This week on Maker Update: a blowhard symphony, a series of tubes, design for assembly, and better robotics through shoelaces.

This week on Maker Update: talking with your plants, 3D printed light sculpture, building a blinky patch bay, magic shutdown, custom gears, and a crash course on every Dremel bit.

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.

This week on Maker Update: a bicycle with all the magnets, a robot with plenty of attitude, better plastic for metal casting, CAD for artists, musical hexagons, and how to plan your first Arduino project.

This week on Maker Update, touching things that aren’t there, old lenses for new cameras, the value of reading the data sheet, slicer settings, exposure settings, tool settings, and 50 tips for stepping up your CAD game.

This month on Maker Update: a fully functioning midi instrument, Adafruit’s response to Covid 19, an easy-sew face mask, dropping eggs, Morse code, and Circuit Python en Español.

Jonathan Odom from Instructables talks me through his latest creation, a flip-top table that serves as both a CNC stand and a garage worktable.

This week on Maker Update: the classic bristlebot gets an upgrade, Eagle CAD drops a bomb, ASUS takes on Raspberry Pi, musical domes, hacked Furbys, vape tech, and Chi-town gets a big ol’ Maker Faire.