This week on Maker Update: a phone that won’t fit in your pocket, a railgun for grapes, Parkerizing metal, and staying safe when you’re on the trail.

This week on Maker Update: the solution to boring windows, a business-by-day, saving-throw-by-night table, a terrifying disc flinger, Acme threads, exploding capacitors, and the ranking of trashes.

This week on Maker Update, a mask launcher, Hackaday U, a Star Wars book nook, FlexBot, quarter-scale arcade, DeWalt’s welding table, and embossing comes to Fusion.

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