This week on Maker Update: a flight sim chair that works with real or virtual planes, Hackaday’s Pet Hacks Contest, an Arduino rocket launchpad, and a boombox that takes floppies.

+Show Notes [Maker Update Ep.430]+

=Project of the Week=

Building a Real Life Flight Simulator. Pt 3 by Michael Rechtin 0:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4LNMgQ559E
https://github.com/MichaelRechtin/MotionSim

=News=

Announcing The Hackaday Pet Hacks Contest 2:43
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/15/announcing-the-hackaday-pet-hacks-contest/

=More Projects=

A Homemade Launchpad for Compressed Air-Powered Rockets by Aiden Wyandt 3:21
https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1jt4qhk/arduino_r4_paper_rocket_launcher/
https://github.com/AidenW-Git/ArduinoRocketBox

MIDI BLASTER: The Floppy Disk MIDI file Boombox by Luke The Maker 4:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCz7ZYpM4dQ

Files and Documentation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/midi-blaster-v1-126826036

=Tips & Tools=

How To Reverse Engineer Anything Even If You Don’t Have One! by Jeremy Fielding 5:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXRSt3asv0w

ABENICS – The Cross Spherical Gear by Robert Murray-Smith 5:48
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6993829

Unusual Shop Tips Dan Gelbart 6:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZjjActWmQ

=DigiKey Spotlight=

How to Source Tariffed & Non-Tariffed Items on DigiKey by Adafruit Industries 7:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-eD6FSM0bU