This week on Maker Update: an instrument that rules, street music, a mouse that raves, and a couple new boards worth knowing about.

This week on Maker Update: a stick chopper for your chopsticks, an AI duck that sings, a Tamagotchi that dies when you doomscroll, and an RC bike that keeps its balance.

This week on Maker Update: a tall desk to help your brain, the World Cup for spider bots, Jack-o-Lanterns to last the season, and making LEDs the hard way.

This week on Maker Update: a Cyberpunk servo mask, retro computing for prizes, designing dragons, and Formula 1 on a dress.

This week on Maker Update: an e-ink computer to track your projects, a notifier for your online shops, a spooky lantern, and maybe the best WLED controller for hub75 matrices.

This week on Maker Update: a box for translating conversations offline, a dress for translating movement into light, a clock for translating light into time, and a toy for translating your voice into gibberish.

This week on Maker Update: your phone as a pet, your grandpa in a fish, engineering with air, and a box for your digital footprint.

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.