This week on a special SiliCon edition of Maker Update a face-detecting shoulder robot friend, Victorian dress, a noisy cricket, R2 junior, wearable Gundam, walking with Wall-E, and a glove from 3D printed fabric.

This week on Maker Update: a knife-throwing robot, snakes with legs, the simplest camera slider ever, metal 3d printing, learning new skills, and a new spin on a classic tool.

This week on Maker Update, making bubble wrap sing, telegraphing your lunch date, a mesmerizing headband, and arm wrestling the left-handed.

This week on Maker Update: sticking the landing after 7 years, the zen of robotics, a cardboard house for cats, cordless heat guns, measuring radiuses, and go big or stay home for your 3D printer.

This week on Maker Update: building a bass guitar from scratch, a DIY Sawstop, taking the fun out of jigsaw puzzles, zip-tie channels, 3d scanners, and better living through electrolysis.

This week on Maker Update: a plastic excreting art bot, DiResta’s mini morbid mobile, glowing jewelry, invisible ink, and 3D printed repairs.

This week on Maker Update, from zero to robot arm, the return of the Hackaday Supercon, a 3d printed sewing machine, rolling tape measures, repairing threads, and printing glass on your FDM printer.

This week on Maker Update: ant-weight combat robots, Leia’s little robo-buddy, a pick and place marblevator, and vintage signs served up two ways.

This week on Maker Update: virtualizing your detents, the Raspberry Pi Pico gets a W, holographic jewelry, a time-warping Walkman, silent steppers and crafting a tiny miracle.

This week on Maker Update: a new spin on an old label maker, making skateboards from recycled plastic, a tapeless tape deck, and an eyepatch-controlled prosthetic tail.