This week on Maker Update: a new take on stage lighting, a remote controlled smoke grenade, homebrew sofubi, and I want my cat TV.

This week on Maker Update: assume the party submission position, how to build a project bigger than you, robotic hands, and the wild history of blue LEDs.

This week on Maker Update: kicking whole grain into high gear, 1-D fireworks three different ways, a game with 1000 LEDs, and a one-handed solder solution.

This week on Maker Update: a modular cyberdeck, a clock that runs on marbles, a Faz-Wrench, and a backpack for bots.

This week on Maker Update: the art of conversation, Halloween contest season, a tombstone with a twist, and a bright idea on pet portraits.

This week on Maker Update, AI shadow stories, your own retro cable TV simulator, a relaxing cosplay project, and building your own toy robot.

This week on Maker Update: the Echo you really want, low riding’s new low, and the Huggy Wuggy you may need to make for Halloween.

This week on Maker Update: 90s toy tech with an AI upgrade, return of the cyberdecks, body bots, a Rubik’s cube that solves itself, and a pickup truck that writes.

This week on Maker Update: a workstation set to exterminate, a boat powered by ionic thrust, how to use an oscilloscope, tool organization, space fishing, and cracking the code of QWOP.