This week on Maker Update: the cutest useless robot, beach cleanup with computer vision, Geneva drive zoetrope, and a servo-controlled VR telepresence camera.

This week on Maker Update: a nightstand with a special touch, a flip-dot display for your Spotify playlist, an election countdown clock, and a brushless motor business card.

This week on Maker Update: putting your crutches into high gear, Rome’s Call for Makers, hacking business cards, glowing looms, and the mother of all Roombas.

This week on Maker Update, a soap-vomiting unicorn, two new boards from Arduino, a mini marblevator, a neopixel thumb war, pool noodle box bots, gendered razor holders, Lego pinball, an Android tape deck, a business card stylophone, Hobart’s entry level MIG welder, the Voronator, and the Adafruit Crickit. This week’s Cool Tool is the Hobart Handler 140 MIG Welder.