This week on Maker Update: a holiday town controlled with your phone, robots that twist, robots that hop, a tool for flexures, and supercapacitor earrings.

This week on Maker Update: trumpets that breathe fire, a pumpkin for typing, ready to roll couches, and a picture that’s worth a thousand balloons.

I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.

This week on Maker Update: stopping to smell the abstract paintings, elevating your shop storage, bubblewrap bling bags, precise sheet metal parts, automatic wire cutting, and reverse engineering a 3D scan.

This week on Maker Update: bringing origami to life, Lego lets go of Mindstorms, taking your dragon up a notch, pedaling puppets, and waterproofing your mermaid tech.

This week on Maker Update: toast without borders, dissecting a droid, bending epoxy in the sun, wigglegrams, Lack hacks, and playing Tetris on your pumpkin.

This week on Maker Update: cranking up the light pipes, battling gourd bots, animatronics for your 12-ft skeleton, digital techniques for foam, bobblehead bots, and a teeny tiny TV.

This week on Maker Update: the stacking that never stops, reverse engineering a head mounted display, mechanical clocks, racing Roombas, making plans, and a new twist on 3d printing.

This week on Maker Update: Arduinos on the ceiling, a Cookie Monster for your home, looking out for pedestrians, barbwire wear, and turning foam board into foreheads.

This week on Maker Update: a robot to knock over your coffee, a plastic trombone powered by CircuitPython, powering your workshop with RFID, giant foam pumpkins, plastic restoration, slushcasting, and searching for hidden gems on AliExpress.