This week on Maker Update: promoting pawns, your life in pixels, a 1-button microwave, and weeding out the bad wires.

This week on Maker Update: a fanny Pack with all the hacks, a violin that doesn’t stop, RGB wood paneling, and 3d printed designs for 16th century technology.

This week on Maker Update: games that are fast, games that are small, hats that are tall, kids on the lawn, and bagels that surf.

This week on Maker Update: a chandelier that will blow you away, the call for Supercon, multi-dimensional Line Wobbler, and an updated take on the Halo Energy Sword.

This week on Maker Update: kicking whole grain into high gear, 1-D fireworks three different ways, a game with 1000 LEDs, and a one-handed solder solution.

This week on Maker Update we’re at the Game Developers Conference covering the awesomely weird, maker-made games of Alt CTRL.

This week on Maker Update: bikes made weird, the infinite text adventure, a 3d printed router lifter, the Arduino Giga, counting screws, and 3d printers for $34 dollars.

This month on the Adafruit edition of Maker Update: a beacon for lost keys, a peek inside Adabox 15, spooky pianos, gaming with neopixels, more pins per pin, and a single purpose keyboard.

This month on Maker Update, rolling your own slot machine, a robot pal, a mask that doesn’t hide your face, a brake light for your bicycle, and building your first game in circuit python.

Tool:

Makey Makey Kit
https://amzn.to/2JzJ7It

Scratch Games for Makey Makey
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=makey+makey

Google Offline T-Rex Game
https://apps.thecodepost.org/trex/trex.html

Disco is Dead game
https://thirdfloorgames.wixsite.com/discoisdead

MakeyMakey Project Gallery
https://labz.makeymakey.com/remixes

Transcript:

It’s time for another Cool Tool review. This time, I’m going to show you guys the Makey Makey kit. This runs for around $50 on Amazon and it allows you quickly interact with your computer using everyday objects. If you want to pick one up, using the Amazon link in the description helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.