Visors Down [Maker Update #139]
This week on Maker Update, a 3D printed Starman helmet, a beating heart, an Adabot solder helper, a disco band camp jacket, emulating Magic Cap, and an early look at BrainCraft.
Jon-A-Tron’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet
Occasionally there are projects that hang at the top of my “someday” list and refuse to budge, nagging me until I tackle them. Jonathan (Jon-A-Tron) Odom’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet project on Instructables is one of these projects.
When I started Maker Project Lab, the whole idea was that I was going to be rebuilding, evaluating, and elevating awesome projects that makers have shared online. It’s a process that was part of my job as a Projects Editor at Make: magazine, and it seemed like a cool thing I could continue doing. I mean, isn’t that part of what the Maker Movement is all about — sharing what you’ve done and inspiring people to build their own version and take it someplace new?
Needless to say, if you’ve been following this blog, you know that I got wonderfully sidetracked by making my own weekly show and reviewing tools. What little spare time I have left for actually making my own projects is typically sucked in to paid original project content, or personal projects for which a lot of the appeal is selfishly chipping away at something that’s just for me.
Lasers to 11 [Maker Update #138]
This week on Maker Update, an upright laser harp, Sphero gobbles up LittleBits, reeling kite string, wiggly antennas, and designing for burning man.
Hocus-Pocus [Maker Update #137]
This week on Maker Update, dueling wands, robots without the wiggle, Chirp, Scratch, a Marquee sign for your room, homeschool imagineering, hacking heat shrink, and finishing with graphite.
Fading Triangles [Maker Update #136]
This week on Maker Update, adding nuance to your LED projects, Teensy 4.0, machine learning for knitting, hello drinkbot, AI wearables, and toy hacking.
Fly-By [Maker Update #135]
This week on Maker Update, a cable robot, adhesive wearables, crankies, morality tickets, dueling hummingbirds, and a 3D printer that runs on MDF.
Flip-Out [Maker Update #134 – Adafruit Edition]
This week on Maker Update, a flip-out mic for your machine learning pocket project, a shark mask that moves when you talk, a light-up sound board, adding Neopixels to a backpack, and the Circuit Playground Proto Gizmo.
Shaken, Not Stirred [Maker Update #133]
This week on Maker Update, a morphing orb, a Pi TV wall, Apollo 11 projects, 3D printed lock picking, and an Arduino irrigator.
Instant Replay [Maker Update #132]
This week on Maker Update, a Nintendo made from wood, painting with Skittles, a photochromic clock, a camera that looks into the past with an instant replay, and a cabinet for curing 3D prints.