This week on Maker Update: writing a novel the hard way, a camera to get you kicked off of Instagram, a modern go kart in period attire and 3d printing for astrophotography.

This week on Maker Update we’re at Open Sauce 2026 checking out a T-Shirt Cannon you can ride on, a robot for your Boba, glowing moiré, and a chicken gimbal without the chicken.

This week on Maker Update: speak friend and enter, a great big project about one of the smallest city states, a robot to detect robots, and casting your own RC tires.

This week on Maker Update: an LED synthesizer, desktop time travel, a new perspective on a ball-balancing platform, and Le Spatula 3000.

This week on Maker Update: a world in the palm of your hand, Modulinos for motors, a brass helicopter, and a wooden rocket.

This week on Maker Update: pawn takes… a walk?, a manual controlled pick & place machine, a brain you can program, and wearing your 3d prints.

This week on Maker Update: games made just for you, AI robots without the code, screen addiction as a toy, and an offline AI chat that runs on human power.

This week on Maker Update, a plasma-brained pet robot, keeping cool with cryogenics, a miniature recreation of Terminator 2, and hosting your own software to cut the cord on big tech.

This week on Maker Update: antique GPS, a burly chandelier, a neural-networked cyber pet, and a shaky little pocket plotter.