This week on Maker Update: the latest in lightsaber tech, a new batch of CNC tools, a drippy dress, and a time traveler’s timepiece.

This week on Maker Update, sending pixels down the tubes, a workbench that fits any lifestyle, thin-film optical filters, party parrots, alien crystals, and escape rooms for introverts.

This week on Maker Update, Blade Runner binoculars, setbacks at Glowforge, custom zipper pulls, JOY pads, and colorized laser engraving. This week’s Cool Tool is the Canary Corrugated Cardboard Cutter.

This week on Maker Update, a kid turns his locker into soda vending machine, a serious word on laser cutter fumes, printing GIFs into books, string launchers, a breadboard/Arduino/LEGO brick mashup, contests ending on Instructables, and why I’m flying to Iowa.  SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE