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.

This week on Maker Update, a Jedi-worthy lightsaber, Kickstarter’s test print, an iFixit giveaway, a musical dodecahedron, sound bending, disc shooting, MIDI motors, and stringy plotters.

This week on Maker Update, Ghost Rider, Prop-Maker, Particle Mesh boards, Simone’s Calendar, defeating DRM, MIT’s Fiberbots, an open source cat, and a library of printable Lego bricks.

This week on Maker Update, your own Banksy art shredder, the new Pi TV HAT, the CAD of soda bottles, a wearable touchscreen computer, a 3D printed doorman, a location aware MP3 player, and a sand table drawbot.

This week on Maker Update, portable Skeeball, the return of Blimpduino, a reanimated zombie hand, a Raspberry Pi robot with expanding wheels, toy cars for the apocalypse, superglues compared, a balloon engine for Lego, and a $250 resin printer.

Nicole Smith (aka Penolopy Bulnick on Instructables) talks with Donald Bell about her recent projects.