The EL Has Landed [Maker Update #125]
This week on Maker Update, remaking a vintage electroluminescent display, a new family of Arduino Nano boards, humans controlling humans, printing a collapsible lightsaber, a drum cube, and a look at Maker Faire Bay Area.
Whiteboard Bandit [Maker Update #124]
This week on Maker Update, a Roomba for your whiteboard, a wearable for people who talk too much, a geometric planter, Arduino for Nerf, and mashing up code with Becky Stern.
Ready Player Thumb [Maker Update #123]
This week on Maker Update, a one thumb entertainment system, using an LED matrix as a scanner, LED jewelry, and a rubber chicken powered camera slider.
Creature Feature [Maker Update #122]
This week on Maker Update, magnetic animatronics, a photo frame with a dark side, a conductive paper dragon, keyblades, a Star Trek desk, and gaming with a PyBadge.
Ornithopter Anatomy [Maker Update #121]
This week on Maker Update, an open source ornithopter, a self-solving Rubik’s cube, a farting baseball, a Pi piano light show, a Lithophane lamp, and turning wood on a table saw.
Fast Cars, Soft Bots [Maker Update #120]
This week on Maker Update, a blazing fast 3D printed RC car, soft robotics in Korea, taking pictures with an Etch A Sketch, a robot recycler, and reading your pet’s RFID.
Golden Holdies [Maker Update #119]
This week on Maker Update, a servo word clock, the 2019 Hackaday prize, a phone that only plays hold music, organizing parts with google assistant, cheap robotics, and punching holes.
Make It Snooze [Maker Update #118]
This week on Maker Update, a Star Trek themed alarm clock, Oblique Strategies, an animated GIF display, a high tech View Master, a NeoPixel corset, and a blood glucose display.
I Want My Lissajous TV [Maker Update #117]
This week on Maker Update, stop motion with Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA’s $99 AI board, Game Burgers, Lissajous Jukebox, StreetWriter, Ping Pong clock, and a laser cut turntable cabinet.
Couch Controller [Maker Update #116]
This week on Maker Update, a special episode from the show floor at the 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. We’ll take a look at some of the most interesting maker-made games from the alt.ctrl showcase, including a couch co-op game controlled by your butt.