In Bloom [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a fiber optic starry ceiling, confetti shoes, workshop inspiration, and lamps that look like artichokes and butterflies.
Guest host: Becky Stern
https://beckystern.com/
Within Constraints [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, a book-actuated lamp, big caliper energy, reviving old power banks, injection molding, space ship paneling, and how to debounce your circuits.
Magic Wheelchair Snakes on a Magic Wheelchair Plane [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, the perfect costume for a jet-setter, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2, a real PKE Meter, cleaner air, plamps, and how to get the toothpaste back in the tube.
Roll-Top Puzzle Podium [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a rolltop puzzle table, 4D Printed robots, A spit-flap flip clock, dichroic lamps, CNC vs laser death matches, and how to make your design a little less dumb.
Schooner or Later [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a boat that won’t stop, rebuilding the future, cataclysmic dioramas, DIN rails, rotary encoders and nimble squirrels.
Thank You for Being a Friend [Maker Update #176]
This week on Maker Update: a robot friend, flying birds, Sith jewelry, lockdown gardening, and maker marathons.
This week’s guest host is Sophy Wong:
https://sophywong.com/
Something in the Air [Maker Update #131]
This week on Maker Update, a desktop air tester, a drill press table lift, art from particle collisions, working with black & white TVs, EL Neon, and diffraction finishes for 3D prints.
Ornithopter Anatomy [Maker Update #121]
This week on Maker Update, an open source ornithopter, a self-solving Rubik’s cube, a farting baseball, a Pi piano light show, a Lithophane lamp, and turning wood on a table saw.
Sound Off [Maker Update #113]
This week on Maker Update, multi-channel audio on the cheap, the future of Fritzing, GPIO Zero, a laser cut kaleidescope, and digging, climbing, cooking, or shredding your way to a high score.
All the Angles [Maker Update #62]
This week on Maker Update, gift-worthy projects including an RC Ladybug, high-tech puzzle box, firefly jar Bluetooth speakers, and a foam core constellation lamp. This week’s Cool Tool is a Digital Angle Ruler.