This week on Maker Update: sampling the real world using AI, an XRP modding contest, Neopixel party bike, and a laser cut reactor lamp with sound effects.

This week on Maker Update: a necklace with a staring problem, a laser powered mosquito swatter, moire play, and a giant 3D printed mechanical hand.

This week on Maker Update: top shelf industrial design, a series of tubes, solder paste ejectors, and quantity over quality.

This week on Maker Update, roll your own virtual reality gloves, an LED snowboard, a ferrofluid Bluetooth speaker, an animatronic webcam, spinning lights and blinking pixels.

This week on Maker Update: an autonomous beach-roving art bot, Kickstarter wants your ideas, a project that makes kits for other projects, GUIs for Raspberry Pi, stipple ceramics, and I’ll show you why digital calipers are cool (and why you should buy them here: http://amzn.to/2ov1YJU).