This week on Maker Update: a life sized toy boat, a coffee maker that runs Crysis, styrene astromechs, and an animation with all the feels.

This week on Maker Update: gizmos and greeblies galore, a sidesaddle bicycle, t-shirt quilts and SLA screen printing.

This week on Maker Update: capturing lightning in a bottle, a finger-tapping automaton, making your perfect sketchbook, tough relays, hand-wavey details, and turning a logo into an animated sculpture.

+Show Notes [Maker Update Ep.333]+

=Project of the Week=

0:31
Firefly Lantern by Electroboom
https://youtu.be/iJGPMMMn8VU

=More Projects=

2:57
Typing Automaton by Uri Turchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-KpGYG83E

3:49
LED Wave Array LuLabs
https://lulabs.net/electronics/ledwave/

4:30
Turning a Logo into an Animated Sculpture by JBV Creative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKzX03VIRgs

=Tips & Tools=

5:31
Making Sketchbooks by Eric Strebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtqqxQ9RcBE

6:14
Tough Relay by Digital Loggers
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5718

6:46
Fantastic Fabrics by Kitty Yeung, Jen Colstillo and bleeptrack
https://makezine.com/projects/design-your-own-fantastic-fabrics/

7:36
Keep Your Clamps Oiled by Jimmy Diresta
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2TRLtC_RCfY

=Digi-Key Spotlight=

8:00
What is Matter? by Shawn Hymel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIEfih9bl0

This week on Maker Update: a maritime matrix, an LED katana, a Nerf dart that fires itself, and a floppy disc with its own file browser.

This week on Maker Update, a 15 horsepower 3d print, a solar powered art bot, turning good ideas into great ones, flip top coffee tables, and putting CAD into the Blender.

This week on Maker Update, a 3D printed Starman helmet, a beating heart, an Adabot solder helper, a disco band camp jacket, emulating Magic Cap, and an early look at BrainCraft.

This week on Maker Update, stop motion with Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA’s $99 AI board, Game Burgers, Lissajous Jukebox, StreetWriter, Ping Pong clock, and a laser cut turntable cabinet.

This week on Maker Update, a 100 foot slip and slide, two kinds of zoetrope, an open source test tube rocker, car lock pinball, a new issue of Make, diffusing LEDs, and a chance to win one of my favorite maker books.

This week on Maker Update, a MIDI compatible music box, alternative controller indie games at GDC, an Arduino for your knife, controlling your computer with zombie heads, free game developer software, and Hackspace issue 5. This week’s Cool Tool is the Makey Makey Kit.

The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a wonderfully outrageous, high tech fantasy land where corporations like Microsoft, Facebook, Sony and Google, hold court with their latest zombie-blasting simulators and VR headsets. But it has a secret.

Off in the back (technically in a whole separate building), away from the buzz and hustle of the main show floor, is a small cluster of 20 curated, one-of-a-kind games under a banner labeled “alt.ctrl”. Here, the creators of these games encourage people to come over and play their project. They call themselves Developers, but I see them as Makers like myself. People who take their fun from mixing equal parts Art and Engineering.