This month on the Adafruit edition of Maker Update, we’re taking a look back at the five best projects from the Adafruit team in 2020, and the five best pieces of hardware.

This week on Maker Update, the toys come alive, new hardware from Evil Mad Scientist, open source mind control, LED neon goes big, and giant robot snails.

This week on Maker Update: a miniature Addams family house, a light-up guitar, fabulous masks, a superstar costume, a coloring book vase, and chocolate Pikachu.

Guest host: Sophy Wong
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This week on Maker Update, a test machine gets its groove back, the winner of the 2020 Hackaday Prize, 3d printed HOTAS, Controller teardowns, perfect circles, cutting felt with a table saw.

This week on Maker Update, Astable Exhalation, Raspberry Pi 400, FlexFrog, defextiles, and pepper’s ghost in your book nook.

This month on Maker Update, a ghost drops some candy, Matrix in a box, Fusion 360’s Monster, sorting garbage, M2 Connection and giving your Pi a voice.

This week on Maker Update, a candy-spewing pumpkin, making a wig from foam, a ghost in the circuit, and cow costumes for robots.

This week on Maker Update, woodworking for Sith lords, Simone’s dog takes a selfie, wings of steel, a wiper motor coffee grinder, and Russian crowbars.

This week on Maker Update, an attractive clock, robots on the ceiling, Micro:Bit gets an upgrade, a cylon scooter, pocket model kit, a box of life, and OLED fangs.

This week on Maker Update, the Lightswell, the $59 Jetson Nano, folding a bike, a hacker puzzle terminal, and a split head rawhide hammer.