This week on Maker Update, a privacy parasite for your virtual assistant, MakeCode Arcade, asteroid harvesting robots, a hot glue light show, spaceship control panel, a laser-cut flap cascade, grippers, fitters, and tic-tacs.

This week on Maker Update, a speech to bubbles interface, making with Cartoon Network, a hovermower, augmented origami, an optical drum machine, and circuit sculptures. 

This week on Maker Update, the slowest video player ever made, a 5-axis 3D printer, a flip-digit clock, an NFC music player for kids, an internet controlled drawbot, NeoPixel optocouplers, gesture controlled LEDs, and the joys of gaffer tape. 

This week on Maker Update, an interactive geodesic dome, wire bending animatronics, an ornament printing ornament, motion machines, an eye tracking eye, a unique wire straightener, and a closer look at different types of E6000.

This week on Maker Update, servo-powered flip digits, an animated GIF photo booth, remote controlled LED eyes, a pair of ping pong launchers, soldering brass rod, interactive Totoro, and an F-clamp that can roll.

This week on Maker Update, cardboard trees for cats, an LED pixel clock, a pocket disco, Molecules for your neck, a light river for your kitchen, a solar heart, and an 8-player NES.

This week on Maker Update, an Arduino snowflake, a hands-free cookie dispenser, building a big telescope, networked nightlights, budget robots, and the gamification of your couch.

Hey I’m Donald Bell for Maker Project Lab and in this video we’re going to take a look inside the new Amazon Echo Alexa-compatible version of the Big Mouth Billy Bass talking fish. I got this for around $40 on Amazon. I’ll leave a link in the video description, but you may want to watch this whole video and hear my opinion before picking one up.

This week on Maker Update, an LED screen guitar, the Pi 3 Model A+, VLC for Raspbian, Kodak’s 3D Printer, a Pizza Slice Stream Controller, making Lithopanes, and testing servos.

This week on Maker Update, a dance-activated sampler, MegaBots goes open source, a futuristic bike light, a vertical turntable, 5 ways to upcycle old filament reels, edge banding with Bob, Mitre Saw with Diresta, and controller hacking for a great cause.