adding animations to backlit panels.

This week on Maker Update: vintage gaming for your tree, a snowflake made from LED noodles, making for fun, and the Alpakka open source gamepad.

This week on Maker Update: a plastic excreting art bot, DiResta’s mini morbid mobile, glowing jewelry, invisible ink, and 3D printed repairs.

This week on Maker Update, from zero to robot arm, the return of the Hackaday Supercon, a 3d printed sewing machine, rolling tape measures, repairing threads, and printing glass on your FDM printer.

This week on Maker Update, shooting for the Moon, Honda says “Don’t Copy that Cupholder”, the future of kitchen timers, sugar glass, melted PCBs, and making time to organize.

This week on Maker Update, a hover board for witches, lasercut zodiak, a starburst display, thread plotting, wobbling oloids, and interactive trees.

This week on Maker Update, a sand plotter, making masks, motion activated bird calls, cutting the lights, an LED repair kit, wiring Dupont connectors, and a less lazy susan.

This week on Maker Update, crowdsourcing hospital equipment repair, lessons from Josef Prusa’s medical shield manufacturing, and the games we never got to play at Alt.Ctrl GDC.

Tools:

CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter
http://amzn.to/2yOt9IB

Fiber Fix
http://amzn.to/2kwhGHH

Tool:

FiberFix 2″ Repair Tape Wrap
http://amzn.to/2ymCJ4P

Transcript:

It’s time for another Cool Tools review. I’m going to take a look at Fiber Fix. I picked this up on Amazon for around $8, and if you’re into it, using the link in the description helps to support my show and the Cool Tools blog.