This week on Maker Update: voice activated Pikachu, recreational macrodata refinement, and an optical illusion you can 3D print.

This week on Maker Update: pressing all the buttons, ramping up your phone distractions, flipping through the days, and a portrait by the numbers.

This week on Maker Update: Bob’s bobble head, machine learning for quirky droids, a laptop with a side of soldering iron, and an easy recipe for haunted mirrors.

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

I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.

This week on Maker Update: bringing origami to life, Lego lets go of Mindstorms, taking your dragon up a notch, pedaling puppets, and waterproofing your mermaid tech.

This week on Maker Update, meals on wheels, Prusa goes big, Alexa Wheatley, a PC tower tavern, and fortune telling with a quantum computer.

This week on Maker Update: a supersized BMO, the return of Maker Faires, a new life for soda cans, wooden robots, gift guides, and a collection of fish friendly filaments.

This week on Maker Update, a shelf clock, making a difference with COVID-19, a face tracking robot head, an illuminated book nook, and the MagPi goes half off.

This week on Maker Update, casting eyes, a chocolate vending machine made from LEGOs, 2001 cosplay, wi-fi baby, feeding No Face, and handmade sprockets.